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ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 9, 2024, 9:36 pm

https://www.medialens.org/2024/part-of-the-mechanism-of-genocide-in-palestine-the-complicity-of-mainstream-media/

Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 9, 2024, 11:26 pm, in reply to "ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media"

In the usual ML style, word analysis is prominent:

‘We found that “murder”, “murderous”, “mass murder”, “brutal murder” and “merciless murder” were used a total of 52 times by journalists to refer to Israelis’ deaths but never in relation to Palestinian deaths. The same pattern could be seen in relation to “massacre”, “brutal massacre” and “horrific massacre” (35 times for Israeli deaths, not once for Palestinian deaths); “atrocity”, “horrific atrocity” and “appalling atrocity” (22 times for Israeli deaths, once for Palestinian deaths); and “slaughter” (five times for Israeli deaths, not once for Palestinian deaths).’

Then:

A new investigation by Al Jazeera’s Listening Post team reveals testimony from inside Western media organisations reporting on Gaza. An anonymous BBC journalist, Sara (not her real name), told Al Jazeera that:

‘People [at the BBC] were terrified of using the word “genocide” in coverage. They still are. You will very rarely see it in any BBC coverage. And if an interviewee says the word “genocide”, the presenter will almost always panic.’

I don't watch TV. Must cancel my licence, money down the drain grrr

Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 10, 2024, 8:46 am, in reply to "Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media"

As posted here but I think I'm on the don't read list so it was ignored.

https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/1728377345.html

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 10, 2024, 12:28 pm, in reply to "Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media"

As posted here but I think I'm on the don't read list so it was ignored.

The subject in the link is different???

Inside Western media’s reporting on Gaza (inc. BBC whistleblower)

Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 10, 2024, 5:39 pm, in reply to "Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media"

"As posted here but I think I'm on the don't read list so it was ignored."

-Shit! Nobody sent me the list. Hang on...maybe I'm on it...

Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 10, 2024, 6:38 pm, in reply to "Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media"

Great poem btw.

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media -- TV and radio in the UK

Posted by Auribus <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Auribus' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 10, 2024, 4:36 pm, in reply to "Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media"

I don't watch TV. Must cancel my licence

Just incidentally, you don't need a licence if -

- watching ITV on demand
- watching Channel 4 on demand
- watching Channel 5 on demand.

- don't need a licence for gaming, DVD, Blu-ray or streaming.

- and don't need a licence for Radio. Even for BBC radio.

Thanks for the pointers Auribus. Appreciated nm

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 10, 2024, 4:56 pm, in reply to "Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media -- TV and radio in the UK"

nm

"‘People [at the BBC] were terrified ...

Posted by Mark Doran <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Mark+Doran+66' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 11, 2024, 10:30 am, in reply to "Re: ML: ‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media"

... of using the word “genocide” in coverage."

-- The Media Lens guys once made a terrific point about the way we are always getting another 'new Hitler': if memory serves, they called it a sign that the button has been pressed for maximum demonisation, which inevitably leads straight to comparison with the Nazis.

Something similar is the case with the word 'genocide'. Like the term 'new Hiter', it's a 'maximum strength' denunciation that is reserved for use by us exclusively (we the proudly democratic, freedom-loving US empire tyrannies). It's the word that legitimates any and every degree of economic and military violence in response -- whence, of course, it must not be available to any official enemy, anyone we would at some point like to sanction or bomb into a state of colonial submission. Thus on that morning in 2022 when Russia launched its SMO, President Putin referred to the genocide in eastern Ukraine ... and within a matter of hours had the word literally, explicitly dismissed by -- to my certain knowledge -- three of Radio 4's news turds, one of them uber-stool Nick Robinson ("There was no coup; there are no Nazis, there is no genocide"), and none of them possessing the actual socio-political rank that gives them the broadcasting right to summarily trash-talk a foreign head of state. But the situation is clear: if there was a genocide taking place, then Russia's actions (and more) would be justified -- and that simply cannot be allowed. Ukraine or Israel, you cannot have a western tool, I mean valued democratic and freedom-loving ally, committing crimes against humanity. Genocides, by definition, are what the other side does.

M.

Absolutely. Well said! nm

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 12, 2024, 12:25 am, in reply to ""‘People [at the BBC] were terrified ... "

nm

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