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I don't think this is (far) off-topic. People start looking for "alternative news" when they suspect that the professional news is missing things, skipping topics. I was just about to make a daily blog post:
..about WHY people wander off the range, into the alt-news. I had expected an Al-Jazeera story of Dec 13 to move up to more-seen news sites the next day or so, as others checked out the story. (The story is just an accusation: a bunch of bodies, Palestinians screaming they were shot point-blank, even killed "execution style".) Al-Jaz did not have the IDF denial comment that I'm sure is inevitable.
But now, as my post notes, it has gotten to a dozen news sites, most of them only read by brown people outside 'the West'.
Why wouldn't major news media carry it? This is what drives people to imagine conspiracies and bias and all that. (I don't, because too many are not carrying it. Too big for coinspiracy.)
Is is just that the IDF can shut down a story for many days, not just two, by simply refusing to comment so that the Times/Post/etc can't report both sides?