As I write this, the latest trustworthy reporting indicates that Palestinian terrorists killed six people and wounded another 12 in Jerusalem. But not according to big legacy media, which refuse to call the attackers terrorists.
Media claim to have standards and practices that they follow strictly about this. They claim to only use the term when it’s attributed to government officials. That’s a lie. To see the hypocrisy in action, check out these headlines from the past year alone:
Today, none of the big legacy media are willing to call this attack what it was. Yet the United Arab Emirates wasted no time doing so.
In a statement, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs “condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist shooting incident which occurred near Jerusalem.” It expressed “sincere condolences and sympathy to the families of the victims, and to the State of Israel and its people, as well as its wishes for a speedy recovery for all the injured.”
So an Arab government is willing to say what the media won’t. Want to tell the media how you feel about this? Here you go:
Radicalized young people worldwide have grown up with an imaginary reality portrayed by the media — one in which all nations fight terrorists except Israel, which only fights “Palestinians.”
To dismantle this insanity, we first need to understand the structures behind it. These include:
rules that news agencies follow selectively
a shameless willingness to lie about internal decision making
false understandings of the realities of the Middle East
and more.
If you haven’t heard the episode on this, it’s time:
Part of what you’ll learn is what executives have admitted:
On this show you will rarely hear me use off the record information or off the record quotes. There's already way too much anonymity in the news world. But I’ll share with you what some news executives have said to me in off the record conversations about this.
