Exactly ten years ago, during an Israel-Hamas war that seemed major at the time but seems minor now, I published two essays describing my time reporting on Israel for the Associated Press. “Is there anything left to say about Israel and Gaza? Newspapers this summer have been full of little else,” I wrote at the time. “Television viewers see heaps of rubble and plumes of smoke in their sleep.” It wasn’t the volume of coverage that unsettled me in the summer of 2014. I was writing about something that had gone unreported, and which has done much to shape reality in the decade since—a change not in the news but in the newsroom.
The essays—the first for Tablet, and the second for The Atlantic — described my experience as a reporter watching from the inside as a major news organization lost its way in one of the world’s most heavily covered stories. To this day, nothing I’ve ever written has been quoted back at me more often. The essays go back into circulation every time there’s an explosion of violence here, and it happened again after the Hamas attack of October 7.
I don’t think the lying started in 2014, to be blunt. The moose limbs have been trying to destroy Israel since 1949. About every ten years or less, they have another try. And right after the Holocaust as well.
Try to imagine what would happen to an identifiable group that tried that here in Canada. Like Germans, or Japanese just ferinstance. History speaks rather plainly. The concept of blitzkrieg -and- the concept of a concentration camp were both invented in Canada.
I would opine, if I may, that the J3ws have gone far beyond patience and begun bordering on sainthood for their restraint. Nobody else in the entire world does what they do. Nobody.
But I agree that the media stopped trying to pretend they weren’t lying right around then. I put it at 2010-ish, maybe journalists are a little slow on the uptake.
I was thinking about this this morning for some reason. This fat guy #CenkUygur is on TV a lot, I see him being dismantled by conservatives from time to time on YouTube. Type of pushy, mouthy mofo who openly spits in your face and then tells you its raining. He’s a -moderate- on TV these days.
So really, you have nothing to gain from listening to these people anymore. They’ve gone full Hunger Games.
Cenk Uygur named his “group” the “Young Turks”, the last group of “young turks” in the form of CUP was responsible for the Armenian Genocide, and dragging Turkey into WW1.
Comparing him to a bag of dung, would be unfair to the dung.
Amazing that this guy is still on TV after Oct. 7th, right? Blows your mind.
But no, not amazing. Predictable. Because we keep seeing the people running it are horrendous perverts.
Pizzagate was weak-sauce compared to what’s going on there.
“Amazing that this guy is still on TV after Oct. 7th, right? Blows your mind.”
Definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Douglas Murray dismantled him with ease on YouTube…had Uygur literally screaming at the end.
Let’s begin by wiping out all journalism. All they do is lie – right?
Then we can rely on the ‘honest’ journos armed with a cell phone and a YouTube channel. They’ll get to the heart of the matter with an unbiased opinion.
Sarc off
I get my news from Kate. The CBC/CTV/Glowball/CITY-TV are strictly point-and-laugh these days. Comic relief.
Say what you want about blogs and cell-phone journalism, even if they’re lying they don’t all tell the same lie, in unison. Mainstream media is a new lie every day, they don’t even have to coordinate because they’re all reading from the same hymnal.
Seeing these media companies all off the air, bankrupt and replaced by -nothing- would be an improvement. Not knowing what happened is better than living in a sea of lies and false prophets. As a practical example, they wouldn’t have been able to do Covid to us without the mainstream media.
See what I’m saying?
The activist-journalists, I found, were backed up by an affiliated world of progressive NGOs and academics who we referred to as experts, creating a thought loop nearly impervious to external information. All of this had the effect of presenting a mass audience with a supposedly factual story that had a powerful emotional punch and a familiar villain.
Yet … despite the prefabricated narrative … the PEOPLE see and understand what is happening. And the PEOPLE aren’t having any of it. Cry “genocide” all you want … hand out all the sheets you want after the next hostage is murdered … it doesn’t matter. The PEOPLE see what Islam is all about. What Gaza is all about. What Hezbollah in Lebanon are all about. What Iran is all about. And the PEOPLE aren’t the least bit concerned about “civilian” deaths in Gaza and Lebanon. Go meet your maker … scum.
“…the PEOPLE see and understand what is happening.”
Yes they do, and an awful lot of people who were previously asleep are now wide awake. I remember being in Silicon Valley around 2010, and people were randomly yelling about the national debt. At Whole Foods. In Palo Alto. I didn’t see that once, I saw it many times while I was there. Something would come on a TV monitor, or they’d read it on their phone, and they would GO OFF on a rant. And then from around the store you would hear “hell yeah that’s right!” or “you know it!” from the other shoppers.
I haven’t been in the States since 2018, but I can’t imagine things have improved. I mean, there’s only so often you can have media spit in your face and tell you its raining before you pick a side.
Here in Canada there is this kind of sullen, heavy silence. Nobody says jack in the grocery store, unless you say the word “covid” and then you’ll hear something. But I see an awful lot of F*TRUDEAU!!! bumper stickers and flags, which is not a thing I’ve seen here before, really. Lots of Pali flags too, but only in Toronto.
The atmosphere is not congenial, shall we say. Next election is going to be interesting.
It is instructive that when you see a truck or car flying the Canadian flag, You can instantly tell the politics of the driver.
Right? Also instructive that mostly you see -no- flags, stickers, no signs of any kind. Vast majority of cars and houses, no insignia.
Almost as if the Normies are running silent.
That’s how Canadians are. They don’t say anything. But one minute the bar is quiet, and the next minute there’s an all-hands beatdown on the dance floor.
I certainly think the “Israel is justified” segment is a much stronger majority than the media is willing to admit to. But while they’re doing their damnedest to simp for and exagerate the size of the Pali crowd, we can’t lose sight that they ARE a significant segment nonetheless. Low-infos and West-haters, many of them, to be sure. They don’t care per se; like many muslim nations in the ME, the Palis are a convenient geopolitical cudgel.
When Jefferson wrote to John Norvel in 1807 “nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” He wasn’t wrong, and yes this applies to television “news” as well, going back to at least Cronkite if not to the start of television “news”.
That Matti Friedman is not aware that Cronkite, Rather and others were purveyors of “Narrative” news, even after the CNN debacle of reporting Saddam’s propaganda from Baghdad, and other obvious examples says a lot about his biases and blind spots.
/insert “welcome to the party, pal!” meme here.
I had a brief subscription to The Free Press.
Your last paragraph describes well my frequent impression of its writers which caused me to bail.
The concept is called “nudging.” At first, TV news gave the narrative that a vast majority of the public would support, but then gradually, they used *abused) that moral-majority opinion by gently nudging a contrary suggestion. At first, the suggestions were tame and minor, and so it was easy to convince the public of this mild deviation from the norm. That was to gain the public’s trust for what was to become later.
Remember how the Same-Sex Marriage debate evolved? Same with abortion. At first, the public saw both of these issues, along with many others, as “extreme” and “radical,” but then, with a little nudging, the public perceived that these issues weren’t extreme at all, but was in reality the majority opinion, and so, everyone didn’t want to be left out (in today’s lexicon: “cancelled”) so everyone went along with what they thought the majority opinion was, and it’s all thanks to the media’s nudging.
They’ve been at this ever since the inception of television news. Been going on even longer than that — since the forties after WWII. This “progressive” strategy has been acted upon for nearly a century… all following Sol Alinsky’s advice on how to institute socialism in a free, and democratic society.
They’ve being blatantly lying for a long time and to me it started with OKC bombing in 1995. Right-wing militias, sure.
The world needs another Vlad Drakul. I guess Bibi almost fits the bill, hence why the left hates him
If you go all the way back to 1992 you might have caught the Rush Limbaugh TV Show. He was one of the first to show montages of the main stream media, not only reporting the same story exactly the same, but detailed how they used the exact same catch phrases and inflammatory words.
What that tells us that it isn’t necessarily the journalists who are totally at fault (although they hold a significant piece of it). It tells us that there is a “big chair” above the corporate media that calls in their requirements so as to shape society and the markets. In truth, we’d probably not even recognize the names of these puppet masters. At least, they better hope we never do.
I have satellite radio. Driving to work I used to cycle between channels. Yes, they get their talking points from the same source, whether it’s in the US or Canada and sometimes even the BBC. “Emolument”, “Not exonerated” “Russian Collusion” etc.
The lies started in the Garden of Eden when the father of lies beguiled the woman into eating the forbidden fruit. That aside the roots to the war in the middle east began in the 1840s when the Jewish influence beguiled evangelical Christianity with dispensationalism. Sadly people like DL Moody fell for the lie and promoted the idea of a pre tribulation rapture and the reestablishment of the nation of Israel. Of course dispensationalism is just one of many false teachings that arose in that time frame. Think of Mormonism and Jehovah Witness and Seventh Day Adventist. Of the 4 heresies the one that has done the most damage to the world is dispensationalism. As it led to the creation of the fake state of Israel and consequently put the world on the precipice of a nuclear war.
“…the creation of the fake state of Israel…”
Yeah sure.
This is the same thing as Germans going to Scotland, trying to kick the Scots out of it and k1lling them everywhere else in the world because they’re Scots. And then crying when they get a Glasgow kiss.
J3ws have been in Israel since long before #BigMo was a child m0lester. Like a thousand years longer. Everybody knows it.
And we know that ain’t rain, Joe.
Yawn. Do you ever look in the mirror and ask yourself “can I be any stupider”? Honest question. The Palestinians are native. The “Jews” are European. Do try to keep up. As for the rest of what I wrote I see you cannot counter. typical
“The Palestinians are native.”
Yeah, sure. Still “raining”, huh? Who built the Temple Mount, Joe?
HamAss or HaznoBallz, Joe? Did they give you a pager?
No need to ask how you can be stupider, you will demonstrate soon enough.
The middle east has been a tinder box since time immemorial. The UN mandated creation of Israel in 1948 driven by the dubious claim of “A land without people for a people without a land” – sparked a fire that no one knows how or cares to extinguish. Ever since we’ve been subjected to a litany of “It all started when he hit me back” followed by “Let’s you and him fight.”
Sadly you are correct. The lies that enabled the creation of the state of Israel are innumerable but in reality the truth is that many of the Palestinians displaced or killed by Israel are/were Christians. In 1947, 44% of the Palestinians were Christian.
The lying started early. Remember CNN was producing cute stories about Iraq and Saddam Hussein right after the first gulf war, to get access. Remember the fawning Vogue article on Syria’s dictator? The local journos working for Reuters staging pictures of (what else) victims of Israeli air strikes during some clash or another in Lebanon.
A hundred years ago you had liars like Duranty, but at least you had guys like Gareth Jones telling the truth.
Nowadays they’re all Durantys.
What I find interesting in a conspiratory sort of way..is that the secret society at Yale (Skull and Bones) took a very hard left turn about the same time the “wokeness” labels started appearing. They used to be an organization that honored alumni members and were always leaning a bit to the right. But, around 2016 that all changed. Their hard left turn coincided with a certain president taking office.
Currently, progressive activism is a benefit to prospective members. In 2020, they had their first ever all non-white class. No conservatives were admitted to the organization in 2021.
I mention all of this because I assume whomever is really calling the shots likely is an Ivy League graduate with connections to all forms of government, industry and culture. What better place to establish those fundamentals than in an organization that collects them. Too far out there for you guys? (shrugs). Someone is working the puppets, and the sooner we know who it is, the better.
” Someone is working the puppets, and the sooner we know who it is, the better.”
Larry Fink, as a whistle blower said, big pharma doesn’t advertise to sell drugs, they advertise to control the news, and Blackrock is in the thick of it!
18.3% of USA economy is pharmaceuticals.
The media are like WWE sports entertainments.. Its all BS.
Piper’s Pit with Macho Man Randy Savage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4rGEGkxdkg
You have to be able to sort out bull shit. Sure the media can have an agenda. Think the Polish press doesn’t spin to it’s audience? Or the Iranians to their’s or the Yanks or Canucks?
If all your looking for is confirmation bias you won’t have trouble finding a source.
The point is the more opinion you can filter through the more likely your chance of having an informed opinion.
The Jerusalem Post
“Is Lebanon part of Israel’s promised territory?
By MARK FISH SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
https://web.archive.org/web/20240926233315/https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-821680
Israel doesn’t have any promised territory. It was given a lot of territory 2 and a half millennia ago but it walked away from that so it lost any claim to any of the land. Then given the fact that the Jews now in Israel are European Jews and not descendants of Abraham.
That article was almost immediately removed from the site after publication.
https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-821680
Weird.
promised land, that’s what God gave them
but they had to fight for it
well Joe, it doesn’t depend on land claims that Israel has but on the promise of God. He said the land was theirs and He not finished with them yet because He is faithful to His promises. Its not because they are “good” people of the right ethnicity but because He is good. By the way, salvation is of the Jews through Jesus the Messiah and is a free gift to them when they turn to Him. You too, Joe. You have a good night. I’m off to bed.
What promise are you talking about. Old Testament? Sorry but that has been abrogated by the New Testament. Maybe you heard about some guy named Jesus? How about some other guy named Paul? Both of them said that the old covenant has been replaced by a new and better one. Anyone who thinks that God is some kind of racist real estate agent has got rocks in their head. The Promised Land is not of this world. Life is not of this world. There is no need for this stupid conflict. So let me ask you a serious question. If Turkey were to declare itself Muslim and ban all the other religions from participating in civil conversation would you be in favour? If not why not? I would not be in favour because I don’t think any religion should be part of the secular government. Maybe if you did a little research you wouldn’t be so ignorant of these simple truths.
“It was given a lot of territory 2 and a half millennia ago but it walked away from that so it lost any claim to any of the land. ”
By “walked away from” you mean “was *driven* away from”, right?
(of course you do…because that’s a matter of historical record that only AN IDIOT would even attempt to deny)
The Jews owned that land for over a thousand years before Mohammad copulated with his first goat.
Gee Fred, didn’t you know? Joe told me they aren’t from there. Uh uh. Palestinians are native, yessiree.
But now here he is telling you that they “walked away” 2000 years ago. Pick a lane, Joe.
I hope Joe is keeping that pager someplace safe.
So you have trouble understanding history and the English language and that is my problem how again? Your ignorance is not my issue so I will let you dwell in the darkness like some gothic troll. Have a nice existence.
President Nasser, interviewed in the Presidential Palace in Cairo by New York Times managing editor Clifton Daniel, 1969
“You will never be able to live here in peace, because you left here black and came back white”,
— Gamal Abdel 2nd President of Egypt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg9eC-otwCs
Gamal Abdel was pointing out that the evil psychos currently running Israel are impostors. They are not actual Jews.
Does anyone really believe Biden is an actual Christian? Why would anyone believe Netanyahu is an actual Jew? These evil psychos use religion as a costume to get what they want.
Do a search for “Khazarian name stealers”.
You sadly are absolutely correct. The “Jews” in Israel are not descended from Abraham either genetically or religiously. They are a blight on Judaism as a religion. They should be removed. Benjamin Mileikowsky AKA the PM of Israel is a war criminal. He should have been arrested when he bloviated at the UN. No wonder 95% of the attendees got up and walked out as he came to the podium. No one needs to listen to that level of evil.
” No wonder 95% of the attendees got up and walked out as he came to the podium.”
Yes, because 95% of the UN General Assembly are dictators, depots and mass-murderers engaged in an ongoing desperate attempt to keep the focus of the world-wide news media off of themselves and on Israel instead. They do this by ganging up on Israel and proposing resolution after resolution condemning them and bemoaning the fate of the poor, downtrodden ‘Palestinians’ (as if they actually gave a rat’s ass about them). “Look over there, not over here. There’s nothing to see here, nope…”
” No one needs to listen to that level of evil.”
Agreed. The UN should have been abolished years ago, as it serves no legitimate purpose anymore.
Maybe some day you will extract you head from Mileikowsky’s butt and realise that you are on the wrong side of history.