Here and Here for sources that back up the claims made in this tweet. Additional source for backing up the number of journalists killed in the Vietnam war

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    The WWII number is ridiculous - are they saying that among the millions of civilians that died, there were only 69 journalists?

    The Vietnam number isn’t right either - it counts only journalists on the American side.

    Generally when you see someone claim that anything is worse than WWII, they’re not telling the truth. Even the Hamas attack wasn’t as bad as a normal day during that war.

    • mhague@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      Journalists being killed almost certainly refers to journalists actively reporting on the war, embedded in units, the ones with passes. They are actively linked to orgs so when they die they’re accounted for as a killed journalist.

      I think including every single death of a civilian who happened to be a journalist but wasn’t working as one would be too literal an interpretation.

  • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    This artificial Zionist State that proclaims itself “Israel” has nothing to do with the biblical Israel that the great Christian mass believes in. Get real

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    Israel bombed a press squad last week with all the right equipment and a clearly marked press sign on vehicle near the Lebanese border. There were no other people near them.

    The IDF terrorists could easily see from their drone that they were journalists. Yet they still bombed them. These are israeli terror attacks hoping to deter journalist from covering their war crimes.

    https://youtu.be/RIymozNfp4U?si=XPaurLdJgkO1VhC_

    Also this one nearly missing a squad of journalists is very a clearly Targeted IDF terror attack.

    https://youtu.be/tjtoslFkPm8?si=V_5LG-GcmJ3cTKz3

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    1·
    11 months ago

    During WWII American combat medics stopped wearing red crosses because Japanese soldiers would prioritize killing medics, which was a war crime. Seems like journalists might unfortunately need to stop marking themselves as journalists.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    11·
    11 months ago

    This claim is almost as stupid as thwt israeli delegation that wore David stars to say that Jews were treated just as bad now as they were during WWII. Not entirely as stupid, but close enough.

    WWII killed 69 journalists? Really? right there

  • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
    01·
    11 months ago

    Every idiot with a smartphone and a blog calls themself a journalist these days. Not saying killing them is okay, but the statistic in the OP is likely meaningless.

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
    01·
    11 months ago

    So this idiotic claim implies that among millions of Jews and millions of Chinese slaughtered there were exactly 69 journalists. Bullshit.

    Also if those same “journalists” behave like this medic did where he left injured person lying on the ground and instead took his gun so other person can keep shooting, am not surprised one bit.

  • speaker_hat@lemmy.one
    02·
    11 months ago

    ❌ Your 1st source is a “News” website, Qatari funded, called Aljazeera (Fun fact: Hamas leaders are now in refuge in Qatar, and Qatar pays them $ billions paying them). This News website cannot be used as a neutral source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism

    ❌ Your 2nd source doesn’t specify whether it was Israel or Hamas who killed them. There is no proof in the article.

    Your post is clearly biased against Israel and cannot be considered a source of truth.

    My condolences for all the people hurted from this war.