Very well meaning people are confused and heartbroken right now, seeing what they think are images typical of the current state of Gaza. That’s the fault of big media, which are openly refusing to do the basics of journalism.
Learn about it in the new episode of They Stand Corrected. You’ll hear how The New York Times has been flouting its own rules to serve as a propaganda outlet.
Right on the heels of running an op-ed that took quotes out of context, The Times launched a new attack. It placed an image of a skeletal boy on the front page — a photo hiding his his well fed brother who stood right next to him, and with no acknowledgment that he has a health condition. H/t David Collier, an independent journalist whom I interviewed on They Stand Corrected:
After days of outcries, the Times has now run a tiny acknowledgment online — not even a correction.
This is exactly how propaganda works: using images, while avoiding facts and context. It’s the memetic warfare an expert discussed in Episode 65.
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As I reported earlier this week, the Times, by comparison, has done virtually zero stories about heartbreaking, raging famines all over the world.
If a right-wing news outlet gave comparatively no attention to famines killing African and Asian people, then suddenly paid heavy attention to allegations of famine in an area of mostly “white” people, many readers would recognize it as racism. The Times and other “mainstream” outlets do exactly the same thing for people who identify as Palestinians, in service of the big lie of the left.
99.9% of people dying from famine worldwide are nowhere near Gaza. But here’s a look at headlines:
The media also denies, downplays, or ignores the reality that Islamist terrorists are stealing aid and shooting people at distribution sites, while the U.N. is refusing to distribute aid. (Watch international human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky at a crossing.)
Newsrooms are filled with people who don’t care about famine unless they see one as an opportunity to demonize Israel. No Jews to blame, no news. Shame.
As I explain frequently, since there’s no journalistic or ethical argument for this, people try a financial argument, citing U.S. support for Israel. They have no clue what they’re talking about. Another top recipient of U.S. aid is Ethiopia, where starvation remains the leading cause of death.
Meanwhile, Israel has a long history of trying to assist nations that face famine, like helping quintuple crop yields in Ethiopia.
The new episode begins by digging into an op-ed by a professor alleging “genocide” — and taking quotes out of context. More on that in another newsletter soon.
When news agencies engage in practices like this, it’s crucial to know: They could do this to you, or to anyone. In a world of news failure, no one is safe.
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