This article should be getting far more traction! An extremely important post, but of course it doesn’t align with the general public’s scrolling for the sensational. Like they don’t have time to think or care about anything, just react. In any case, I want to point out that it’s not just “white” reporters who are acting this way, but mainstream “journalists” of all colors and ethnicities. What they have in common is getting the “feeling” that saying anything positive about Palestinians can lead to something bad or threatening to them and certainly their career. These are the “mainstream” of course; and even those who occasionally approach the life-threatening (so they’d like us to think or feel) subject of the genocide by Israel of Palestinians (without the forbidden “g-word”) can expect their stories to be downgraded and appear in some obscure page of the print version, if at all. Self-interest usually trumps compassion and courage to do what’s right—what EVERYONE KNOWS is right—because this exact behavior is promoted and deemed A-OK, given examples of entertainers and successful CEOs whose wealth and power is only now being reconsidered as maybe not a sign of their being good or worthy but maybe part of something working to harm us.
Thus you find all kinds of mainstream journalists who are “successful” cautious in their approach. Notably, Jews are allowed to stand for truth without the same level of threat. But not always; remember the brave Senator Paul Wellstone whose entire family was killed in an aerial “accident” that was no accident. He invoked the actual Judaic religion, which most of Zionism has some issues with (those pesky moral commandments), in a powerful speech for NOT going to war with Iraq. Apparently they wanted to make sure THAT didn’t happen again. There may be other issues involved as well.
On the rest, It already happens. I've worked behind the scenes in the newsrooms. There are stories already lifted over others, promoted more times in a day than others, there are constant debates about what language to use, what to show, what to blur, and so on. At the end of the day, the final decisions follow a standard often set by a board or the CEOs who have little to no news experience but are wealthy conglomerates who prefer to invest and benefit from Zionistic lobbies, investors and/or businesses and therefore stories must be packaged and sold a certain way to get them end game. The journalists on the ground, some are able to fight, some are not, and those with the most privilege should be fighting.Activism SHOULD cost you something. Journalists KNOW this. The truth COSTS, it's why they call go through hostile environment trainings. Accountability is necessary now.
re: Jewish people standing with Palestinians ARE facing backlash, a lot of it, there have been arrests in the U.S. in Germany, in Israel itself. It's costing them family ties and so on.
Again the question to ask one self is: if you truly believe in this, what is it it costing you? Nothing? Not much? Then it's closer to complicity. Silence is complicity.
Agree 100%! I’m no journalist but definitely in the activist sphere and I can feel the thrashing tails of the guilty who are suddenly finding themselves starting to sink in a downward spiral despite half of the ppl in the U.S. acting oblivious. It’s always being unafraid of the consequences. All that’s asked of us is to work for actual justice as best we can. So far I’m too low profile to matter but that itself may be some algorithm making me invisible. Thanks for your voice.
This article should be getting far more traction! An extremely important post, but of course it doesn’t align with the general public’s scrolling for the sensational. Like they don’t have time to think or care about anything, just react. In any case, I want to point out that it’s not just “white” reporters who are acting this way, but mainstream “journalists” of all colors and ethnicities. What they have in common is getting the “feeling” that saying anything positive about Palestinians can lead to something bad or threatening to them and certainly their career. These are the “mainstream” of course; and even those who occasionally approach the life-threatening (so they’d like us to think or feel) subject of the genocide by Israel of Palestinians (without the forbidden “g-word”) can expect their stories to be downgraded and appear in some obscure page of the print version, if at all. Self-interest usually trumps compassion and courage to do what’s right—what EVERYONE KNOWS is right—because this exact behavior is promoted and deemed A-OK, given examples of entertainers and successful CEOs whose wealth and power is only now being reconsidered as maybe not a sign of their being good or worthy but maybe part of something working to harm us.
Thus you find all kinds of mainstream journalists who are “successful” cautious in their approach. Notably, Jews are allowed to stand for truth without the same level of threat. But not always; remember the brave Senator Paul Wellstone whose entire family was killed in an aerial “accident” that was no accident. He invoked the actual Judaic religion, which most of Zionism has some issues with (those pesky moral commandments), in a powerful speech for NOT going to war with Iraq. Apparently they wanted to make sure THAT didn’t happen again. There may be other issues involved as well.
re: traction: feel free to share it!
On the rest, It already happens. I've worked behind the scenes in the newsrooms. There are stories already lifted over others, promoted more times in a day than others, there are constant debates about what language to use, what to show, what to blur, and so on. At the end of the day, the final decisions follow a standard often set by a board or the CEOs who have little to no news experience but are wealthy conglomerates who prefer to invest and benefit from Zionistic lobbies, investors and/or businesses and therefore stories must be packaged and sold a certain way to get them end game. The journalists on the ground, some are able to fight, some are not, and those with the most privilege should be fighting.Activism SHOULD cost you something. Journalists KNOW this. The truth COSTS, it's why they call go through hostile environment trainings. Accountability is necessary now.
re: Jewish people standing with Palestinians ARE facing backlash, a lot of it, there have been arrests in the U.S. in Germany, in Israel itself. It's costing them family ties and so on.
Again the question to ask one self is: if you truly believe in this, what is it it costing you? Nothing? Not much? Then it's closer to complicity. Silence is complicity.
Agree 100%! I’m no journalist but definitely in the activist sphere and I can feel the thrashing tails of the guilty who are suddenly finding themselves starting to sink in a downward spiral despite half of the ppl in the U.S. acting oblivious. It’s always being unafraid of the consequences. All that’s asked of us is to work for actual justice as best we can. So far I’m too low profile to matter but that itself may be some algorithm making me invisible. Thanks for your voice.
profile not required, just keep using your Voice and thanks for being part of the movement.