Mondoweiss:
"The British Guardian has just published an extraordinary, thorough confirmation of what we already suspected — that CNN’s bias about reporting Israel’s war on Gaza is no accident, but a conscious and complex policy directed from the very top of the network. ... CNN is facing a backlash from its own staff over editorial policies they say have led to a regurgitation of Israeli propaganda and the censoring of Palestinian perspectives in the network’s coverage of the war in Gaza. You get the impression that CNN spends just as much time distorting the news as it does actually gathering it. Here’s a quick summary:
'Daily news decisions are set by a flow of directives from the CNN headquarters in Atlanta that have set strict guidelines on coverage. They include tight restrictions on quoting Hamas and reporting other Palestinian perspectives while Israel government statements are taken at face value. ... In addition, every story on the conflict must be cleared by the Jerusalem bureau before broadcast or publication.'
This is exactly how authoritarian regimes control their news output. [CNN insiders reported] that the network’s bias 'resulted, particularly in the early weeks of the war, in a greater focus on Israeli suffering and the Israeli narrative of the war as a hunt for Hamas and its tunnels, and an insufficient focus on the scale of Palestinian civilian deaths and destruction in Gaza.' "
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/the-guardian-exposes-how-cnn-slants-the-gaza-news/
-->Do you still believe that our media does a good job in reporting the news from Palestine? This Guardian story wasn't covered in the NYT, or in any other major news source in the US. The Zionists simply own much of our national media.
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Common Dreams:
"The nation's leading newspapers were under fire this weekend after publishing opinion pieces seen as 'Bigoted,' 'Islamophobic,' 'Racist,' and 'Reckless.' A Wall Street Journal opinion piece published on Friday afternoon read 'Welcome to Dearborn, America's Jihad Capital.' And on Saturday, The New York Times published a piece by long-time columnist Thomas Friedman titled 'Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom.'
The Islamaphobic article was written by Steven Stalinsky, who is a commentator 'on terrorism' and has served as executive director of the pro-Israel Middle East Media Research Institute based in Washington, DC. ...
Friedman's piece in the New York Times entitled, 'Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom,' posited Iran as a metaphorical 'parasitoid wasp' with proxies in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria as caterpillars. Friedman claimed, 'We have no counter strategy that safely and efficiently kills the wasp without setting fire to the whole jungle,' suggesting that the US militarily destroys the entire Middle East to annihilate Iran and its allies. He concluded that he could 'contemplate' the Middle East by watching Animal Planet."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/outrage-over-bigotry-islamophobia-in-wall-street-journal-new-york-times
-->Our major newspapers are not afraid to print bigoted and hateful opinions, maybe because these same ideas are held by our ruling class of warmongers and racists.
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Truthout:
"calling on the United States to 'end its complicity in the nightmare unfolding in Gaza,' U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday said he would introduce an amendment to remove more than $10 billion from the foreign aid supplemental requested by President Joe Biden.
The $10.1 billion has been proposed to pay for offensive weaponry funding for the Israeli government, which has killed at least 27,131 Palestinians in Gaza so far—including at least 11,500 children—and displaced 1.9 million.
'Twenty-seven thousand dead—two-thirds of them women and children,' said the Vermont Independent. 'Sixty-seven thousand wounded… 70% of housing units damaged or destroyed. And now, hundreds of thousands of children facing starvation.' ”
https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-moves-to-block-funding-for-israeli-weapons-as-aid-bill-looms/
-->Our supposed "newspaper of record" didn't even cover this story. The NYT was busy promoting racists and warmongers like Thomas Freedman.
"The British Guardian has just published an extraordinary, thorough confirmation of what we already suspected — that CNN’s bias about reporting Israel’s war on Gaza is no accident, but a conscious and complex policy directed from the very top of the network. ... CNN is facing a backlash from its own staff over editorial policies they say have led to a regurgitation of Israeli propaganda and the censoring of Palestinian perspectives in the network’s coverage of the war in Gaza. You get the impression that CNN spends just as much time distorting the news as it does actually gathering it. Here’s a quick summary:
'Daily news decisions are set by a flow of directives from the CNN headquarters in Atlanta that have set strict guidelines on coverage. They include tight restrictions on quoting Hamas and reporting other Palestinian perspectives while Israel government statements are taken at face value. ... In addition, every story on the conflict must be cleared by the Jerusalem bureau before broadcast or publication.'
This is exactly how authoritarian regimes control their news output. [CNN insiders reported] that the network’s bias 'resulted, particularly in the early weeks of the war, in a greater focus on Israeli suffering and the Israeli narrative of the war as a hunt for Hamas and its tunnels, and an insufficient focus on the scale of Palestinian civilian deaths and destruction in Gaza.' "
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/the-guardian-exposes-how-cnn-slants-the-gaza-news/
-->Do you still believe that our media does a good job in reporting the news from Palestine? This Guardian story wasn't covered in the NYT, or in any other major news source in the US. The Zionists simply own much of our national media.
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Common Dreams:
"The nation's leading newspapers were under fire this weekend after publishing opinion pieces seen as 'Bigoted,' 'Islamophobic,' 'Racist,' and 'Reckless.' A Wall Street Journal opinion piece published on Friday afternoon read 'Welcome to Dearborn, America's Jihad Capital.' And on Saturday, The New York Times published a piece by long-time columnist Thomas Friedman titled 'Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom.'
The Islamaphobic article was written by Steven Stalinsky, who is a commentator 'on terrorism' and has served as executive director of the pro-Israel Middle East Media Research Institute based in Washington, DC. ...
Friedman's piece in the New York Times entitled, 'Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom,' posited Iran as a metaphorical 'parasitoid wasp' with proxies in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria as caterpillars. Friedman claimed, 'We have no counter strategy that safely and efficiently kills the wasp without setting fire to the whole jungle,' suggesting that the US militarily destroys the entire Middle East to annihilate Iran and its allies. He concluded that he could 'contemplate' the Middle East by watching Animal Planet."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/outrage-over-bigotry-islamophobia-in-wall-street-journal-new-york-times
-->Our major newspapers are not afraid to print bigoted and hateful opinions, maybe because these same ideas are held by our ruling class of warmongers and racists.
=====
Truthout:
"calling on the United States to 'end its complicity in the nightmare unfolding in Gaza,' U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday said he would introduce an amendment to remove more than $10 billion from the foreign aid supplemental requested by President Joe Biden.
The $10.1 billion has been proposed to pay for offensive weaponry funding for the Israeli government, which has killed at least 27,131 Palestinians in Gaza so far—including at least 11,500 children—and displaced 1.9 million.
'Twenty-seven thousand dead—two-thirds of them women and children,' said the Vermont Independent. 'Sixty-seven thousand wounded… 70% of housing units damaged or destroyed. And now, hundreds of thousands of children facing starvation.' ”
https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-moves-to-block-funding-for-israeli-weapons-as-aid-bill-looms/
-->Our supposed "newspaper of record" didn't even cover this story. The NYT was busy promoting racists and warmongers like Thomas Freedman.
