The Women’s Institute for Freedom of the PressCorporate Media Complicity in Genocide
by Martha Allen
Activists have brought attention to the complicity of the corporate media in both their lack of coverage and their distorted coverage of the genocide in Gaza. Pro-Zionist coverage of Palestine hides the occupation, settler violence, apartheid, and the targeted assassinations of doctors, healthcare workers, journalists, and civilians.
The killing of journalists and media workers by Israel, most recently of Mohammad Salam (Al Jazeera), Hussam Al-Masri (Reuters), Mariam Abu Daqqa (Associated Press), Moath Abu Taha (NBC) and Ahmed Abu Aziz (freelance) on August 25, as well as Anas Al-Sharif before that, is outrageous. With over two hundred and forty journalists in Gaza murdered by Israel, why aren’t the U.S. media demanding that their journalists have safety? Why aren’t corporate media outspoken about the need to have journalists and media workers from around the world able to enter Gaza to cover what is happening rather than just repeat lies and justifications given out by Israel? Corporate media has served as propaganda machines and stenographers of Israel rather than providing a free press. But due to the existence of independent media and direct communication through social media, the truth gets out. The American people and across the world have lost trust in corporate media.
Activists such as Hazami Barmada, Atefeh Rokhvand, Sumer Mobarak, and many others are creatively bringing attention to the corporate media complicity in the genocide in Gaza. NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, Reuters, NYT, Washington Post, and other media have made it possible for the genocide to continue.
We are thankful for independent media such as The Grayzone, Katie Halper, MintPress, BreakThrough News (Rania Khalek), Drop Site News, The Empire Files (Abby Martin), On The Ground Show (Esther Iverem), Democracy Now! and so many more. As a result of direct communications through social media and analysis by independent media, people of the world know more about what is going on and what needs to be done.
