What do you mean by 'just happened to forget', as if there was some ulterior motive? He's covered the conflict several times before and is clearly pro-Palestinian. They also did a long segment earlier this season about Netanyahu and corruption.
i mean it was a huge story of the week and he didn't mention it. it was very weird to me. i don't expect him to mention everything that goes on around the world since he mostly focuses on america but this was an event that was motivated by the american embassy move, to not even mention it was odd.
Main stories, with some exceptions (election results), take longer than a week to prepare, tbf. Who knows.
"It was very weird to me... it was odd..." -- Combine that with the earlier "american media is so fucked up and disgusting at times" and I'm wondering what you're specifically accusing him / the show of?
i mentioned it in this thread before, but honestly i don't expect anyone in american meria, even john oliver, to be able to cover it fairly. covering the story fairly would paint an absolute monstrous picture of israel and its regime and how much they're willing to do and have done to reach their goal of a jewish state, and being pro israel is one of the few things that is all over american politics, regardless of democrat/republican that seem to have differing opinion on most other issues. it would be impossible to cover it fair without pissing off a lot of groups and at the same time going against his pro-democratic views because he would also have to mention that the democrats just as much as republicans support the vile actions of israel.
i'm not implying anything, it was clear that american media didn't cover the gaza killings fairly, and just used "clashes" instead of saying "hey guys israel is killing innocent people just as we speak". that's a fact you can't deny, and it was something huge that happened this week, me being a big fan of the show i expected him to at least mention it.
i know that, i've been watching the show since the very first episode and i love it since it has informed me about a lot of topics, specially about america, as a non-american i've learned so much. in this case i guess my expectation of at least a small mention of what i thought was very important was misplaced
Gotcha - I understand where you're coming from (disappointment at the topic not even being mentioned in a show you are a fan of). One thing to consider regarding the american media is that it's pretty diverse. For example, the stories and headlines on MSNBC were about "dozens of Palestinians killed" and why americans should care about the protests, why the "US should not have moved the embassy," "Israel kills dozens of Palestinians," why the "tragedy in Gaza" is more important than our midterm elections, etc. CNN is more as you described (i.e. "clashes in gaza"), and Fox News is all about Hamas being at fault.
People and statistics don't seem to mesh very well. Sweden for example uses a system where when someone reports a sexual assault or rape, the police logs each and every time it has happened (for example in domestic abuse) as a separate incident. Suddenly because of this, Sweden is the "rape capital of the world".
Well Google and YouTube have inviolable systems that can't be gamed so what seems more likely is that many many republican conservative evangelicals subscribed to HBO for documentary movies and Mel Gibson films and organically and honestly found that segment to be less than perfect.
Comments appear to be disabled at the moment but that was my assumption. Still, it seems bizarre that this would be the subject they would focus so much on compared to other hot topics that conservatives (or in this case, fascists) hate anyone to the left of them discussing that would result in said dislikes; the Kavanugh video didn't get anywhere near as much disdain as this one has.
The comments are a hot mess. Just bunch of spamming FAKE NEWS over and over, saying he's got his facts wrong when they themselves have nothing to back that up, and the regular people chanting "Champagne Socialist" as if only poor and destitute people are allowed to be liberal, but in that case they'd be leeches instead.
