| Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Just watch it. | |
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Do you think that, John? Do you think one side is more pure than the other? Apparently, the US does. Because the US is supporting Israel's side. The US is sending bombs to Israel.
Thanks, Tavia, for posting this. That hour goes fast. It really offers some astounding biases of US News coverage and reasons for those biases. I guess it had to be slanted toward Palastinian sympathy in order to bring out these biases. I don't think things are so black and white and I wonder if peace would be possible even if Isreal left the West Bank and Gaza strip. After so many centuries of violence in the holy land, can it just stop?
And, that's my whole point, John. The US should listen to the Founding Fathers. "A passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favourite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest... where no real common interest exists... betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and Wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification."
John, you make the point that we don't understand it. So, why do you support the US getting involved in it? As we have been advised by the Founding Fathers, "entangling alliances with none."
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