Krystal Ball at Breaking Point news offers a penetrating look at anti-Palestinian media bias.
The way in which people and events are described in news reports tells us a lot about the prejudices, likes and dislikes of news producers and reporters.
In western media Jews and the state of Israel are generally covered very positively. Whereas, Palestinians and the victims of Israel’s aggression in Gaza are portrayed rather negatively.
Check out the evidence offered below. It’s titled “Study Reveals How Media Whitewashes Genocide”:
Caitlin Johnstone has another good media analysis comparable to the Chris Hedges article which I recently posted.
The corporate media in this country plays a huge (though not exclusive)
Caitlin Johnstone
role in creating the unbridgeable divisions that now scar this country, probably beyond repair.
Her essay is entitled, “This is Your Brain on Echo Chambers: Right Calls Biden a Xi Puppet as He Packs His Cabinet with China Hawks.”
Below is an excerpt, or you can read the entire article here.
. . . This complete schizm from reality, where you’ve got an incoming administration stacked with Beltway insiders who want to attack Chinese interests running alongside an alternate imaginary universe in which Biden is a subservient CCP lackey, is only made possible with the existence of media echo chambers. It’s the same exact dynamic that made it possible for liberals to spend four years shrieking conspiracy theories about the executive branch of the US government being run by a literal Russian agent even as Trump advanced mountains of world-threatening cold war escalations against Moscow in the real world.
You see this dynamic at work in conventional media, where plutocrat-controlled outlets like Breitbart are still frantically pushing the Russiagate sequel narrative that Hunter Biden’s activities in China mean that his father is a CCP asset. You also see it in social media, where, as explained by journalist Jonathan Cook in an article about the documentary The Social Dilemma, “as we get herded into our echo chambers of self-reinforcing information, we lose more and more sense of the real world and of each other.”
“We live in different information universes, chosen for us by algorithms whose only criterion is how to maximise our attention for advertisers’ products to generate greater profits for the internet giants,” writes Cook.
