Xinhua News Agency, or New China News Agency, is the official state news agency of the People’s Republic of China. A State Council’s ministry-level institution founded in 1931, Xinhua is the largest media organ in China.
Xinhua is a publisher, as well as a news agency; it publishes in multiple languages and is a channel for the distribution of information related to the Chinese government and the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its headquarters in Beijing are located close to the central government’s headquarters at Zhongnanhai.
Xinhua tailors its pro-Chinese government message to the nuances of each international audience. The organization has faced criticism for spreading propaganda and disinformation and for criticizing people, groups, or movements critical of the Chinese government and its policies.
Their press freedom ranking is “Total Oppression” which means they publish whatever Dear Leader tells them to under threat of torture, imprisonment, or death. Not news.
When it comes to this conflict, no news sources are reliable. All western sources are verbatim quoting IDF and spreading propaganda. If they did this for Putin quotes we’d call them psyops. Virtually all “unbiased” media sources have completely wrecked their reputation.
The Omari Mosque was originally a 5th century Byzantine church that was built over a more ancient temple. It was converted into a mosque in the 7th century, then a Crusader church in the 11th century, and back to a mosque in the 13th century.
The architectural elements of the Crusader church were still apparent in the modern-day mosque, and an etching of a Jewish menorah on a mosque column, believed to have been originally part of an ancient synagogue, was once documented, and was destroyed in recent decades.
All that history- gone.
Edit: If you want some perspective, this mosque was from the century before the Buddhas that the Taliban destroyed.
Thanks you for posting this. I tried searching for this story on Google News to find a reputable source and I couldn’t find one. This was yesterday morning. There were about 12 sources, all obscure, with the only one I’ve heard of being the Hindustan Times (and I really have no idea their quality).
So before we give anyone a hard time for doubting this source, just recognize that at least when this was posted, it was suspiciously lacking any legit sources.
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THIS IS NOT A NEWS SOURCE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency
Their press freedom ranking is “Total Oppression” which means they publish whatever Dear Leader tells them to under threat of torture, imprisonment, or death. Not news.
How’s this for a source?: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/09/1218384968/mosque-gaza-omari-israel-hamas-war
Or is NPR “Total Oppression”?
NPR is a fine source. The US has press freedom. They’re rated as “High Credibility”. You thought I’d have a problem with that?
Don’t post shit from state-controlled propaganda networks.
When it comes to this conflict, no news sources are reliable. All western sources are verbatim quoting IDF and spreading propaganda. If they did this for Putin quotes we’d call them psyops. Virtually all “unbiased” media sources have completely wrecked their reputation.
Thanks. Op should probably update the source to this one or similar. There’s no reason to link to a bad source if good ones are available.
Looking at their comments here, I don’t think OP is interested in playing by the community rules.
Propaganda is insidious.
All that history- gone.
Edit: If you want some perspective, this mosque was from the century before the Buddhas that the Taliban destroyed.
Thanks you for posting this. I tried searching for this story on Google News to find a reputable source and I couldn’t find one. This was yesterday morning. There were about 12 sources, all obscure, with the only one I’ve heard of being the Hindustan Times (and I really have no idea their quality).
So before we give anyone a hard time for doubting this source, just recognize that at least when this was posted, it was suspiciously lacking any legit sources.
You are doing incredible work, thank you for taking the time.
Thanks for stopping me from ingesting China’s largest media organ
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Feel free to point out something inaccurate in the article rather than resorting to ad hominem arguments.