Paul, Your cartoon on media coverage of this war is sadly not new. Currently, the BBC is quite literally tying itself in knots trying to show equivalency between events in Israel and in Gaza. In particular, BBC is being excoriated for not referring to the Hamas barbarians ad "terrorists" as these three disparate sources all indicate.
Tragically this level of journalistic malfeasance has been going on for decades and shows no signs of self-correcting no matter how horrific the acts of cruelty inflicted on innocent victims by Hamas and other jihadist terrorist groups. As to why this is I do not know -- I would like to think that these major US, UK, and European news agencies are not staffed with rabid Jew-hating anti-Semites but that, sadly, is one plausible conclusion based on decades of Middle East reporting. There is a narrative warfare article in here waiting to be written.
I partially agree here. First, it is true the our overall media landscape is just that… media always and reputable news much less. There are many reasons for this but there are still, many credible reporting enitities such as Reuthers, The Associated Press, USA Today and also, the BBC, despite your noted issue regarding whether or not that they consider HAMAS a terrorist org or not. Their reporting on the conflict, has been and is still exemplary.
As we both know, there are several reasons that nations will not designate orgs “FTOs.” Most have to do with specific legalities and the inherent responsibilities of nations once they have made these designations.
Where I see a potential Narrative Warfare piece is lack of depth in reporting. Reuters for example does some excellent investigative reporting but even in an article today, left so much ambiguity over a critical point regarding to origiin of this ongoing conflict, that readers would be hard pressed to understand the truth, without significant historical knowledge.
Part of the reasons for such curt/ stark reporting is the ever shortening attention span of readers. Like politics, readers are being conditioned for black and white, yes or no, right vs wrong paradigms. Life is rarely so uncomplicated and never so in this region. To me, the greatest disappointment is that there is a mountain of excellent information available in our hands these days and general ignorance and oversimplification have become mainstream.
Paul, Your cartoon on media coverage of this war is sadly not new. Currently, the BBC is quite literally tying itself in knots trying to show equivalency between events in Israel and in Gaza. In particular, BBC is being excoriated for not referring to the Hamas barbarians ad "terrorists" as these three disparate sources all indicate.
https://variety.com/2023/politics/global/bbc-israel-hamas-terrorists-backlash-1235750630/
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67076341
https://www.ajc.org/news/what-to-know-about-media-bias-in-coverage-of-hamas-attack-on-israel
Tragically this level of journalistic malfeasance has been going on for decades and shows no signs of self-correcting no matter how horrific the acts of cruelty inflicted on innocent victims by Hamas and other jihadist terrorist groups. As to why this is I do not know -- I would like to think that these major US, UK, and European news agencies are not staffed with rabid Jew-hating anti-Semites but that, sadly, is one plausible conclusion based on decades of Middle East reporting. There is a narrative warfare article in here waiting to be written.
My friend,
I partially agree here. First, it is true the our overall media landscape is just that… media always and reputable news much less. There are many reasons for this but there are still, many credible reporting enitities such as Reuthers, The Associated Press, USA Today and also, the BBC, despite your noted issue regarding whether or not that they consider HAMAS a terrorist org or not. Their reporting on the conflict, has been and is still exemplary.
As we both know, there are several reasons that nations will not designate orgs “FTOs.” Most have to do with specific legalities and the inherent responsibilities of nations once they have made these designations.
Where I see a potential Narrative Warfare piece is lack of depth in reporting. Reuters for example does some excellent investigative reporting but even in an article today, left so much ambiguity over a critical point regarding to origiin of this ongoing conflict, that readers would be hard pressed to understand the truth, without significant historical knowledge.
Part of the reasons for such curt/ stark reporting is the ever shortening attention span of readers. Like politics, readers are being conditioned for black and white, yes or no, right vs wrong paradigms. Life is rarely so uncomplicated and never so in this region. To me, the greatest disappointment is that there is a mountain of excellent information available in our hands these days and general ignorance and oversimplification have become mainstream.