by Branko Marcetic, Jacobin, August 17 https://jacobin.com/2024/08/media-bias-sde-teiman-torture
*For the past two weeks, a sickening scandal around Israeli torture of Palestinians has roiled the country’s politics. Many Americans likely have no idea about it, because mainstream media is all but ignoring it.* . . . If you’re a devoted New York Times reader, you likely have no idea almost any of this happened. That’s because the paper of record, which has come under fire over the past ten months for its coverage of the war, has hardly covered the scandal, and when it has, has tended to entomb the news far beyond its front page, where most readers are likely to see it. This despite the paper’s extensive coverage of the sexual violence carried out by Hamas fighters on October 7, which it has received widespread calls for review and potentially even retraction after independent reporters found serious issues with its sourcing and accuracy. The Times is far from alone. The IDF rape scandal has fared little better across some of the United States’ top newspapers and cable news websites, where it has similarly either been entirely ignored or tucked away from most readers’ eyes. . . . What all of this amounts to is a depressing fact that has been laid bare again and again throughout this war: Palestinian lives and suffering simply do not matter as much to US political institutions as Israeli ones. They don’t mean as much to elected officials, who have enthusiastically used the murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians on October 7 to cheer on and facilitate the murder of, at minimum, tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians. And they don’t mean as much to the mainstream US press, which has consistently displayed more care, attention, and sympathy for the suffering of Israelis in the tenor, focus, and even language used in its coverage. Most of the US public does not share this double standard. But the media’s relative lack of interest in informing them about Israeli violence means many of them never learn about. # # # On Gaza, the Media Constantly Parrots the US Government Line by Liza Featherstone, Jacobin, May 26, 2024 https://jacobin.com/2024/05/gaza-israel-war-media-bias -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31683): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31683 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107956714/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
