‘Near Daily’ Israeli Assaults on Lebanon Have Become Non-News for Western Media
Western corporate media have increasingly lost interest in reporting on Israel’s unceasing war on its northern neighbor.
Media Credit Trump for Gaza Truce—Sidelining Palestinian Resistance and Solidarity
An accounting of the ceasefire is incomplete if it excludes how anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist forces in the Middle East thwarted US/Israeli designs.
Media Downplay Israeli Violations of Hezbollah Ceasefire
Despite the overwhelming number of Israeli attacks in the post-ceasefire period, news audiences have heard that a “tense ceasefire holds.”
Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’
Western corporate media outlets have done a fine job of legitimizing Israel’s mass killing, displacement and destruction in Lebanon.
Demonizing Hezbollah to Legitimize a US/Israel Onslaught on Lebanon
Coverage of the US/Israeli assault on Lebanon has evinced a casual disregard for Lebanese lives, and often an outright zest for killing the country’s people.
‘Western Press Obscured the Sheer Terror of What Israel Had Carried Out’:
CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks
“What unfolded in Lebanon last week was something dystopian, but it wasn’t a movie. It affected real people’s lives.”
Mohamad Bazzi on Israeli Terror Attacks
As every day brings news of new carnage, US citizens have a duty not to look away, given our government’s critical role in arming Israel and ignoring its crimes.
NYT Uncritically Reported Israel’s Version of Golan Bombing
Coverage of the Golan Heights massacre continues a long trend of US media outlets obscuring and distorting reality in order to downplay Israel’s aggressive regional ambitions.
Pundits Push for Regional Escalation in the Wake of Israeli Assassinations
Following Israel’s assassinations of a Hezbollah commander in Beirut and a Hamas negotiator in Tehran, corporate media pundits have called for the US and Israel to escalate the region-wide war.
Media’s Top Meaning for ‘Proxy’ Is ‘Iranian Ally’
With the word “proxy,” corporate media downplay the extent of US interference in other countries, while frequently portraying Iran as undercutting other peoples’ independence.
Jumping on the Hezbollah ‘Narcoterrorism’ Bandwagon
It’s helpful to have a narco-jihadi menace—in bed with socialist regimes in Latin America, no less—festering along the United States’ southern border.
Hiding the Impact of US Sanctions on Lebanon
That Lebanon is enduring a major financial crisis was made clear; that US sanctions have contributed to the problem was obscured.
We’re (Anonymously) With You! WaPo Touts U.S. Support for Arab Democracy
Now this is a head scratcher.”As Arabs Protest, U.S. Speaks Up” is the headline today over a story by Scott Wilson and Joby Warrick in the Washington Post. The storyattempts to arguethat the Obama administration is backing protests in Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon–in the first two cases, regimes backed strongly by the United States (Egypt […]
The Sham That Is ‘Objective’ Corporate Journalism
In a Consortium News rejoinder (4/30/09) to how “mainstream U.S. news media often laments the decline of objective journalism, pointing disapprovingly at the more subjective news that comes from the Internet or from ideological programming,” Robert Parry writes that one could argue that the U.S. mainstream press has inflicted the severest damage to the concept […]
FAIR Activist: Friedman’s Phony Evidence That Terror Works
Posting his letter to the New York Times on FAIR Blog, FAIR activist bpb points out that not only is Thomas Friedman claiming that terrorism works, he’s making up evidence to claim that terrorism works: There is no evidence for Thomas Friedman’s contention that after Israel’s 2006 war with Hizballah, “Lebanese civilians, in anguish, said […]
Krauthammer vs. Peace
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer continues to support Israel’s assault on Gaza in today’s paper (1/9/09). He displays a remarkably odd notion of what a cease fire is for, citing the lessons of Lebanon as a cautionary tale: The U.N.-mandated disarmament of Hezbollah in Lebanon is a well-known farce. Not only have foreign forces not […]
‘Wagging the Puppy’—and Unleashing the Deadly Dogs of War
Midway through July, the Karl Rove scandal was dominating the national news — until the sudden announcement of a Supreme Court nominee interrupted the accelerating momentum of the Rove story. Since then, some anti-Bush groups and progressive pundits have complained that the White House manipulated the media agenda. But when it comes to deploying weapons […]
