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In reply to the discussion: Do you support the IDF action in Gaza? [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)'If it bleeds, it leads' is the established media mantra, and a couple million slowly starving Palestinians isn't nearly as 'coverage-worthy' as missiles and rockets going back and forth.
I think the internet is a big reason as to why we're getting any reporting that's sympathetic to the people dying at all. While the US government and the big media concerns have been planted about as firmly as possible in the 'Israel can do no wrong' camp for half a century, younger people online are far more skeptical of simply being handed a narrative, and have noticed who keeps losing land, who keeps dying, whose houses, schools, and hospitals keep getting destroyed. The Israeli RWers are every bit as bad as the old Cold Warriors of US politics, for whom violence is the solution to every problem.