In this case, when Israel, the ally of the US and the West in the Middle East commits war crimes, editors at the big media corporations seem to feel that their job is to paper over these atrocities to protect an ally. Let’s not forget that old video showing President Joe Biden proclaiming in the Senate “[Israel] is the best 3 billion dollar investment [the United States] made…were there not an Israel, the United States would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region (Middle East).”
Source: Systemic Journalistic Malpractice: How Western Journalism Failed in covering Gaza
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I believe that genuine journalists with integrity would tender their resignations and publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s corrupt media product, be it from the Right or Left. They’d definitely not excuse themselves with: ‘but I have a spouse and kids to feed!’, as though they were forced into coupling, copulating and procreating. …
Seemingly long ago, mainstream journalism tended to challenge the powers-that-be in order to truly comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable in an increasingly unjust global existence. Now, so much of it has become a profession motivated more by a regular company paycheck and frequently published name/face with stories or opinions — a buck and a byline, so to speak. Perhaps such corporately compromised and subjective journalism has become normalized.
The field of mainstream/legacy journalism has mostly become overly corporatized and neo-liberally deceitful, but not left-wing biased. In Canada’s case, for example, Postmedia, which among many other Canadian publications also owns both of our national daily newspapers, is on record allying itself with not only the planet’s second most polluting forms of carbon-based “energy” but also THE MOST polluting/dirtiest crude oil, bitumen.
During a presentation, it was stated: “Postmedia and [Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers] will bring energy to the forefront of our national conversation. Together, we will engage executives, the business community and the Canadian public to underscore the ways in which the energy sector powers Canada.”
Also troubling is that mainstream news-outlet websites [e.g. The Washington Post’s] are increasingly converting to ‘pay-to-say’ formats, where the reader is allowed to consume the article without charge but must buy a subscription in order to comment on the article.
Meantime, there still are reporters and editors who will (as though with big innocent fawn-like eyes) reply to accusations of subjective journalism with, ‘Who, me? I’m just the messenger.’ Whatever the news media may be, they are not ‘just the messenger’; nor are they just a reflection of the communities in which they circulate.
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