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France bans Peace for Palestine marches but encourages what they call Anti-Semitism ones? However, marches against genocide aren’t anti-Semitic. But marches against anti-Semitism are a media term for Pro-Israel organized by the French far right-wing Party of Marie Le Penn. Hardly a protest against anti-Semitism and pro-Israel but more a protest against Macron.
However, why has this made bigger headlines here in Australia? Particularly when Jews for Peace are marching against Israel in the thousands and closing Central Station NY down and it doesn’t really get reported?
Our media frames protests against Israeli genocide and West Bank dispossession as anti-Semitic rather than protesting these actions as war crimes as defined by International law? Why are they seemingly supporting the current disastrous Israeli action? Netanyahu is currently the world’s greatest Anti-Semite.
France has largely banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations, although supporters have marched in several French cities in the past weeks, including thousands demanding a cease-fire in Gaza in an authorized protest in Paris last Sunday.
Source: Israel-Hamas: Paris protests against antisemitism draw over 100,000
Media China Baiting is promoting LNP’s Fear Factor. To smother the attention on Dutton
The mainstream media has once more tried to generate alarm about the presence of two relatively innocuous Chinese electronic spy ships in international waters during the latest biennial Talisman Sabre military exercise spread across the Australian mainland and offshore oceans. It involves 30,000 troops from 13 countries. Although the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi had publicly assured his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese that his country would attend, India did not turn up.
Peter Costello’s “Mainstream Media” Turns its back to reality for “Ratings”
The mainstream press is unashamedly beating the drums of war while deliberately turning away from what is actually happening, economically and politically in the region, writes Dr William Briggs.
Source: China less of a threat to democracy than the mainstream media
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age just produced an immense example of conflict-of-interest journalism. A former prime minister called it “the most egregious and provocative news presentation” he had ever witnessed in over 50 years of public life.
Since when did the ABC become an extension of the Murdoch press? Should we be surprised, Probyn worked at the Herald Sun for 9 years where he was blooded or was that at Scotch College where he found his anti-Labor stripes?
After addressing the National Press Club last Wednesday on his proposed National Anti-Corruption Commission, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus faced questions from some of Australia’s elite political jour…
Australia’s media is back-snapped broken — but don’t expect the most concentrated media industry in the world to fix itself, writes founder and publisher Dave Donovan and managing editor Michelle Pini.
Why Australian journalists are at war with their audience
An election campaign gaffe has entered an incredible ninth day in the headlines, say the organisations that create those headlines.
Opinion pieces across major mastheads said it was astonishing that we were still talking about the slip up well into the second week of the campaign.
“This happened more than a week ago – that’s an eternity in politics. But yet somehow it’s still all over the news,” one report headlined ‘Why the gaffe is still in the headlines’ read.
One news outlet, which will run a special two-week anniversary lift out special about the gaffe, said it was amazing the story had persisted so long. “I’m not sure how or why, but we’re somehow seeing a new story about this nearly every day”.
The outlet will also publish a special report tomorrow called ‘How the media covered the gaffe’, followed next week by ‘How the media covered the media’s coverage of the gaffe’.
Source: Campaign gaffe still in the headlines, say headlines | The Shovel
We seem more concerned about the freeing of an Afghan soldier who killed 3 Australians than we do about Australian soldiers accused of criminally murdering Afghan innocents. Something suggests we don’t regard Afgan lives as quite the same? Given we recently saw the status of the Afghan army can he legitimately even be called a deserter?
Hekmatullah killed three Australian soldiers while they were playing cards in 2012 He spent seven years in prison in Afghanistan, but was transferred to Qatar last year during US-Taliban peace talks He was released from custody when the Taliban retook Kabul in August, and his whereabouts cannot be verified
Petition set up by the former PM caused problems for the Parliament House website after more than 38,000 people signed in 24 hours
Kevin Rudd petition calls for royal commission into News Corp domination of Australian media | Media | The Guardian
During times of relative stability and peace, poor journalism is an annoyance. But during times of crisis, mediocre reporting has far greater consequences.
‘Press release journalism’ favours Morrison and the Liberal Party
Key points:
- Major newspapers feature “censored” front pages to show the impact of government secrecy
- It follows a television campaign launched on Sunday night
- Media organisations want greater protections for journalists and whistleblowers
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