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miss gina, a few years ago i quit my job and started my own business. all i could find me numbers, maria. hi, my name is maria. i am a lawyer and an artist. i work in the hotel business and i have my own online store . the situation for women and mexico's for risk. the fact that 11 or 12 women are killed every day in mexico just for being women is horrendous. if several resources step out of the security situation has gotten out of the hands of the government, they are hoping criminals will kill each other. so organized crime is taken root in small towns, so people had to flee and leave their homes, go good. mexico has improved in certain areas, but issues like massage any and violence against women are still widespread. so let's hope that will change with the 1st female president. whatever they the candidates to have had to adapt to male dominated system. there are suit wearing
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women. so to speak, but women nonetheless, they are very strong women with a lot of character. we made our way as i started this device. for the 1st time in our history, we're going to have a female president. but to make sure this happens, we all need to vote. it doesn't matter who you vote for, but we need to obtain an overwhelming victory to the opposition. cannot say the election was great. being a man is still a privilege. for example, there are many top jobs that women can't get. so if we have a female president, a historic feet might help change people's minds to the postal. assume that it's going to be that doesn't serious. maybe some people might think the candidates are female. they can be manipulated, you know, many men would not like to be in a position where they have to take orders from a woman. it is very side, but that is changing. the younger people don't think that way. so much of the month
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. you said a young lady that i wouldn't romanticize the idea of having 2 female candidates, because at the end of the day they are the daughters of the petri arkell system. but i hope they understand the historic event this represents for this country sort of though, that one meant this bit of a guessing duncan's fumes for the next 6 years. they will be running the country so they should focus on women's issues. i hope this happens, but i am realistic, but i do hope they can improve the situation for women in mexico because this will be a historic event. you said 6 annual, etc. the kilbourne group and focused. and we will, of course, be covering the mexican election that will tell them on sunday, and that was a 0. that's it for me, sir. well then you for now, next is the listening posts which will deep dive into recent media coverage of israel's war on godaddy. the since is wales world, gaza. thousands of the students have been indiscriminately displaced,
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really forces are systematically targeting health care infrastructure. hospitals of one of the only safe options to seek refuge until they became targets from wages war from hospital. i remember seeing a soldier inside the hospital, alger 0 world investigates where the east ran is violating international. no, but targeting supposedly a new crisis. dr. silver on hospitals on i'll just say around india is now 4 weeks into the biggest electoral process on the plan. lorenz remote, he is everywhere on every channel, all over social media and his language is deeply devices. the i c. c. the charges against israel and tomas and the coverage that tells its own story. and have you read the headlines on gaza there, fixed it for the as the election now underway in india is happening on a scale. but no other country can match with more than 950000000 eligible voters
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casting ballots over 6 weeks. and the various parties spending a reported $15000000000.00 on their campaigns. the bidding favorite is prime minister now runs remotely. and his hindu nationalist party, the b j. p gunning for an historic 3rd term. india also has a media space like no other featuring more than 400 news channels. the vast majority of which do modi's bidding 247. and they stepped it up a notch, conducting an unprecedented number of interviews with the prime minister lobbying softball questions. his way funding in front of the cameras. and yet, even with all of those factors playing in the b, j piece, favor, moti and the parties are their star. campaigners of leaned heavily into what they consider their primary election winning strategy, bashing indian muslims calling them infield traders out to eat up national resources. it is dangerous language and it's being repeated over and over. because
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despite all of those interviews, no one is really holding the prime minister to account it is fitting that the world's largest democracy. india has the longest election process of them all over the 1st 4 weeks of voting. and with about a week to go and unexpectedly low turn out suggests that for prime minister and the rent for moti and his party, the b j. p. things are not going according to plan. one sure sign of the prime minister who has spent 10 years in office, mostly avoiding interviews with the mainstream media. he's spending more time with journalists than ever before. 5 minutes, the movie very gets interviews. he does not forward press conferences, how ever from the 31st of march to the 14th of may give 41 interviews,
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which is quite the place. what these interviews do is may came front and set them on television channels in newspapers to remind people of his grandma and his appeal . the pgp knows that mister moody is its best trump card when it comes to elections because he does better when it comes to national elections as compared to the state of nexus. the reason being that investment elections, mr. morgan is the fees that they're projecting. so you maximize the visibility of your best performer? can i be very blunt? these interviews are nothing but sort of unpaid, political advertising designed to project the prime minister to a wide audience. so i brought up a subset of playing it the hey, of do not give you something to put in a time or cheese, but by 8 or not go up like the ball will be what i bought to oscar. he was the local mess. who's got there?
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the questions, i'm not searching the challenging but that they don't deal with the obvious problems that have come up and mr. movies, tell me a record that i'm the follow up questions very. and when he got we've been rented, we have been friends running whatever indian journalists could argue, that they're just out of practice after a decade of struggling to get access to the prime minister. they're now frequent exchanges with him, while present it as spontaneous and unscripted appear to have been anything by john hopkins for the vast majority of india. news outlets including almost all of the $42047.00 news channels are explicitly promo for reasons ranging from the ideological to the pragmatic. in such a crowded media space, most outlets have come to depend on revenue from government advertising, which to be j. p controls,
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media owners often own diversified conglomerates. there are other companies do business with b, j, p, government, in new delhi, and in various states. so it is in their interest to be in the party is good. and to many news organizations to mention that have been critical of moody have landed in legal trouble with the government, including the taxes or the selection of our lab cent interviewer, as low to choose us to talk to their for can be as revealing as the questions those interviewers do or do not ask me how to get some of the names that come to mind. i really feel because the assets from tv 18, i think i'll come by or from our times now or the swami from really popular government, not those from india to the other outlets such as
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n i c. i watched out any news that was drawn to interviews, there was some national dealings as well in the san dimas, in times of india and a couple of significant vision of the media outlets. none of these interviews are being drawn to anyone who was known to be able to critic of the government or prime minister. and i wondered as the prime minister about his daily routine and what time he wakes up and what he eats for breakfast or how he maintains his energy to the data. tedious journalist should be asking about the problems of unemployment. the problems of jobless roles, price rise, and inflation. the fact that there are people in his body that continually played the rest of the rising politics on the ground. people who have been convicted of acts of terrorism who remain members of his part to get what he thinks about that. these are questions to ask the prime minister of the country, write
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a record of his dom for the rest itself. the ground was uh, pretty clearly established because it cannot be that you don't have follow up questions about the cutoff philadelphia one line if the other day. the fact is that today there is not a single chapel that is willing to buck the trend. all of these outlets in english can be all in different reason. the languages are sold, the whole into the government and so much in all mr movie that you didn't have any kind of serious question. there have been rhetoric sections midst all of the soft falls, a few hard heating questions, most notably about the unmistakable turn taken by moti ends. it'd be j. p in their election message to explicit, most of them batch split up name with a model that just came out the wood sped. yeah. no but jump it up in a while. just keep tabs of those on mad honor. do you send me a pull?
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the how do the use i'm supposed to be get be going to get this pulled up a, a really good job. but when we go back to the interviewer, could have reminded most of some of his other campaign speeches containing coded rogatories language like that that has been long used to describe indian muslims. but she left him off the nor has moody been asked to answer for some of the ugly campaign ads. his party has put out. like this one, a cartoon depiction of ro, guntee, the leader of the biggest opposition party, the congress. feeding mostly to the point where they out grow other minority groups in india and rule the roost. basically making claims that the congress wants to see his private wealth and redistributed among the slips. and he has been citing these claims to the congress is election manifesto. now if you look at the congress has
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election manifesto these 2 claims to know what the future in, in, in that document. but whenever more the speak set, an election valley argues, speaks as an, in an interview. these are broad teams that he has been focusing on a job in the past. the, this has sort of become though main blank, major blank of the media is tempe, and design mr. movie himself. his own political campaign has gone back to or troops of the can do right, where they are trying to sort of create a polarizing image of the opposition as a group of rag died, coalition foxy's that's going to eliminate or going to side line the majority in those, so that's been a very clear shift in message of the b b from the beginning of the election. the fact that he's gone back to the or sort of troops of him move up politics signifies the need for the b g, b to ensure that the base is not in the state of the civic in the 10 years under
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run from bodies room, according to the reporters without borders press freedom in india song from 140 s to 159 out of the 180 countries on fabulous with back track record. it takes a special kind of goal to say, as moody did last week, that his prior reluctance to get into and his continued refused to hold even a single press. congress is because of a quote, lack of neutrality in the indian media. media are the border. there is such a lack, but it works in modi's phase for that and then not against to suggest otherwise does not inform indian voters. it leaves them missing for the agenda of the media is to ask difficult questions of those water box. and the whole purpose of living in a democracy is that leaders present themselves for questioning. and i'm not afraid
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to answer questions because uh, that's the way journalism is. what the work and such as news uh on tv. you do not have that and then get to the you have propaganda. outlets. things will get much worse. obviously, if mr. moody comes back to par, i barely watch television news in india any more. my says i can't bear to watch it . and once the may at each other all the time, it's sounds pretty much in the bottom. what would happen in another don't just more of the same. and as long as, as an audience and keep delivering, that's beside tools, right? there's a reason why india news television was on the states control the only 90 because it was a very false place to load communication propaganda, whatever. today, if you don't need to be government going to be part of the problem again the machine we just are. the bigger your business, the more reliant you are on the government for money, and therefore the more willing you want to do the governments building. whoever the
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government of the day made. this past week, the international criminal court announced its intention to seek arrest warrants for leaders in both israel and of moss. the reaction from tel aviv and washington has been fast and furious tara and alpha has been following how it all unfolds. well, this was an historic decision by icpc prosecute to a kareem khan. the 1st time the court has targeted assisting western by the leader . in this case, benjamin netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity. there was some unusual choreography in the way the announcement was made on went public before the arrest warrants were approved, which may be a sign of the pressure he is. and he puts out not just an official statement on social media, but also this prerecorded interview with cnn. we're not going to be swayed by the different types of threats, some of which are public. and so maybe you know,
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this court is built for africa. and for folks like putative was what one senior leader told me, the i think the prosecutor was talking about the intimidation. he and his office have come on the in recent weeks. but he also revealed how western need his view, the quotes, and the kinds of lead as it should. the few, while the icpc has had an open investigation into the situation in palestine for more than 2 years, con, chose to now are his focus to war crimes committed since october 7th, which has done little to modify israel. and if i've missed a context is place, i'm up the great anti semites in modern times. labor and critics, anti semites, is hardly new material for israel's prime minister. he then followed up with the series of interviews with us networks, which included this band conceal of threats he delivered on abc. i'm not concerned at all about our status. i think that the prosecutor should be concerned about his
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status reactions in the us have been similar president joy bite and called the licensee for decision outrage. us so many of service have pointed out the us government's hypocrisy in protecting, as well as i'm community, given how into the optic, they agreed to be arrest warrants issued for vladimir putin. while the media and political debate rages on about the icbc decision. israel continues to masika name and stuff, palestinians in garza, including and rough uh, which president biden one said with a red line. thanks. talked in 8 months of the war on god. the media coverage, especially from outlets in the united states, has been torn apart by critics, the repeated inaccuracies, the regards of taishan was really talking points. the striking absence of context, such failings can jump out at you because often they are in the headlines. copywriters commit all kinds of journalistic sense and sometimes try to justify
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them by saying that headlines need to be brief, but the results can be incomplete, misleading text. that is quite often at odds with the reporting that follows. and since many readers never got past the headlines, the misinformation contains there can have an effect on public opinion. one historian also rod has been on a journalistic mission to fix those headlights. she's been tweeting them out with stripe through annotations and critiques. her work has gone viral because it's so on point. we spoke with us, all right, about how in american academic has found her self control and a small but significant corner of the 4th of state. the world with headlines. my name is s, all right, and i am the historian of the modern released and since the beginning of this war and actually before this war, i have been collecting headlines the
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as a historian. i know how important narrative and story telling is. and the way that the story is being told in the western media especially, is not right and it's not accurate. the so i tend to focus on headlines because the reality is most people don't read beyond them. often use content is paywall or people just don't have that much time within their day to dedicate every topic headlines do, catch the eye though, and the shape the way that people think about the, the framing of stories on palestine. israel in the western world, particularly the u. s. has always been very one sided these headlines and stories. and the way they're written, the use of language. it's all deliver it and all intention. and i wanted people to see how simple change of words could improve the way the stories are framed in the
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journal isn't one pattern i see so often is headlines that whitewash israel's culpability. and war crimes by not even mentioning the word is really an original headline. from the new york times reads strikes, pound drop off flattening large long. and this is an older headlines since before the recent attacks. we're seeing the roof on now. there's so many issues with this one. but let's start with the most clearing which forces behind the strikes israel, right? so why is that not mentioned? it's an omission and that'll emission is not accidental because you see a pattern of it happening. event strikes. you could have at the 3 letters and made it very clear that they were in fact airstrikes. there's a mention of alpha, but no reference to the fact that it's in gaza that causes a part of the policy new territories. and this might confuse people who aren't knowledgeable about the entirety of the geography,
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but also the fact that russell is the last refuge for postings. and this trip is so important. i mean that's the reason why rafa is in the news. and in the headlines the 1st place, you know, there might be a counter argument that says, uh, well, all the details or what the entire article is for the headline doesn't have to give all of that away. but you see that the addition of just a few words makes it very easy to bring the context into the headline. and then you can explain the details in the body of the piece. but this headline in its original form. so problem not a because it attributes basically nothing to know why. you're not clear where this is taking place. you don't know what exactly happened and you have no clue who didn't. thursday's attack has been described as a massacre of civilians. under starving palestinians had gathered to collect food aid when they were attacked. so this headline was published after the flower massacre, which happened in february of this year. where we saw
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a really horrifying footage of palestinians killed while trying to get to the headline reads in k otic, seen, many are killed and wounded as is really is open fire, which is just an absurd way of phrasing what happens. so one of the 1st problems with this phrasing is it makes it seem like chaos is inherent to the situation because it's causes not because of the external forces. specifically, these really forces that are causing the situation. also, it wasn't a chaotic scene, it was a messenger. and to call it a chaotic scene is just an obscene way of talking about it. the headline also says many are killed and wounded. they've used passive voice to describe a situation with more than a 100 starving people. people who are being deliberately starved children is really forces open fire on them as they were trying to get food from the 8 convoys. that's what happens when you look at reporting from other conflicts, like russia's war against ukraine. you see the difference in language used very
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quickly. in this headline, how russia is using ukrainians, hunger as a weapon of war. you can see very clear the there's no passive voice. russia is named as the responsible party and the crime that it's committed by russia is stated clearly in plain english. also, ukrainians are named as victims. if you notice, i underlined that line a residence of variable ukraine because that's not how postings and goals are talked about. writers use cozzens rather than palestinians, so ukrainians in a specific location. a new cream are still called ukrainians. but in the case of gaza, too often, there are no references to palestinians. and this goes back to the idea of how not just in the media, but also in our political discourse. how sign is fragmented? that people might not understand that because the, the west bank, east jerusalem, they're all part of
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a palestinian state. they're all post to me in territories. and if you single out cause without explaining that they're posting news, you're essentially separating garza from the larger issue of palestinian statehood and liberation. and this falls into and is really pattern of racing, posting identity and posting in statehood by treating each of these illegally occupied territories and their people, a separate entities, people in gaza or palestinians, and journalists should call them that new share. a lot of headlines from the onion, it's a satirical new site in the us and their headlines are supposed to be a joke. they're supposed to be schumer's exaggerations, that sort of put near up to society and politics. and especially the way that our own media covers events, but some of the onions, older posts on this particular issue on israel palestine and the us as role in it. they almost seems like predictions we've come to the point where the situation with
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gaza has become so atrocious. but the audience headlines have become pretty spot on . this headline reads, nathan, your assurance critics. he still has the most respect for us money and the context in which i shared it was that nathan, y'all who had cancelled a visit buying his really delegation to washington dc. because the us finally didn't veto a cease fire resolution at the united nations. they did everything and this was back in march of this year. they did everything to undermine the resolution still by calling it non binding, but they didn't actually veto it, but need to know who it wasn't. so it said that he turned down to $3300000000.00 in tax pair of dollars, but the us is giving israel to funded tours. he was very quick, in fact, to thank america for that money. mind you this and i mean had like, is from originally 2015 when the obama administration was at odds with amazing young government. but despite those very clear disagreements,
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obama still handed his real 38000000000 dollar package of military 8 over 10 years . that was the largest of his con years later, the onions headline is still applicable because nation, yahoo is still in power. she's still subbing the us and undermining us policy and international law. and he's still getting billions of dollars, which is happy to get the when you talk about mask off gaza is really shred it anything that resembles the sort of world order that we had become accustomed to sharing western powers, especially the united states and mainstream media in the us champion for such a long time and they're still using that language. but with such an egregious level of the pop proceed, but everyone can see it now. and i think that's the part that's resonating with so many people with these headline corrections. the state of israel seems to be able
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to get away with anything, anything and not be held accountable. and the fact that the media so complicit in this process that it continues to whitewash israel's crime and parent basically, whatever the us is, official line is. it's a real application and it's, and these incomplete and accurate headlines for shipping help people speak. and that's where i think it's so important point the. and finally, the ongoing case against the julian assange may well have taken a major turn this past week. the by the administration is pursuing a science for wiki, lexis publishing of classified documents, exposing american war crimes, interact, and afghanistan. this week, british judges granted a sam's the right to appeal against extradition to the us to make the case that he would not get a fair trial there. the judges zeroed in on washington's failure to promise that if
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expedited assange and astrology and citizen would be entitled to the same constitutional protection that americans get under their 1st amendment. which safe cards. freedom of speech, supporters of assange say that this ruling provides more than just a glimmer of hope. it is a potential turning of the tide, but after 5 years in a maximum security prison in the london julian assange could be a free man. in a matter of months and then a case that has implications for journalists around the world. that's big news. what's the next time here at the listening post? the illusion of anti senses with opposition to design is its cynical, and it is harmful, a dangerous completion between the persecution of a people in the criticism of the state is echoing across the world news rooms to
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is really forces killed dozens of people across the gaza, including 15 people sheltering in the southern city of rocks. the time several venue is good to have you with us. this is else as your life from the also coming up is really ground forces lighting the results on the rasa flaming full operational control of the border area. with each algeria introduces a un security council resolution ordering israel to stop.

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