The events in Gaza has brought the world to realize that it is basically a genocide against the Palestinian people perpetrated by Israel and their bloodlust and desire for more land to expand their fledgling empire.
Sadly the MSM has done little to bring the attention to this atrocity to the public.
For instance we hear about the IDF soldiers that get killed but very little about the civilians that are killed and maimed….they, the media, half ass report the actual news and use every trick in the journalistic playbook to keep us ignorant of the events the really take place….
Chris Hedges has written a piece that tears the veil away from the deceptive tactics of the media on this travesty….
The Western media manufactures consent for genocide. It normalizes Israel’s decades-long military occupation and apartheid. It erases Israel’s flagrant violations of international law. It perpetuates the fallacy of Israeli victimhood. It betrays, discredits and demonizes the work of Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza, at least 220 of whom have been killed by Israel between Oct. 7, 2023, and August 2025. It supinely accepts draconian Israeli censorship. It acquiesces with tepid letters of protest at Israel’s refusal to allow foreign reporters in Gaza — an effort by Israel to mask its war crimes. It amplifies Israeli lies, from beheaded babies to widespread sexual assault of Israeli women on Oct. 7, to obfuscate the truth.
When writing about Gaza, verbs are in the passive tense. There is no subject. No one is accountable. Genocide, it seems, is an act of God. No different from an earthquake or tsunami. Clichés and opaque adjectives such as the “cycle of violence” or “clashes” distort and falsify reality.
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought,” George Orwell warned.
Terms such as “genocide,” “atrocity,” “ethnic cleansing” and “occupied territories” magically disappear from media reports on Palestinians, whose resistance is routinely described as “savage” and “barbaric.” New York Times reporters are instructed by editors to avoid terms such as “Palestine,” “genocide,” “carnage,” “refugee camp,” “slaughter” and “massacre,” when referencing Palestinians.
The media slavishly regurgitates what Israel feeds it. Saturation bombing becomes “surgical air strikes.” Israel’s weaponization of famine becomes a “food shortage.” The killing of unarmed civilians — including children — becomes “clashes.” The hilltop fortress-like compounds of Jewish colonists becomes “neighborhoods.” Extrajudicial assassination of a journalist or a doctor becomes “died.”
I would say that Israeli PR and money is doing a fine job whitewashing their crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.
It is pathetic how the media will do their part to protect Israel from criticism….that needs to stop and stop now.
Did I miss anything?
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nothing was missed except a way to end this horror
Hugs
This year has really been the ‘pick a side’ year. And anyone who picks Israel is on the wrong side. Not just now, but long into the future. Every article supporting Israel, every social media post celebrating the IDF, every TV news broadcast refusing to mention Israel as the aggressor, all will be reviled as complicity in horror by future historians.
The BBC is right up there with the most culpable too. They have reporters saying things like “Twenty-three people died this morning in Gaza following the bombing of a refugee camp in Khan Yunis”. Who bombed them? Why were they refugees in the first place? I am completely disgusted by all of it.
Best wishes, Pete.
Here is my solution:
Stop watching the mainstream news media to rob them of their revenue, and publicly humiliate their “journalists” with direct challenges to their professional integrity.
Expose the MSM’s ownership ties and associations with Zionist Israel.
Share truthful reports of current events from well-respected and trusted news sources.
Do not vote for corporatist Democrats and Republicans, but do vote for progressive left candidates or anti-war independents or anti-Trump Republicans.
Express your opposition to America’s entrenched establishment which has been thoroughly corrupted by big money and special interests, and which couldn’t care less about you.
And, if nothing else, be principled in your criticisms. When someone does something good, praise it even if you have had disagreements with them. When someone does something bad, condemn it even if you have otherwise agreed with them.
Take a stand, fight back, for our children’s sake if nothing else.