Mainstream Media = The Enemy Of The People

No one’s mind is going to be changed regardless.

We are past the point of debate, the left is right when they are wrong always need doesn’t matter. The right is playing by the same play book now which compounds this issue.

The worst thing I’ve seen so far is people regurgitating social media clips to support either side of the war. For every Israeli that’s pro hamas you can find a video of a Palestinian that supports Israel. No one is changing their mind, the conversation is over, now it’s time for action.

Moshiach now!!

the media has deadlines to meet. that’s why this happens.
but, slowly, they come around that it wasn’t israel that bombed that hospital.
and now word is, via the media, that the casualties were way over-exaggerated, instead of 500, only 5 to 10, or something in that order, were actually killed.
give the media a little time, and they do tell the truth.
but the orange blob? always lies and lies and lies. disgusting. lock him up. lock him up.

Chaim87,

Trump did not invent the term “the enemy of the people”. He took it straight from Stalin and Trotsky. It echoes of totalitarianism.
It is an offensive term meant to demonize, marginalize and de-humanize political opponents. It should never be used in a democracy. It goes together with Trump’s other favorite term “fake news”. If people disbelieve the media, then Trump can come and constantly repeat his “alternate facts”.

The mainstream media is not the “enemy of the people”. Neither is the even more biased left wing or right wing media.

What should we call Fox news, that paid 700 million dollars for repeatedly lying about the election being stolen? Should we call them “the enemy of the people”? Do we even have to give them a derogatory name? Sometimes the media gets things correct and sometimes they don’t.

The USA is a country founded on freedom of the press, assembly and religion. In the US, the press is a guardian of democracy.
Dictators, Autocrats, and Politicians want people to believe in only what they say and to ignore facts. Richard Nixon would have continued committing crimes if not for the media.
American support for the war in Viet Nam would have gone on forever without the media showing the terrible losses.

The media prints errors every day. They are human and fallible. They have biases and sometime purposefully lie. Some of them are Anti-Semitic. Caveat emptor.

“Indeed, Palestinians rarely make an appearance in The [Washington] Post, unless it’s to serve as the perennial victim — and this too is contingent on portraying Israel, and only Israel, as the oppressor.

When Palestinians suffer at the hands of their [own] leaders,
The [Washington] Post is nowhere to be found.”

SOURCE: article by Sean Durns, 2019 March 6 www algemeiner com
The Media Only Cares about Palestinians If Israel Can Be Blamed

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“But the Western press shows little proclivity for reporting on topics that might cast the PA [Palestinian Authority] in a bad light.”

SOURCE: article by Sean Durns, 2019 March 6 www algemeiner com
The Media Only Cares about Palestinians If Israel Can Be Blamed

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Stephen M. Flatow said:

“Despite the constant refrain from the J Street and the international news media about the so-called ‘Israeli occupation of the Palestinians,’ the reality is that 98 percent of the Palestinian Arabs live under Palestinian rule.”

SOURCE: Looking for Jews to Kill by Stephen M. Flatow 2019 March 6 www JNS org

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Harry Maryles [an Orthodox Rabbi] said:

“I am so tired of the extreme media bias. And yes. It is extreme.

Never before has it come into such stark focus as it has under the Trump administration.
There is hardly any mention of the name Trump without either an overt or disguised negative comment.

It almost doesn’t matter who is reporting it. The attitude is the same.
Anything the President says or does is bad. No matter what it is.
Even his accomplishments are spun into the negative.”

SOURCE: The Truth about Trump and Illegal Aliens
by Harry Maryles, 2019 July 12, haemtza blogspot com

Gadolhadorah,

“although they were too quick to blame IDF for the Hamas rocket that hit the hospital.”

It goes far beyond that. Major outlets deliberately obfuscated the sources of the claims, calling them “Palestinian officials” or even “health authorities”, when in fact, it was Hamas making the claims. Even days later, many outlets continue to cover it as a “he said, she said” situation, with a tepid, if any, acknowledgement that US officials corroborated Israel’s lack of responsibility for the explosion. Or that Israeli officials have provided abundant evidence, while Hamas has provided zero evidence to support their accusation.

“If you tune in to NewsMax, they were covering the “news” about Natalie Holoway murder and One America News was covering another election denial story in Arizona and the announcement of Kari Lake (the loser last time) that she is now running for the Senate.”

Whataboutism. HuffPost’s lead headline is crowing about Jim Jordan’s disgrace, even as two American citizen hostages are b’chasdei Hashem released. A ctrl-f on MSNBC’s home page shows 16 matches for “Trump” and only 3 for “Biden”, despite the former being out of office for years now, and it also has Natalie Holloway at the top of the page.

“I think the mainstream media, especially the cable news networks, have saturated their coverage over the past 12 days with horrific pictures of the Hamas butchery to an extent I would not have expected”

Unfortunately, I think this has more to do with voyeurism than true sympathy or balanced coverage. As the old media adage goes, “if it bleeds, it leads.”

Laureen Lipsky said:

“New York City has seen a huge increase in anti-Semitic attacks, largely carried out against religious Jews in Brooklyn. Most of these incidents are ignored by the media.”

SOURCE: Algemeiner (dot) com, article titled:
Anti-Israel Hate Marches Continue in Europe and the West
by Laureen Lipsky 2019/6/6 (Laureen Lipsky is a pro-Israel advocate
living in New York and the founder of Taking Back the Narrative.)

PERSONAL COMMENT:
Given that the mainstream-news-media intentionally ignored the increase in anti-Semitic attacks in New York City, how can they be trusted to report about Israel fairly?

Matti Friedman (former Associated Press news reporter) said:

“The big players in the news business practice groupthink…”
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“Many of the people deciding what you
will read and see from here [Israel] view
their role not as explanatory but as political.

Coverage is a weapon to be placed at the disposal of the side they like.”

SOURCE: An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth
by Matti Friedman, 2014/8/26, Tablet Magazine, www (dot) TabletMag (dot) com

SUMMARY: This article exposes intentional anti-Israel bias in the news media.
It is still VERY relevant, even though it was written in 2014.