ms spock said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
ms spock said:MSM is the main stream media.
I have a friend who has been trying to get coverage of the billions of dollars Australian taxpayers being sent to Israel via various channels for over two years. She could only get a Turkish online media site to cover it.
Using MSM as a pejorative is just as nutty be you from the hard right or the hard left.
The MSM failed to report the genocide in Palestine in an accurate manner.
Abstract
This paper examines the Western legacy media’s coverage of the war on Gaza, particularly news media organisations with business models that allow them to be independent and, therefore, not completely captured by politics or economics. The paper posits that an initial examination of their war coverage shows how these organisations contribute to the proliferation of a post-truth environment wherein essential journalistic values, such as accuracy, independence and balance, are sidelined. Through a qualitative case study approach, the paper aims to analyse the loss of basic media ethics among Western legacy news media and to identify a pattern of biased narratives, selective omission of facts and a predominance of the Israeli official government sources over fair, balanced and independent journalistic voices. The paper argues that this skewed portrayal decontextualises, dehistoricises and misrepresents the conflict’s complexity, as it also reinforces existing power dynamics and hegemonies. It calls for a re-evaluation of journalistic practices and media ethics in the context of international conflict reporting. It asserts that for democracy to thrive, a radical transformation of media practices is essential, prioritising the reinstatement of journalistic integrity and a commitment to truth-telling, even in the face of political pressures, power imbalances and propaganda.…
Criticism of Western media news coverage of the genocide in Gaza was voiced in open letters by Australian, British, Canadian and American journalists. Australian journalists wrote an open letter calling on Australian newsrooms to undertake eight steps to improve coverage, including ‘adhering to truth over “both-sidesism”’ and ‘applying as much professional skepticism when prioritising or relying on uncorroborated Israeli government and military sources to shape coverage as is applied to Hamas’ (Muller Citationn.d.). Similarly, more than 750 American journalists signed a letter protesting US newsrooms’ coverage of the genocide in Gaza (Washington Post Citation2023). Scholarly and journalistic criticism of Western legacy media reporting of the genocide in Gaza has been documented by The Intercept, The Washington Post, The Conversation, The New Humanitarian, The Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera English, Mondoweiss, The Middle East Council on Global Affairs, DAWN MENA and others.”:Full article: Western media’s ethical collapse: silencing Gaza’s voice https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2025.2552361#abstract
“Full article: Western media’s ethical collapse: silencing Gaza’s voice https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2025.2552361#abstract
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2025.2552361#abstract