Buying the War on Palestinians: The US Media, The New York Times and Israel
I haven't had a chance to read through this article (I'll blame the tequila and antibiotics), so I can't vouch for how/if at all contentious it is, but it came up on my Google news alert... Was anyone able to catch the Bill Moyers' special on PBS (April 25 - Buying the War)?
After four disastrous years of US military occupation, Bill Moyers' April 25 PBS special Buying the War attempted to hold the mainstream US media accountable for its complicity in selling the war on Iraq to the US public. Moyers documented how the US media, with The New York Times in a leading role, bowed to financial and political pressure, succumbed to an environment of patriotism and fear of terrorism, and uncritically reported false US government claims. Tragically, despite the terrible consequences of 60 years of Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people, there is still no significant movement to hold the US mainstream media accountable for a similar, dramatic failure in covering Israel and Palestine, and for its complicity in the US' uncritical support for Israel.Moyers' analysis of the US media failure on Iraq was valuable, yet incomplete. ...
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Comments
It is a sad reflection on the U.S. media that the Israeli media does a far more effective and, dare I say, balanced job of covering this issue. The American elite seems far more blindly biased towards Israeli policy than even the Israelis themselves - see the recent Jimmy Carter "apartheid" storm in America, which would have made only a ripple in Israel, where the term is commonly used by left-wing Jews.
Posted by: Jacob Schuman | May 8, 2007 09:17 PM