Hypocrisy
Rejecting the old maxim; “If it bleeds it leads” our media buries the suffering of Palestinians being slaughtered in Palestine, either out of ignorance or fear of commercial repercussions.
Even as subscriptions evaporate, for want of readers having trust in newspapers fairly reporting the real gravity of world events, which might otherwise restore their fortunes, our media instead reports in detail on the properties lost to fire in Pacific Pallisades rather than that of people lost to Israeli fire in Palestine.
With the fate of Mick Hall, the sub fired for trying to bring balance to western wire stories, burned into their brows, these gutless apologies for the once honourable craft of journalism are held captive by their petty salaries and mortgages. Even as the tide of history swings and journalists in other parts of the world rebel against the propaganda they’re made to pedal, ours keep quiet.
Both CNN and BBC journalists have accused their employers of failing to tell the Israel-Palestine conflict accurately, investing greater effort in humanising Israeli victims compared with Palestinians, and omitting key historical content. BBC journalists have accused the broadcaster of employing “a double standard in how Palestinians are scene”, given that it is “unflinching” in its reporting of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
A CNN journalist said he was shaken by the ease with which news lines that supported the Israeli narrative came out and that they’re not entirely the truth. And the New York Times was exposed instructing its writers to avoid the words; “ethnic cleansing”, “genocide” and “occupied territory” in their reports on Palestine.
Given that all media news reports published and broadcast in New Zealand come primarily from these same and similar sources, media companies here must be subject to the same allegations of deliberate bias and so open to the charge of complicity in the genocide and war crimes the UN and World Court assert are being committed in Palestine.
That could be bad for business too.
Malcolm Evans
https://chomsky.info/consent01/
https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/article/2876
To quote a Roger Waters lyric.
“And the Germans killed the Jews
And the Jews killed the Arabs
And the Arabs killed the hostages and that is the news”
Its a sad indictment of today’s reality and the effects of generational trauma, MSM also known as
“My States Misinformation” pretty much sums it up.
To follow the MSM is now to be wilfully misinformed.
I prefer collective punishment (including limiting food, fuel and medical supplies), war crimes, crimes against humanity (including incitement to genocide, including limiting food, fuel and medical supplies, deliberate displacement of a population in an occupied territory) to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
It is so much harder to deny.
And the facts are since 1967 …, just as nations should not seek to seize territory beyond their borders, accusations made should not stray beyond their orbit/limits.