I opened Liferea this morning and checked the "Iran" keyword search which is already setup. Apparently, Kuwait and Bahrain are striking back at Iran. Yet I don't see that news reported here on Lemmy and I'm subscribed to several world news communities. So I did a search for Kuwait, and one group does have one headline about it, Latin American Publications! latam@news.abolish.capital
I do believe war is generally considered newsworthy and of interest to everyone, but the only headline of it is in a Leninist group? I'd call that Mildly Infuriating.
11 Comments
eezeebee@lemmy.ca · 41 pts · 26d
Today it was your turn to post the news!
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 28 pts · 26d
So when seeing this lack of posts, why didn't you post it?
Corvidae@lemmy.world · -19 pts · 26d
Because I'm tied up installing a new operating system, with lots of major headaches. I'm just taking a break from it.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 26d
It would've taken you less time than posting this weird complaint.
scott@lem.free.as · 10 pts · 25d
Maybe others were busy too.
You're not entitled to anything on Lemmy. Be the change you want to see in the world.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Good lord, come up with a dumber excuse after a post like this.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 6 pts · 26d
I don't disagree with your opinion that war is newsworthy in general. Off the top of my head I can think of several reasons why you don't see the stories you expect to see though. Chief among them the fact that search on the fediverse is absolutely unreliable. It ain't Google when it was still good. Also, other news outlets may have different standards in terms of what they can report. They may need more sources, more eye witnesses. A search for "Iran" may be the wrong search term because there is a certain US politician who loves a headline and the media kind of like him for that. So there is a spam of stories about his unsuccessful deal making that will algorithmically obscure any other Iran content online. Or it might relegate military strikes by other but much smaller nations to a subordinate clause in paragraph #13 of a story with an orange headline. It also stands to reason that local news sources would be better, especially if this is a developing story, and that it's possible that it simply hasn't filtered through to English language media.
And more generally, war or senseless loss of life in general and the reporting thereof are not mildly infuriating content.
Corvidae@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 24d
Wow. Thank you for a well reasoned response. I do consider war and loss of life on a different level of seriousness versus lack of reporting. Perhaps this is a contributing factor to why some countries lack a free press.
laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
Which communities?
I might just setup my own community and sync stuff there from reddit
Corvidae@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d
These are some of the communities I was and still am subscribed to: World News, World News@quokk.au, news@lemmings.world, Global News@lemmy.zip, News, United States | News & Politics@midwest. I am trying my best to avoid giving reddit any personal traffic.
laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
Yeah some of these communities are annoying af. Like I would setup reposting from reddit and my account would get banned. Like wth. I know I tried to find us news and world news and all those communities basically banned me. I might have to setup a new community with more lax rules and lots of content.
Predalien@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 25d