Ciaran Conaghan

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@IrishRail Few leaves bringing things to a standstill. Get a grip!

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Celtic Park, Glasgow today

“30,000+ dead, 12,000+ children

End the genocide. End Zionism.”

[Pelham @Resist_05]

🇮🇱 Israel just bombed a refugee camp in Rafah… this is the worst war crime in modern history

THIS IS A GENOCIDE…🇵🇸💔

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@Shiraq10 Go Hawks

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@ThomasPringleTD Calling it far right is giving it far too much of a status. It's scumbags with nothing better to be at and without a political opinion kind...this was not retaliation, it was thuggery

[Leanne O’Connell🫧 @XLeighhAnneX]

Giving out about Ireland being unsafe when this is how the Irish people carry on absolute feral scumbags 😡 they don’t even care about what happened today just want an excuse to riot it’s disgusting

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

This is explosive and comes from a Tory Baroness.

Have a listen.

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@FabrizioRomano What a stupid tweet

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@naomhmearnog

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@donerbox92 @TicketmasterIre @coldplay Big time

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@TicketmasterIre @coldplay Ticketmaster need investigating @OireachtasNews. They have a monopoly of the market and are abusing that power. Very confident these number won't make sense if they have to explain them.

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

Get @TicketmasterIre in front of the Oireachtas to answer questions on how tickets were distributed for Coldplay gig. Such a waste of everyone's time. #Crooks #coldplaydublin

[Jason Byrne @moseyb86]

Tribute column to our own @jmcb212, and the GAA folk who always do brilliant things #GAA @KILLYBEGSGAA @Peregrinesgaa @dqfoundation22 @TipperaryGAA
https://t.co/e9ZXgoB3tu

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@BigDirtyFry @jimgralton

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@Ginley_10 @AnfieldWatch Morientes would be high on the list too

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@Derm_92 @Meandmygolf @KD94KEVIN Putter from the tee

[Ciaran Conaghan @conaghan3]

@ladbible @anthonyslowey_