Media
-
Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
When US enemies like Russia carry out airstrikes, all nuance is thrown out the window; US media drop their standards and gleefully accuse the enemies of war crimes. Yet when the US and NATO carry out airstrikes, journalists suddenly have a newfound skepticism. Their language immediately becomes ambiguous, their writing unclear; murky passages written in… Continue reading
-
Corbyn can afford to sidestep the media but not their power By Des Freedman
The attacks on the Corbyn camp from parts of the British establishment have come in thick and fast – entirely as expected, given that his overwhelming success was partly predicated on a desire to challenge establishment rule. His resounding victory on the weekend was greeted by headlines arguing that he was a ‘danger to Britain’… Continue reading
-
Cops gun down un-armed journalist’s career
The story: On July 27, the LA Times fired their long-time columnist and cartoonist Ted Rall for fabricating a story of police misconduct. The LA Times’ evidence? A tape recording provided by the LAPD. Problem was, the tape was muffled—possibly tampered with. Continue reading
-
Media Were Already Running With Police Fantasy When Video Exploded It By Adam Johnson
The New York Times (4/7/15) released a video of a black South Carolina man Walter Scott being shot, casually and without apparent mercy, eight times in the back by white police officer Michael T. Slager. The media’s outrage after the video’s publication was righteous and swift. The state of South Carolina followed suit, filing murder… Continue reading
-
Leading Papers Incite ‘Supreme International Crime’ By Jim Naureckas
To advocate for war, as the Washington Post and New York Times op-ed pages have done, is to incite a crime–“the supreme international crime,” as Jackson noted. How would we react if leading papers were to run articles suggesting that genocide was the best solution to an international conflict–or that lynching is the answer to… Continue reading
-
Senior BBC official insists that all of Jerusalem is an “Israeli” city By Amena Saleem
The BBC’s failure to make a distinction between East and West Jerusalem, or to note that Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem — East or West — has not been recognized, plays straight into the hands of Israel’s propagandists whose aim has long been to establish Jerusalem as the “undivided capital of Israel” in the minds of… Continue reading
-
Editorial Position of the New York Times: “Thumbs Up for Gaza Slaughter” By Abba Solomon and Norman Solomon
Over the weekend, the New York Times sent out a clear signal: the mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable when the Israeli military is doing the killing. Continue reading
-
NYT Rewrites Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate? By Peter Hart
17 July 2014 — FAIR Blog Yesterday (7/16/14) the New York Times posted its first account of the Israeli strike that killed four young Palestinians on a beach in Gaza. The headline looked like this: That headline appropriately conveys the horrors witnessed and documented by the Times reporters. But at some point–around 9:00 pm, according to… Continue reading
-
Hamas wants to pile up ‘telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause’ — Netanyahu, on television By Alex Kane and Phil Weiss
Netanyahu: “All civilian casualties are unintended by us but actually intended by Hamas. They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because somebody said, and I mean, it’s gruesome, but they use telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause. They want– the more dead the better.” Continue reading
-
NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children By Glenn Greenwald
Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset at his treatment,… Continue reading
-
PBS ‘Expert’ Speaks for Both Sides, but Advocates ‘Excessive Force’ Against One Side By Aldo Guerrero
PBS NewsHour (7/12/14) wanted to “put the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas in a broader context,” so itinvited Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to consider possible policy options for “both sides.” Continue reading
-
Everything You Don’t Need to Know About Israel/Gaza By Jim Naureckas
ABC News (7/15/15) put a piece on its website headlined “Everything You Need to Know About the Israel/Gaza Conflict.” What’s interesting about it is all the things they think you don’t need to know. Continue reading
-
Human Rights Watch, taking Israel’s side (again)
The NYC-based organization Human Rights Watch, which has grown increasingly closer to the US government over the years, has sunk to a new low in the kneejerk response it published July 9, to Israel’s deadly ‘Operation Protective Edge’. See how. Continue reading
-
Why ABC Thought Suffering Palestinians Were Israelis By Peter Hart
“We take you overseas now to the rockets raining down on Israel…. And here an Israeli family trying to salvage what they can, one woman standing speechless among the ruins.” One problem: Neither of those images is an “Israeli family.” Both photos are from the Gaza Strip, and capture the aftermath of Israeli attacks. Continue reading
-
On US TV, Israel is ‘Striking Back’ By Peter Hart
Framing Israel’s actions as a form of retaliation is problematic, since the airstrikes, arrests and house raids are directed at people who had nothing to do with the murders. Israel has named two suspects in the crime, Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisha. As the New York Times (7/1/14) and other outlets have reported, these… Continue reading
-
Highly Placed Media Racists By Steve Rendall
Nicholas Wade was a leading New York Times science writer for three decades. He left the paper weeks after the May publication of his book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, a book many reviewers say is a full-throated defense of “scientific racism.” Wade’s views raise questions about his tenure at the Times,… Continue reading
-
Pirate Radio Station for $55 Could Help Decentralize Big-Telecom By Tony Cartalucci
Make Magazine recently featured a tutorial on constructing a FM pirate radio transmitter using a Raspberry Pi board. Raspberry Pis are single board computers that go for about $55 and are regularly used as the centerpiece for a wide variety of projects ranging from art installations to automation and everything in between. Continue reading
-
US military hacks the independent press
US army that operates from a secret base in Arizona, to start a war on independent media through hacking and blocking communications. Computer security teams cooperating with Veterans Today traced a pattern of attacks to Fort Huachuca, headquarters of the US Army Intelligence School, Press TV reports. Continue reading
-
News of the World hacking trial ends: Scandal still poses threat to Britain’s ruling elite By Robert Stevens
The trial of former News of the World (NotW) editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson and others connected with phone hacking has ended with Coulson, former head of communications of Prime Minister David Cameron, found guilty of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. Brooks, the former head of billionaire oligarch Rupert Murdoch’s media-empire in Britain, was… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 