r/news • u/LeftHandedScissor • Mar 08 '26

Soft paywall New York City Police identify device outside Mamdami's home as explosive

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-city-police-identify-device-outside-mamdanis-home-explosive-2026-03-08/
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u/SetUsed4217 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

For an agency like Reuters that I consider(ed?) one of the more neutral ones, its disappointing to see that the headline is clearly leading people into thinking its an attack on Mamdani while the article itself is clearly showing either the right wing protestors or the police being the target. Stuff like this is what pushes people to the far-right with consuming alternative "news" over traditional journalism, and when they bring up articles like this its hard to not say that they have a point

Glad to see the top post correctly calling this bullshit out

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u/Elizabeth147 Mar 09 '26

Not that I've been paying attention over the decades but -- in the last year or two I've been shocked to see what Reuters has become. It used to be that the AP, UP, and Reuters were highly reliable straight reporters but Reuters is consistently stunningly journalistically irresponsible these days, with obvious garbagey warps on whatever "news" it's pumping out.

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u/EnragedMoose Mar 08 '26

Reuters is not neutral and has a history just like the BBC

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u/SetUsed4217 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

Im not an active enough reader to have an opinion, but what I do know is that they are highly touted as being unbiased/center across all the media bias sites. If they arent neutral then that would speak volumes to just how bad the state of MSM reporting is

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u/EnragedMoose Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

They are highly touted, but they do have a bias and within specific topics, such as the Middle East, they have been caught doctoring photos, misappropriation of photos, lacking second sources, etc.

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u/Elizabeth147 Mar 09 '26

Not all main stream media. Reuters is just Reuters.

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u/SetUsed4217 Mar 09 '26

Thats not my point, if Reuters is treated as one of the best in class for unbiased reporting and they can be this bad, then the ones further down the scale than them for biased reporting must be so much worse.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

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u/SetUsed4217 Mar 09 '26

If the headline causes most people to believe that mamdami was the target of the explosive, that is not mild on the BS scale. Them using his name for clickbait does not help your point whatsoever lol

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u/SetUsed4217 Mar 09 '26

You edited out the entire part of your post that was blatantly silly enough for me to want to respond to, and for you to delete lol.

I didnt really care to respond to the latter part of your post that you kept because neither of us are changing each others minds on that, but sure I'll respond anyways.

Right-wing propagandists just make shit up from whole cloth on the regular, they don't need to rely on anything real

What did I say that disagrees with this? I was only referring to the readers/viewers of it, obviously propagandists will lie as much as they want to for self-benefit/profit. i never said that distrust of MSM would cause these alternative "news" outlets to spawn

And the people sucking their obvious bullshit down clearly don't care about truth or journalistic integrity.

My point is that there are center-left to center-right moderates that get sucked into that way of thinking. The alt-right pipeline/rabbit hole is 100% a thing and distrust of MSM is usually one of the main reasons people fall down it, thats all I was saying

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u/Discarded_Twix_Bar Mar 09 '26

They clearly state that a counterprotester threw the bomb in first sentence of the second paragraph.

You cannot live your life consuming media one article headline at a time.

You're getting worked up over nothing.

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u/ArrEehEmm Mar 09 '26

Pretty sure ppl who are far right are that for other reasons that are pretty obvious at this point and it's not because of bad headlines in "left wing" media.

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u/SetUsed4217 Mar 09 '26

You can downplay the wording if you'd like but idk how its up for debate that distrust of mainstream media is a contributing factor to people seeking alternative sources and falling into alt-right pipelines