U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.
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U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.
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For his new book “How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza,” @ahjohnson.bsky.social wanted to demonstrate that U.S. media coverage of the war on Gaza was one-sided, racist, dehumanizing, and often veered into outright incitement.
@ahjohnson.bsky.social examined over 12,000 articles from the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN[dot]com, Politico, Axios, USA Today, and The Associated Press, along with 5,000 TV segments that aired on CNN and MSNBC.
Today at The Intercept, we’re publishing seven statistical findings by @ahjohnson.bsky.social that prove the U.S. media’s bias against Palestinians. 🧵
The media’s penchant for invoking a nation’s “right to defend itself,” typically followed by the rationalization of mass civilian killing, was reserved almost exclusively for Israel. interc.pt/4tNXXQJ