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The unmistakable message has gone out to reporters across the corporate media: If you criticize Israel or express sympathy for the Palestinian cause, you could be fired.
MSNBC canceled The Mehdi Hasan Show despite strong ratings after weeks of hard-hitting reporting challenging the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on Gaza. Other outlets that have sidelined pro-Palestinian voices include the BBC, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Associated Press, and many others.
Meanwhile, the total killed in Gaza is now approaching 20,000, with well over 7,000 children killed. That’s one child killed every 15 minutes for over two months straight.
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The extreme ideological conformity that has gripped so much of the Western news media’s coverage of the assault on Gaza is actively contributing to the ongoing killing of civilians on the ground.
International law experts argue that a genocide is unfolding in Gaza, with 80 percent of the population displaced, hospitals and refugee camps bombed, and food, medicine, fuel, and water cut off.
But across much of the U.S. media, all of this gets whitewashed under the banner of Israel’s unquestionable “right to defend itself.”
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