Why Doesn't the Media Care About Dead Palestinians?

[DeSwiss]

breakingtheset * Published on Jul 9, 2014

Abby Martin remarks on the latest violence in Palestine, including Israeli airstrikes on civilian targets in Gaza.

- Abby, in answer to your query as to ''Why Doesn't the Media Care About Dead Palestinians?'' -- the answer is that ''the media'' is the 1%.

And the 1% makes money and secures its position through the deaths of others......

[Jackpine Radical]

1. There is no "APPAC" to buy the American M$M and Congress.

And for some reason AIPAC doesn't seem interested in stories about dead Palestinians.

See this link for some interesting numbers & graphs:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stat/deaths.html

[yeoman6987]

27. Israel is lucky to have anti-missle defense

Or they would have a ton more deaths. This week the Israelis had two huge ones heading their way even interrupting a wedding.

[ellenrr]

2. I think the media cater to the 1%, but they are not the 1%. More the handmaidens of the 1%

The media doesn't make $ off the deaths of Palestinians.
But the media (mainstream) does not know or if they know does not care about truth, whether it is about Palestine or capitalism or anything else.
Their only job is to sell mattresses, underwear and cars.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. The media are the tools of their owners, who are the .001%.

We have a propaganda machine disguised as news media. The main difference between the US media and Pravda is that the Russians fully understood that Pravda was lying to them.

[cprise]

14. They essentially own both the US mass media and the politicians

The whole thing, all four estates referenced by the framers of the Constitution, is a globalist oligarchy now. This <1% hates it that there are hold-out regions, some with their separate, unassimilated / unaligned <1%.

OTOH, they do work hard to tell us there is a fire or a murder across town, and thereby retain a certain credibility. But if the criminal is connected with a far-right hate group, there is next-to-zero motivation for them to look for a pattern of terrorism; They reserve that for minorities and the Left.

[DeSwiss]

6. I'm afraid if you can't make sense of it......

...I would recommend the opening your eyes. If that doesn't work, then I might suggest you try another major.

- I'm sorry but I don't do 101 Level courses anymore......

[DeSwiss]

9. Well good.

- I love art. Here's some for ya!





They lied to us. There are no mistakes in life, so have at it.......

[DeSwiss]

12. Here's the other side:

But remember, it can become a trap because it repeats itself and we think that's ''REALITY.''

[ballyhoo]

15. Excellent, DeSwiss...101 courses might

be difficult for her on some things though.

[PatrickforO]

20. I hear what you're saying about the people WORKING for the media - those who

produce the stories; the camerapeople, computer folks, clerks, etc. However, those who OWN the media are in fact the <1%. Consider Rupert Murdoch. He has final say in what his networks put out.

I think the person who called the media the <1% was making the point that corporate oligarchs exert direct or indirect censorship control over what is published or aired.

An example: my wife and I were watching the documentary 'The Sixties.' It's pretty well done, and the episode we were watching was about the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights movement. The media was very segregated at that time, particularly in Mississippi. They would only report negative things about civil rights activists, ridicule them or downplay them, and were virulently pro-segregation. Medgar Evers demanded equal time on the air. Because of the 'fairness doctrine,' stations had to give him time, and a few weeks later he was murdered by a Klan coward.

The national media at that time at least made the effort to report news, and when Bull Connor and the rest of the bigots brought out the vicious dogs and firehoses to torment black children, Americans throughout the nation were offended by the footage - they saw what was ACTUALLY going on and went south in droves to help the civil rights movement.

Now, fast forward just under 2 decades on that unhappy day in January 1981 when Ronald Reagan injected himself into the White House like a plague bacillus. One of his first acts was to overturn the 'fairness doctrine.' This opened the way for giants like Walter Winchell, Cronkite and the rest to be replaced by propagandists like Limbaugh, Krystal and the Fox News gang.

I would aver that the today's national media tend to report things and highlight 'issues' that keep money flowing to the military-industrial-security complex Ike first warned us about.

As to the tragic killings of Palestinians, do you really think most Americans value their lives as highly as our own? This is the problem, you see - the 'enemy' is a shadow one, labeled 'terrorists.' As long as we dehumanize them (consider the brave 'patriotic' Americans demonstrating against that busload of kids at the border) - as long as the enemy has no face, then it is easy not to value their lives as highly as our own. Yet in the eyes of many on this earth, it is we who are the real terrorists. Again, consider our drone policies.

[ellenrr]

24. well-put nt

[Snoopy 7]

22. Controlled Media

Here is why people correctly tell other that our present "media" is nothing but a propaganda machine. Before the times of President Ronald Regan we had in the level of 10 thousand owners of TV media, today we have 5 or 6 owners. They regulate the media you can go to different stations and hear the exact conversations going on, coincidence (?) I don't think so. Then we have the mixture of the TV, RADIO & PRINT media at one time if you owned a TV station in one city you couldn't own a RADIO or PRINT media this kept "news" from being controlled those days are over. Instead of fight each other, what they (1%) want we should unite and gain our Country back. Why was it that the "Bush administration" told over 930? lies to get us into Iraq and the media never caught on, or didn't want to. Or why there would be 10s of thousands of "liberal/progressives" marching in Washington and it wasn't covered yet there would be 3-5 hundred ''Tea Partyers'' and every station carried it, look it up become smarter quit being lead... this some of the reasons why people tell others that presently the media is a propaganda machine.

[DeSwiss]

7. Damn you Norway!!!!

[tclambert]

11. I think it's more like one Australian American--Rupert Murdoch.

[KoKo]

13. Because ABC's Diane Sawyer LIED! And the MASSES who WATCH HER...SUCKED IT UP...Here:

ABC News Apologizes After Making Big Israel-Palestine Error like Faux News makes Constantly!

Video and Photo of ABC Switching Palestinian Deaths for Israeli Deaths in Photo and Video...Which they had to APOLOGIZE FOR..according to "HUFF POST":



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025223537

[TygrBright]

16. Probably the same reason they don't care about dead Americans.

See:

"gun violence"
"uninsured untreated illness"
etc.

helpfully,
Bright

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Because God chose the Jews....

I read it in a book.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. Okay,...someone SAID it was in a book,......somewhere.

[McCamy Taylor]

18. They are poor. The poor do not count. They are fodder.

If a poor person commits any minor crime against the property of the rich, of course the poor must go to jail for a long, long time.

If the rich are found guilty of taking huge sums of money, the public shame is punishment enough.

If a single rich person dies, it is a terrible tragedy.

If a hundred poor people die, it is landfill.

[PatrickforO]

21. You've got that right. As a nation, America is quite exceptional at two things:

1) punishing the poor
2) killing lots of people really fast

And we are kept ignorant enough by the corporatist propaganda our media feeds us to beat our chests and be 'patriotic' while being encouraged by our popular culture not to delve too deeply into what is actually happening. God forbid we should begin looking at what our politicians DO instead of what they SAY, which is duly and uncritically reported by the talking heads.

[cprise]

25. What passes for "analysis" of TPTB in our media

usually amounts to uncritically buying into the politicians/executives stated intentions and never considering ulterior motives. Then when they repeatedly screw the populace, there is this good-little-boyscout reaction of perplexity as they describe how the hapless power broker failed in his/her intended mission yet again.

It was never worse than during the Bush years, IMO... follow the White House narrative or get fired.

[gtar100]

19. Insanity. Just like the way they reported Iraqis the US military killed.

In the right wing black and white world view, they have to pick sides even when *sides* are precisely what is wrong with their perspective. What's so difficult about seeing everyone as human? Not difficult for you and me but for those who seek to gain at the expense of others, they have to do all they can to marginalize and dehumanize those they hurt. One would think being on the hurt end of persecution might give perspective and promote empathy. But apparently not.

[cprise]

23. Wasn't it the US that said 'you're with us or against us?'