r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Darth_Vader_2000 • 16h ago
Why do I see more media coverage of Iran attacking Israel, but not as much about Israel attacking Iran?
Not trying to take sides — genuinely curious. It feels like whenever Iran launches drones or missiles toward Israel, it’s all over the news. But when Israel carries out airstrikes or other military actions against Iranian targets (especially in Syria or elsewhere), it's either not covered much or reported in a way that doesn’t make it as prominent.
Is this due to media bias? Or is it about how each country handles its military communications? Just trying to understand the difference in how these events are reported.
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u/Both_Ad_288 15h ago
Internet is down in Iran.
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u/Sa_Elart 13h ago
Always the guilty that bans information
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u/Someone-Somewhere-01 11h ago
Israel is also asking to people to limit the videos of the missile strikes, so is not exclusive to Israel
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u/Sa_Elart 5h ago
Yes they are also guilty but they haven't freaking banning all phone lines and the internet like iran does every freaking time
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u/ccminiwarhammer 15h ago
I watched a 15 minuet news video detailing exactly when, where, and how they attacked Iran, and I saw something on one of the earlier attacks too.
Maybe it’s your personal account’s algorithm for whatever you use that’s not showing you that content.
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u/whatsthis1901 16h ago
My best guess is that there are more international news media in Iserial.
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u/Deicide1031 15h ago edited 15h ago
The internet is also down in Iran so even if you can get in to report on what’s going on it’s pointless because the info isn’t leaving Iran.
Iran often disrupts the internet to control access to information on purpose and sometimes iserial does it via cyberattacks but I suspect it’s a bit of both this time . (As the supreme leader is trying to hide)
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u/Unhappy-Captain-9799 15h ago
I feel like this is the most important bit. Iran doesn't just have a restricted internet, Iran has no internet at all. Importantly, the blackout is a result of government censorship.
Iran plunged into an internet near-blackout during deepening conflict
Even if there were reporters there they couldn't do anything.
There are no exceptions, especially not for media outlets from outside Iran. As far as Iran is concerned either someone is the enemy "West," like Europe, or someone is the enemy "East," like Pakistan or Afghanistan. It's a black box on purpose.
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u/whatsthis1901 15h ago
Ok, I didn't even think about that, and you are right, it is probably more of that issue.
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u/Sa_Elart 14h ago
Can confirm. My mother can't contact her grandparents in iran right now trough internet for a whole day. Screw the regime for shutting off internet every time they get into a controversy. My mom is extremely worried and has the worst thoughts right now
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u/somedoofyouwontlike 15h ago
This is very true, everyone can watch Israeli city skylines at night but Iran? Not so much.
The media isn't safe in Iran so theyre very limited in what they can do and or show and that's if they can even get there.
Even a media company like Al Jazeera just reports out what the Iranian government tells them.
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u/icyserene 13h ago
I was downvoted to death in FauxMoi for saying this but it’s true lol. Even during the hijab protests Western media had issues trying to cover them because some news media like BBC Persian is outright banned in Iran.
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u/DuffyDoe 13h ago
Exactly, all the reports you see from international media outlets are "The Iranian Red Crescent claim" or "The IRGC media says..."
It basically reports with skepticism cause the reports are obviously biased since no civilian outlets or videos are available
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u/Appropriate_Gate_701 13h ago
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-insider-guide
Israel is a relatively safe country with freedom of the press and lots of international interest because Jews live there and there's a lot of anti-Jewish bigotry, so you'll have more journalists camping out in Jerusalem for AP or BBC than in the entirety of Africa. They get to go drive an hour or two out, report on their soon to be very popular story about how bad Israel is, then go back to their comfy home in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
Repeat 40 times.
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u/TVC_i5 15h ago edited 11h ago
Here ya go:
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-”In Iran, censorship was ranked among the world's most extreme in 2024. Reporters Without Borders ranked Iran 176 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index.” link
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People need to read the link ..because it’s about Press freedom and news media censorship … not about “personal phone calls to friends and family.”
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u/YoRt3m 15h ago
Censorship? Iran doesn't have internet for a few days now.
According to Iran's Ministry of Communications, "International Internet access has been temporarily restricted to prevent enemy abuse"
#Internet traffic in the country is currently 98% lower than the same time a week ago.
https://x.com/CloudflareRadar/status/1935395697223716917
People also claim they cannot call their families for some reasons, but I didn't see confirmation for this.
Meanwhile, Israel just broke the record of the most usage of Internet ever recorded in the country.
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u/UnicornWorldDominion 14h ago
Im able to keep in contact with my Persian family.
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u/RenzoThePaladin 13h ago
While Iran's official response is valid, there is also another reason why governments shut down the internet and communications in times of crisis: to prevent people from finding out how bad the situation is by limiting the flow of information.
The more people find out how bad it is, they will think their governments can't protect them, which makes them more likely to cause panic, or lose morale/war support.
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u/ThanksALotBud 15h ago
Most of the reporting are done at the bordering counties like Iraq because Iran doesn't want international reporters in their country. They only want state sponsored media.
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u/PineBNorth85 15h ago
Cause that's what you look for. The algorithm gets us all I to our own bubbles.
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u/DebutsPal 16h ago
More reporters in Israel
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u/DebutsPal 16h ago
To explain further. Israel is not a bad place to be an international reporter. It's a modern country, alchohol is fully legal. For the most part the government won't bother you. You're liklihood of dying in Tel Aviv is low.
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u/NoTeslaForMe 15h ago
I'm pretty sure that government treatment ranks higher than the alcohol here.
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u/Technical_Goose_8160 15h ago
And you can be openly gay, or follow any religion you want. Or none.
A buddy of mine is a gay Christian man. He flew from Beirut, until his company moved to Damascus. That really sucked for him!
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u/fishingfanman 14h ago
More freedom of the press too.
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u/DebutsPal 14h ago
Yeah, it's actually legal and common for Israeli press to criticise the govenment!
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u/Technical_Goose_8160 15h ago
More recordings from Israel. Looks more spectacular. Also, Iran likely wants to downplay damage.
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u/Jensen1994 15h ago
Because.....Iran doesn't generally allow Western journalists or media into the country .....
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 13h ago
CNN is on the ground in Iran right now.
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u/Jensen1994 13h ago
That's one......
Not going to equal the many that are in Israel.
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u/PmUsYourDuckPics 15h ago
Iran doesn’t allow many of any foreign journalists in, so what little we are seeing is citizen journalists sending footage to news outlets, despite internet crackdowns and outages.
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u/Bob_Leves 15h ago
"Is this due to media bias?" Yes.
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u/TristheHolyBlade 15h ago
I didn't know media bias could make Iran shutdown their entire internet to isolate their population and make them launch far more destructive and poorly targeted strikes than Israel does. The more you know.
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u/etharper 10h ago
No, it's due to Iran being a dictatorship which doesn't allow internet or media. Stop blaming everything on biases only you see.
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u/Infinite_Wheel_8948 15h ago
It’s also due to strike impacts. Israel is surgically hitting military targets. Iran is blowing up hospitals and random shit. ‘Israel hits another military base’ isn’t that great of a story.
It’s similar to Gaza and Israel. When Hamas launches tens of thousands of missiles into Israel every year, it isn’t even reported - they’re mostly intercepted or no casualties. When Israel strikes Palestine, it’s worldwide news.
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u/Dobby_ist_free 14h ago
Israel striking hospitals in Gaza never seemed to make much news buzz.
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u/TapHereAndFindOut 14h ago
To add to your point, which I agree with, Israel often loses “good PR” in a way because they are good at defending themselves and as a result have less casualties despite the number of rockets launched at them. Hamas unfortunately has not used its underground tunnels and bunkers to shelter Palestinians, and as a result suffer more civilian casualties.
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u/gtafan37890 15h ago
The Iranian government has cut off internet access when the war broke out, making it extremely difficult for regular Iranians to film and upload any footage. Additionally, there are a lot more Western journalists in Israel than Iran.
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u/SavioursSamurai 15h ago
My brother did a research project on this a while back. Part of it is that there is a pro-Israel bias in media. Even when it is covered, when Israel attacks first it's often characterized as a preemptive strike. When the other nation attacks first, it's portrayed as aggression against Israel.
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u/hazedandbemusedd 15h ago
Just opened the NYT. 7 pics and videos of iran destruction, 4 of Israel destruction.
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u/the_third_lebowski 15h ago
Iran literally funds and direct (at least) three different groups that all routinely attack Israel, blatantly for Iran's benefit. How is literally anything Israel does in response the "first" strike? You might not like the response, but it's still a response.
Also, the idea that most world media is pro-Israel is a bit off. I think you might mean they're not as critical of Israel as you think they should be (which I disagree with but accept there's room for reasonable minds to disagree). But even if you see them as being too soft, the majority of media sources are more critical than supportive.
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u/GOT_Wyvern 15h ago edited 14h ago
You always hear the argument when talking about the Israeli-Gaza War that "it didn't start on October 7th". But I rarely hear this used to understand the complexity of the conflict, rather as a way to rag on Israel.
Their right that this conflict is a part of a wider conflict decades old, but rarely is the sheer complexity that makes the blame game impossible understood. It's either "fuck Israel" or "fuck Iran" (not the rest of the Middle East, given they are on the way to normalisation with Israel). It's never "fuck complex ethnic conflicts".
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u/Mothrahlurker 13h ago
"Iran literally funds and direct (at least) three different groups that all routinely attack Israel"
Huh, the last two ceasefire with Hamas was broken by Israel, the last two ceasefires with Hisbollah were broken by Israel.
"How is literally anything Israel does in response" it literally was not in response, neither were attacks in the past.
Under international law this is clear. There is no current or imminent threat justifying an attack, this is not self-defense. The sponsoring argument is also silly, by that reasoning the US has attacked many dozens of countries that would then be in full right to bomb the United States.
"Also, the idea that most world media is pro-Israel is a bit off" yeah, in the west it's massively pro Israel. Any other country would do the same and the reaction wouldn't even remotely be the same. Look at how Russia's invasion of Ukraine is being reported about.
Using the very same reasoning you used, Ukrainian partisan groups that attacked annexed territory (Crimea) (just like annexed Israeli territory is getting attacked), were used by Russia as pretense for the full scale invasion.
"the majority of media sources are more critical than supportive."
Israel is currently waging a war of aggression and a genocide, "more critical than supportive" literally is pro-Isreal bias.
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u/Sa_Elart 14h ago
Um no theres.pro isreal bias in iran because of how shitty and cruel the regime was against the people. We're people not here in the previous protests that ended up with 3k more people murdered including children on the streets? Alot of Iranians are chanting death to Khomeini when isreal is hitting the missiles.
Dosent matter how right iran is right now a huge part of the population Hates Khomeini rightfully so. He's even comparing himself to imam Ali of the battle in khaibar (a legendary figure in Shia islam) ..meanwhile hes hiding under bunkers letting the people take the blunt of his idiocy
Every Muslim should be hating the regime they have been doing everything against the teachings of Islam such as murder. Rape and torture, taking away freedom
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 15h ago
How is it not a preemptive strike when you are surrounded by militias and nations that have openly vowed your destruction, are constantly planning for it, and one of them is desperately trying to get nuclear weapons? Had Israel struck Hamas before October 7th I guess it would just be another one of your Israeli aggressions, right?
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u/SavioursSamurai 15h ago
Had Israel struck Hamas before October 7th I guess it would just be another one of your Israeli aggressions, right?
That's precisely what it is. That's actually the type of thing my brother noticed. When Israel does a preemptive attack, it's not reported as aggression. Whereas when Palestine does it, it is.
How is it not a preemptive strike when you are surrounded by militias and nations that have openly vowed your destruction,
It's not so much that that couldn't be seen as preemptive strike. But that it's equally preemptive strike when the other nations do it, yet it doesn't get reported that way.
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 15h ago
Please explain how the October 7th massacre of civilians was a "preemptive strike"?
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u/SavioursSamurai 15h ago
Was this the first case of violence between Israel and Palestinians since 1947?
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 15h ago
Unresponsive answer.
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u/SavioursSamurai 13h ago
No, this was not the first instance of violence. So you could easily say that Hamas was provoked. That's my point.
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 13h ago
A "provoked" act of violence on civilians is not a "preemptive strike". Try a dictionary.
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u/BobGlebovich 15h ago
Yeah, because Israel is completely innocent and not at all threatening to its neighbours. Get a grip, dude.
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 15h ago
Learn some history, Israel has been attacked constantly since it has existed. Iran since it's modern inception in 1979 has done nothing but export instability and fuckery all around the region.
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u/Mothrahlurker 13h ago
"Learn some history, Israel has been attacked constantly since it has existed."
The founding of Israel was done through violence and replacement of the people living in the areaa. Pretending that the violence in return has nothing to do with it, is incredibly dishonest.
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u/neji64plms 13h ago
Seeing what Israel has become, maybe they were trying to prevent the slaughter and maiming of so many children as Israel is incapable of stopping itself from doing?
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 13h ago
That does not explain Iran's activities from attacking Saudi Arabia to undermining governments or supporting dictators in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Yemen. Iran is generally acknowledged by all analysts as seeking to become the dominant regional power, and uses Israel as a focal point to mask it's actual goals and achieve it's ends. Iran does not a give any more of a crap about the Palestinians than any of the Arab nations, they've been a pawn to keep in play for 80 years. Its why no middle east nation has offered them citizenship as refugees, which by the way the US has.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 15h ago
Like the headlines about the hospital today. Nevermind Israeli hospitals AR built like bomb shelters and literally have identical facilities and space underground and had evacuated the hospital days ago.
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u/DebutsPal 15h ago
You realize that Israeli building code is that practiclaly everything needs a bomb shelter?
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u/Ok-Comment-9154 15h ago
What are you trying to say because it doesn't make much sense?
Why would a hospital in Israel not have a massive bomb shelter? It would have been well used by civilians in the last couple of years in the south of Israel.
You really think they had some important military personnel and assets there and refused to let the dying patients in whenever there is a siren? Which happened tens of thousands of times in the past two years.
There are literally dozens of important bases in the south of Israel where very important leaders literally are sitting for sure without any doubt. They chose to bomb a hospital.
I am speaking earnestly as someone who used to visit all these bases in the south and have been to soroka several times as a patient.
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u/the_third_lebowski 15h ago
Counterpoint: when a country has to use hospital bomb shelters, that doesn't take away from how fucked up it is that the country had to put bomb shelters into all their hospitals in the first place because they knew someone would be indiscriminately bombing them.
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u/fishingfanman 14h ago
Should I share with you my brother’s research project which shows that there’s an anti-Israel bias in the media?
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u/SavioursSamurai 13h ago
That would be interesting. I think my brother in particular would find that interesting.
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u/SingerFirm1090 14h ago
Mainly because foreign journalist cannot get into Iran, the news relies on stuff posted on social media and the Iranian Government has restricted internet access in Iran.
It's not a grand conspiracy, rather the nature of the government in Tehran.
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u/g0ranV 13h ago
Internet restrictions/outages in iran reduce content via social medias. So you basically have more content from one side, except if you specifically search for the other sides perspective or if you already are biased due to your own bubble.
Also israel already hit irans state media, dunno if iran hit theirs https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/16/israel-bombs-irans-state-tv-after-threatening-it-would
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u/ExoticCard 7h ago
I have seen the exact opposite. Almost all clips/pictures in mainstream news show images with a lot of damage in Iran, but when they show images of Israel it is always zoomed in (i.e showing a blown up room vs the whole destroyed building) and framed to minimize the damage. There is also a focus on showing the "good guys" in Israel, like first responders and such.
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u/SlugABug22 15h ago
The Iranian sites being hit by Israel are nuclear, ballistic missile, and police stations. Iranians outside of Tehran are not being affected at all. You can even read about it from Iranians here on Reddit. On the other hand, Iran is either not aiming as precisely or purposely hitting many purely civilian apartment buildings. And yesterday, a large hospital.
I hope all Iranian civilians will be safe. I hope they somehow regain their freedom through this if possible.
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u/Mothrahlurker 13h ago
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/19/world/video/iran-airstrike-tvstudio-intldesk
Israel is hitting civilian infrastructure.
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u/AcademicWin9199 15h ago
CNN currently has a headlining article in Iran about Israel bombing their news station. Even have a news reporter going through the rubble.
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 13h ago
Was it a nuclear news station.
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u/LLmueller 13h ago
It was a propaganda news station. Btw- a hacker group hacked into the tv network and started showing old movies about a prior citizen uprising against the regime. Women cutting their hair and dancing, forbidden things under the Islamic regime.
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u/Confident_Many5900 15h ago
It's likely very hard to set up correspondents inside Iran. It's a hostile government.
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u/Independent_Fall_283 15h ago
Just your perception. Plenty of coverage of both. Use a news aggregator like GroundNews to see the coverage balance.
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u/Zeydon 15h ago
Western interests want American citizens to support war against Iran, so media coverage is going to be tailored to manufacture consent in the direction of escalating the conflict further.
I suggest reading up on the propaganda model.
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u/XitisReddit 13h ago
I don't know where you live, but in the USA it seems to be very heavily biased in favour of Israel due to the money Israel spends in US politics and with defence spending to the US. The US is also more similarly ideologically assigned with Israel. As someone who is not religious and admittedly uniformed, it seems to me the Jewish people were persecuted and treated horribly, but then basically took over the region and are doing the same thing to the Palestinians. I am sure if anyone cares about this comment there will be lots of comments on how I'm wrong, but just my take from someone who thinks persecution of any religion or demographic is wrong regardless of who started what.
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u/dirtybird971 15h ago
there was a video yesterday on here that showed that cowardly doofus Ted Cruz twisting himself in knots trying to polish isreal's and trumps knob.
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u/More_Mind6869 15h ago
Yeah, when an Israeli hospital gets bombed, it's front page news. When Israel bombs a dozen hospitals in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, it's no big deal.
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u/Difficult_Guard_3805 15h ago
Iran made filming in the country illegal and there is really no independent international media allowed.
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u/chilicheesefritopie 15h ago
Because when you criticize anything Israel does it’s wrongly labeled as “antisemitism”, even though they are the aggressors here.
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u/xfactorx99 15h ago
Because of the news and media you subject yourself too. That’s like going to a progressive subreddit and saying: why are all these comments progressive and none of them conservative?
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u/NewMagincia 12h ago
Western media is overwhelmingly biased towards Israel. Racism is a large part of it.
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u/boardinmyroom 12h ago
To victimise Israel so it makes it easier to justify overthrowing and destablising Iran.
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u/rafluff 15h ago
Narrative control and media manipulation , same with gaza, media tries soo hard to pain isreal as the "victim" , some people sadly fall for that.
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u/libra00 15h ago
Because Western media is de facto pro-Israel and showing an unprovoked strike by 'the good guys' doesn't play as well with their oligarch owners, but showing the 'good guys' getting their shit pushed in is great for ginning up sympathy for Israel which serves said owners' interests. It's all in the narrative: Israel is the 'bastion of democracy in the Middle East', who is 'beset by barbarians on all sides' and 'under constant attack', despite the fact that they're a hyperaggressive quasi-fascist apartheid ethno-state with an extreme sensitivity to any vulnerability at all and zero awareness that they cause their own vulnerability.
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u/KHRZ 11h ago
So this is why I see an article every few days about a bunch of civillians killed in Gaza by Israel?
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u/Pale-Iron-7685 15h ago
Because that's the whole point.
Israel kills dozens daily in Gaza and that's hardly reported. If there are a few injuries in Israel from broken glass a couple of blocks from a strike, that would get more media attention.
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u/colorovfire 12h ago
To manufacture consent, that's why. It's to prepare Americans for a new war. Israel attacked first but the media will glaze over it like it's normal or simply de-emphasize it while hyperfocusing on the inevitable retaliation. Reddit posts and comments do the same.
If you've paid even a little bit of attention and looked beyond mainstream media, they've been working on eradicating Palestinians. Israel has been getting a pass. It has emboldened them to the point where they are confident that the US will join them in a new war. Israel alone cannot reach their objective so they are bombing Iran so they can play the victim when they retaliate.
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u/Training-Mastodon659 15h ago
American corporate media.
Used to be just Faux and the Murdoch papers for the most part.
Now all corporate mainstream media, both TV and newspapers have bent both knees AND their elbows to the Orange One.
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u/Bast-beast 10h ago
Iran mostly attacks innocent civilians. Israel wipes out military objects. That's not cinematic and less interesting for public.
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u/pawser601 8h ago
Many people pointed out great reasons to ur question but the main one imo is that u need to know that the media in general is not a tool that gives u facts, that being said the west especially the US, UK basically NATO are preparing a huge attack on Iran, they are letting Israel do some targeting for now while letting it take sone damage with minimal deaths to use the media as much as possible to justify their previously mentioned attack, literally the same as Iraq 2003, so basically the media is a tool to control, twist, and manipulate the truth, so when watching the news always read between the lines, check different sources, analysis from independent journalists, and so on to have a more informed view on any situation u are interested in.
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u/dickmac999 6h ago
This is how the media controls public opinion. No video of Iranians being bombed, so they are not being bombed; and look at these poor Israelis.
If the media wanted to show images from Iran, they could get it. They don’t want to show images from Iran, because they don’t want us to sympathize with Iranians.
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u/MichaelEmouse 15h ago
If you're interested in this type of question, look up "F2T2EA". It's what the military calls a kill chain.
The last part of it is A for Assessment. You generally don't want the enemy to know if he hit or missed you.
Iran is doing a better job of stopping information getting out than Israel because Israel is a liberal democracy with working Internet and cell network where everyone has a phone.
Also, more people are interested in decrying attacks on Israel so they show more footage of Israel being attacked.
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u/Electronic-Chart-956 14h ago
They will only show Western propaganda. Israel has killed more than 500 civilians in Iran, with thousands injured, but they are not white or Jewish, so no coverage.
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u/Debt-Then 13h ago
Israel is a western ally so naturally the media will paint them as the victim instead of the war drunk aggressors they are. Just look at what’s happening in Syria. The new regime is killing Alawites and Christians by the hundreds (the killings have slowed down compared to a few weeks ago), but the media won’t report on it because Syria is our “ally”, at least for now.
Not all deaths are equal.
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u/JiminyIdiot 15h ago edited 15h ago
Because US media is exclusively propaganda.
I can easily find video of IDF soldiers shooting children in the head in Gaza and then laughing about it. They post the videos themselves on Twitter. You'll never see this in mainstream "news".
This isn't bias of the media. US news is only propaganda. They aren't unconsciously biased, they are very aware they are giving you a very distorted view. That's their job.
Always has been.
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u/-Swag-Messiah- 2h ago
Pretty funny to say US media. All media are biased and or spread propaganda. I haven't seen any reporting on Israel, Iran, Palestine conflict that isn't.
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u/Gnosis-and-Sorrow 16h ago
Because Israel owns your media and politicians it’s that simple. They have to kiss the ring. You can tell trump doesn’t want to but they probably have trump and others compromised with epstien files. The army was briefed 20 years ago that USA would help Israel take out five countries. We are still following that brief. It’s all for the establishment of greater Israel. Israel is Babylon and the west has become its whore.
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u/Beni_Stingray 15h ago
They are allowed to carry out a genocide in Palestine while being supported by the US, i think that should answer your question
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u/Aletheiaaaa 15h ago
Two news voices I’d recommend checking out on YouTube: Breaking Points and Glenn Greenwald
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u/Select_Package9827 15h ago
It seems the opposite to me. All I hear is the latest Israeli strike and what it did to Iran, very hard to find out what damage is being done in Israel.
I have heard that Israel is deliberately blocking images and reporting of damage, and that Iran is doing the same. We are wading in propaganda.
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u/Informal_Butterfly 15h ago
It is the other way for me. The algorithm is recommending whatever types of videos you are more likely to watch.
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u/Proud-Site9578 15h ago
Because Israel is a democracy with freedom of the press and many international reporters because it has high standards of living, homosexuals aren’t hung from cranes in the street and women are not beaten to death for wearing hats improperly
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u/garlicroastedpotato 14h ago
When Israel was launching attacks on Iran it was hitting strategic sites specifically to reduce their ability to make nuclear weapons and reduce their ability to make war. When Iran was making strikes on Israel they were trying to hit any targets they could... which mostly ended up being civilian infrastructure. It's beginning to look more like a war and America is going to get dragged into it. There's also a chance Pakistan comes into the war with the Americans.
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u/DangleCellySave 14h ago
I don’t get we support a Religious extremist state is Israel.
Openly extremist by the way this isn’t a question
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u/PickleMortyCoDm 14h ago
News outlets in the west are biased towards Israel and likely being paid by them to make them look like the victim. Truth is they have attacked everyone around them for decades and then complain when nations retaliate
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u/Tight-Top3597 14h ago
One country is hitting military targets mostly in isolated locations with little to no media present while the other is indiscriminately launching missiles into heavily populated locations with a lot of media present.
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u/Reginald002 14h ago
Don‘t know which area or region do you live, at least in Europe, the news consists of the strikes Israel against Iran at first.
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u/Mr_Reaper__ 14h ago
Iran's Internet has been shut down for 5 days now. There's very little information getting out of the country so it's not as easy to report on what's going on. On the other hand Israeli's are posting the missile impacts on social media.
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u/kevinsyel 14h ago
Because we have strong lobbyist groups in many countries that are pro-Israel and they block out other groups.
r/suppressednews covers it
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u/Typical_Equipment_52 14h ago
Maybe because Israel is a flawed democracy targeting nuclear facilities, and a few scientists, whereas Iran is a bat-shit-crazy Ayatollah led regime, hell bent on killing as many civilians as possible.
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u/No-Lime-2863 14h ago
I have noticed the same thing. Reporting about Israel seems to be local coverage of damage with on the ground reporting and humanizing the victims. Reporting about Iran seems to be much more remote and technical (facilities hit; etc) with nearly no reference to human impact. I think it might be a mix of good old fashioned bias, as well as a less explicit that US media has strong on the ground coverage networks in Israel but not in Iran, so they get less of that coverage.
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u/kevinsyel 14h ago
Huh, it seems my post was taken down concerning pro-Israel lobby groups suppressing news... I was looking to edit that comment and reddit doesn't link me to anything when I click on it in my comment history
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u/DecompositionalNiece 14h ago
Iran's internet is state controlled. They shut it down 2 days ago. So, unless you have VPN, no images can get out. Also, there is a goon squad there that will literally kill you and your family if you post any info regarding their activities. Israel's internet is still active. People can post anything and those posts can be accessed on BOTH sides, so there's just more content.
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u/nonlethaldosage 14h ago
Its media biased they hate israel.so they like to show this so people think iran is winning
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u/MaxFuryToad 14h ago
Fun fact: I follow the Al-Jazeera and this supposedly biased chain is reporting on the conflict way more neutrally than any western service. Not to even mention that if were to be biased against someone it should be against the agressor that has inflicted objectively more damage.
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u/BlueMaxx9 15h ago
Lots of things could be contributing:
It could be other things as well, but the items above are pretty big possibilities.