Andrea Widburg writes for the American Thinker about the regrettable decline of legacy media outlets.
“In the Soviet Union, there is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia.” Readers of a certain age recognize that old joke, which played on the fact that the names of those two Soviet newspapers, when translated into English, meant “truth” and “news” respectively. Or, as the old exchange went: “How can you tell when a Soviet official is lying?” “When his lips move—or when you read Pravda.” Everyone understood that nothing in those party organs was believable.
The same is true for today’s leftist-controlled media, both at home and abroad. And today, I have two examples of the agendas that are pro-Islamic and, in the second case, deeply antisemitic. In each case, a misleading headline creates a powerful narrative image that his countered only if readers bother to scroll deep into the reports on the story. …
… For really big dishonesty, you need to go to media efforts to turn Hamas and its fellow travelers into victims, despite their openly stated and acted upon goal of slaughtering Jews and, eventually, Christians. At the same time, the Western media demonize while demonizing Israel, the only country in the history of the world that (stupidly) feeds its enemy.
In July, it was the New York Times making a martyred Madonna out of a Gazan woman holding her genetically ill child and implying that Israel was responsible for the child’s pathetic condition. This month, it’s the BBC which claims that an Italian hospital was unable to save the life of a “malnourished Gazan woman” —with the obvious implication that she’s the victim of the (fake) famine that Israel has alleged imposed on the enemy civilians it (stupidly) feeds. …
… The only difference between the Western media and the old-time Soviet media outlets is that, in the Soviet Union, many (maybe most) of those journalists wrote under duress, knowing that even a whiff of the truth could land them in the gulags.
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