CNN And Washington Post Busted For Pro-Israel Propaganda Shenanigans by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-01-06 at 19:48:09 )

CNN And Washington Post Busted For Pro-Israel Propaganda Shenanigans by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The biggest misconception about propaganda is that it is something that happens to other people, and is done by other countries.

Both CNN and The Washington Post have been caught engaging in some pretty shady journalistic malpractice with their Israel reporting in recent days.

In a new article titled "CNN Runs Gaza Coverage Past Jerusalem Team Operating Under Shadow of IDF Censor," The Intercept reports that all of CNNs reporting on Israel and Palestine is funneled through a bureau in Jerusalem which slants reporting to benefit Israeli information interests and is subject to regulation by Israeli military censors. The Intercept also reports that last year CNN "hired a former soldier from the IDFs Military Spokesperson Unit to serve as a reporter" at the onset of the war on Gaza.

Unnamed CNN staff told The Intercept that CNNs iron-fisted protocols for regulating information related to the Israel-Palestine issue have had a "demonstrable impact on coverage of the Gaza war".

""War-crime" and "genocide" are taboo words," the anonymous CNN staff member said. "Israeli bombings in Gaza will be reported as "blasts" attributed to nobody, until the Israeli military weighs in to either accept or deny responsibility. Quotes and information provided by Israeli army and government officials tend to be approved quickly, while those from Palestinians tend to be heavily scrutinized and slowly processed."

NEW: Internal CNN directives force all Israel news through the Networks Jerusalem Bureau, subjecting it to oversight by the IDF censor. CNN also hired a soldier out of the IDF Spokesperson Unit to cover the aftermath of October 7th.-Daniel Boguslaw (DRBoguslaw) January 4, 2024

The Intercept reports that the former IDF spinmeister has been bylined in dozens of CNN stories since the attack on Gaza began, with one report being "little more than a direct statement released from the IDF."

Kind of makes you wonder why CNN does not just cut out the middleman and run all its reporting directly through IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv. Seems like it would be a bit more efficient, and certainly a lot more honest.

Meanwhile The Washington Post has been caught assigning a reporter with a history of anti-Palestinian bias to write a smear piece on independent media outlets Electronic Intifada and The Grayzone for their critical reporting on Israels ongoing massacre in Gaza.

Both Electronic Intifada and The Grayzone received emails from a Washington Post reporter named Elizabeth Dwoskin, who said she is writing a piece on "efforts to minimize or misdirect information about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel" and interrogating them about their articles casting doubt on the official narrative about what exactly happened that day.

If I am following, a reporter that has denied the fact that Palestinians existed before the state of Israel is allowed to cover Israel-Palestine and write about "misinformation" for washingtonpost ?-Laila Al-Arian (LailaAlarian) January 5, 2024

As Electronic Intifadas Ali Abunimah highlighted on Twitter, when Dwoskin was at Columbia University twenty years ago she was authoring Nakba denialist claims that Palestine never existed and that prior to Israels formation the land was inhabited only by "desert Bedouins without a sense of national identity as we know it today."

It is bad enough for The Washington Post to be attacking independent media for asking the critical questions and doing the real journalism the Post itself should also be doing, but to assign someone with a public history of egregiously anti-Palestinian rhetoric to the task is especially lacking in journalistic integrity.

"If I am following, a reporter that has denied the fact that Palestinians existed before the state of Israel is allowed to cover Israel-Palestine and write about "misinformation" for Washington Post?" tweeted award-winning journalist Laila Al-Arian of Abunimahs revelation.

Neither of these instances will come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying critical attention to the amazingly awful reporting the western mass media have been churning out about the Gaza assault these last three months, but they do offer some rare insight behind the curtain into how the sausage gets made.

Note the language used:

Hamas "propaganda"
Israel "media campaign"

This is how Western media primes readers to support one side and reject the other.-Alan MacLeod (AlanRMacLeod) January 5, 2024

The biggest misconception about propaganda is that it is something that happens to other people, and is done by other countries.

Westerners like to think of themselves as free-thinking people whose worldviews are formed by facts and truth, contrasting themselves with nations like North Korea and China where populations are viewed as being subjected to conformity-enforcing propaganda.

They believe that if propaganda does occur in the west, it comes here from nations like Russia trying to corrupt our minds and weaken our trust in our institutions, or if the propaganda is domestic in origin it only affects people in other political parties.

In reality the typical western mind has been marinating in domestic propaganda throughout its entire life, and its worldview has been manufactured for it by powerful manipulators who benefit from its intellectual compliance with their interests.

The indoctrination into the mainstream western worldview began in school, and it continues throughout adulthood with the help of mainstream media outlets like CNN and The Washington Post.

If we are ever to have a healthy civilization, we are going to have to wake up from the propaganda-induced coma we have been placed in so we can begin pushing against the cage walls we have been indoctrinated our whole lives into ignoring and start using the power of our numbers to force real change in the systems which govern our world.

Luckily the atrocities that have been taking place in Gaza have been rapidly waking people up, because it turns out there is only so much propaganda spin you can put on the murder of thousands of children.

The more people become aware that our civilization is built on deception and everything we have been told about the world is a lie, the closer we get to living in a truth-based society where nothing like the Gaza massacre would ever be permitted to occur!

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