{"id":6214,"date":"2025-05-01T00:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2025-05-01T00:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:43:38","slug":"gaza-reporting-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2025-05-01\/gaza-reporting-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The drip-drip of slanted Gaza reporting erodes our sense of right and wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media’s role is to disorientate us, so we disbelieve what we can see with our own eyes: that there is a genocide going on, and our own leaders are actively assisting it<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\"\"\n

It is quite possible to take apart virtually any report in the Guardian on Gaza \u2013 as I have done with a story in today\u2019s paper<\/a> \u2013 and identify the same kinds of journalistic malpractice.<\/p>\n

Further, I could have taken any paragraph in the article and parsed it in much the same way as I do below. But for the sake of brevity, I have selected four paragraphs (each in bold) that illustrate the abysmal state of reporting about Gaza by Britain\u2019s supposedly most serious, liberal newspaper.<\/p>\n

Note that these misrepresentations are included in a story that is ostensibly critical of Israel. A new report by the United Nations accuses Israel of physically abusing and torturing its staff, including teachers, doctors and social workers, and of using others as human shields.<\/p>\n

The language and framing used by the Guardian below serves to dilute the impact of the UN report, and thereby give Israel\u2019s behaviour far more legitimacy than it deserves.<\/p>\n

“The Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Tuesday that Israel had released a medic held since a deadly and hugely controversial attack by Israeli troops on ambulances in southern Gaza on 23 March.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHugely controversial\u201d is the Guardian’s cowardly way of referring to an indisputable atrocity. Israel murdered 15 paramedics and fire crew members in a three and half minute hail of bullets on clearly marked emergency vehicles. Israel then crushed the vehicles, and buried them and the crews’ bodies to hide the evidence.<\/p>\n

In what world is that only “controversial”?<\/p>\n

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Israel’s execution of 15 emergency workers a month ago is incontrovertibly established. So why are the Guardian and other outlets still so ready to fudge the issue?<\/p>\n

My latest article: https:\/\/t.co\/kpbNJPSBBO<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/hJupgdUZEw<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) April 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n