What one night of violence exposed about the western media’s failings on Israel and Palestine.
In the wake of an unsightly eruption of violence on the streets of Amsterdam, the media protection of the story has actually been put under the microscopic lense with editors rushing to modify headings, revamp stories, and reframe video material.
Factors:
Dana Mills– Writer, Local Call and +972 Magazine
Marc Owen Jones– Associate teacher, Northwestern University Qatar
James North– Editor-at-large, Mondoweiss
Samira Mohyeddin– Founder, On The Line Media
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The Headline Fixer
Throughout Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, critics have actually been tearing apart the media protection– particularly by news outlets in the United States.
Function blurb: Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has actually shone an often-unflattering spotlight on media protection by mainstream United States news outlets. Such failings leap out at us since they typically are available in the type of headings. Historian Assal Rad discusses the objective she has actually carried out to “repair” misinforming headings.
Featuring:
Assal Rad– Author of State of Resistance: Politics, Culture and Identity in Modern Iran