And -a side issue-if you still think it’s reasonably safe to get your information from Wikipedia. The entries referring to the Israel -Gaza conflict have already been nibbled by a team of dedicated rewriters with no respect for the truth. They’ve been able to keep up such a flood of unverified statements because the editors have no time to verify their references. Cut one entry and another appears. Wikipedia was always at the mercy of original sin, and it’s been defeated, probably for ever.
Another source of misinformation and miseducation. When you get Israel wrong your credibility goes down the tubes. But our youngsters grow up on wikipedia and so join the stupid, ignorant, lazy and antisemitic group of people known as journalists. What a disgrace. One more way western society is going down the tubes. Good piece by the author.
So many ways that for so many reasons Westerners insist on allying themselves with people who want to kill us all. Maybe they should make plush dolls in the shape of terrorists since they love them so much. Always love your articles!
So publications lie? Use outrageously wrong statistics? What else is new...
I’ve been writing professionally – mostly as a freelancer - for over 40 years. As a journalist I fought with editors to include my research from sound, politically conservative sources to provide a piece with "balance". Too often I lost the fight. So I decided it was easier on my conscience (and my bank account) to chuck journalism completely. Find organizations with products and services I thought were worth promoting - and write for them.
Journalism has never been objective. A publication reflects the views of the publisher and the audience to which his advertising is directed. For many decades, what appealed to these publishers and audiences was Marxist messaging, carefully manipulated to resemble liberal humanism. It is lies packaged as sentimental pablum. And no one seems to care who is pushing the lies. Or even that they ARE lies. To the useful idiots who consume information, pablum is KING.
The Trump phenomenon has started to change this. Hopefully for the better. What we must guard against is exchanging one set of lies for another.
Thank you for setting out these facts so clearly. It had been shocking to sit and listen to these lies that are spewed out by Hamas. I have always believed that the IDF is the most careful and trustworthy army in the world. Now we have it in black and white.
Our leftist small town has one radio station that is non-underwritten and funded solely through its listeners. The only news show they broadcast is Democracy Now. Well, I don’t have to tell you all how that’s impacted our town. Thankfully we have a strong Jewish community speaking up for non biased reporting and also growing stronger through community programs and outreach. Still, a huge uphill battle.
My boy, another good essay identifying the group that is hurting us the most in the PR war. Mainstream media is the number one enemy. Iran is the physical enemy and MSM is the PR enemy.
Okay, I think we have regurgitated this problem and whined over this problem many times. So, what about solutions to this big problem?
The only thing that comes to mind is to give people choices. What are the biggest news outlets that do report fairly and honestly? I bet that if asked people to name Right Wing news outlets, the only one they would mention is Fox. What other big outlets are there? We have to promote them. We have to have a strategy. We have to switch people from WaPo, The NY Times, CNN to other outlets.
Our large Jewish organizations should work with those other outlets and do a promo that may go something like this .....
If you can show us that you have a subscription to the Washington Post, we will offer you a 6 month free subscription to "Whatever honest news outlet" ..... so that you evaluate real news compared to the lies you are getting from the Washington Post.
We can't just wait for people to find places like Substack and the Internet ... we have to be proactive.
Would love to see a list of fair and honest news sites which means not the "extreme right" kind of stuff but alternatives to MSM like the NY Post.
Would love to hear what readers here think are good and fair news outlets.
Have a good Shabbos Joshua and please dont stay out of jail.
I have not watched or listened to the MSM for the past five years. In the void Real America’s Voice and Newsmax emerged. Steve Bannon’s ‘War Room’ became my daily go-to check point. It was when the late night comics began Alinskite mocking of RAV that I was sure the left was finished. In 30 days you will see the candidates supported by RAV and Newsmax commentators standing behind POTUS Donald J. Trump. Some as appointees.
Israel and Bibi have no better friend.than the Trump/Vance administration.
excellent analysis Patricia. Dont like Real Americas Voice as they dont have a comment section. I enjoy and learn from comments so much. All the best papa j
I watch on cable and follow comments on X and Truth Social. I am excited to hear plans for organized RINO hunting followed by primaries for those not on board with the #47 agenda. It’s beginning to feel like sunshine. I am a not a Jew but am a fervent supporter of Israel and Zionism following an enlightening visit in 1968.
the Jewish Jew haters enable our enemies to wage war against us, to vilify and mock us, to find new ways to torment....this time we have a nation state who has changed the face of the Mid East despite all Harris Biden, Blinken warnings and threats....and "have a points".....among the Jewish haters are B. Sander, Ossoff, Raskin, and Stewart, beinart, plus the Ha Aretez B'tselem Israeli Jew haters......They'll say they are willing to tell the Jews what the Gentiles are unwilling (?) like lets say that punk from Britain John Oliver or the fraud Amenpour ...and to all of them I say go fcuk yourselves.
No matter what proof is presented, no matter what--the Jew-hating media (and Jew-haters in general) will NEVER believe the truth, NEVER support Israel, NEVER. You'll hear nothing or close to nothing about this from the media and the haters.
My argument being that the entity, in this case Hamas' and Hezbollah's responsibility to move civilians out of harms way when starting a war, NOT Israel's! And yet, they are doing the very exact opposite! Furthermore, when civilians allow terrorists to embed themselves with them, they very moment they do that, they cease to be civilians ands become enemy combatants, and as such, fair targets!
Thank you, Joshua, for breaking down the Hamas PR machine, which has been given much help from our Legacy media. If the US media gives us a way to gauge their bias, it is evident not much has changed, and those university protests (which are strangely quiet now), have now focused their attention on a new hero, the shooter of the CEO of United Healthcare. The cards, though, are beginning to fall one by one. The only thing Antony Blinken has said recently with any conviction in the past year is that, "Hamas realizes cavalry is not coming." Governments are now seeing the error of their ways, Canada and Germany, as examples. Israel has survived all of it and will continue to come out victorious. Am Yisrael Chai!
And -a side issue-if you still think it’s reasonably safe to get your information from Wikipedia. The entries referring to the Israel -Gaza conflict have already been nibbled by a team of dedicated rewriters with no respect for the truth. They’ve been able to keep up such a flood of unverified statements because the editors have no time to verify their references. Cut one entry and another appears. Wikipedia was always at the mercy of original sin, and it’s been defeated, probably for ever.
Another source of misinformation and miseducation. When you get Israel wrong your credibility goes down the tubes. But our youngsters grow up on wikipedia and so join the stupid, ignorant, lazy and antisemitic group of people known as journalists. What a disgrace. One more way western society is going down the tubes. Good piece by the author.
We need to flood all the socials with the facts and restack, repost as often as we can.
Unfortunately my friends, no one else outside of the choir will even see this score let alone sing this tune.
As I told Amnesty International when they asked me for a donation: "Hama and Hezbollah are committing geocide, NOT Israel!"
I would have said “Not only no but f*** no.”
Amnesty International has done wonderful things and were crucial in the defeat of Latinamerican fascist dictatorships in the 80's!
The same legacy media that covered up Biden’s senility accepted lies from Hamas on every aspect of this war
So many ways that for so many reasons Westerners insist on allying themselves with people who want to kill us all. Maybe they should make plush dolls in the shape of terrorists since they love them so much. Always love your articles!
So publications lie? Use outrageously wrong statistics? What else is new...
I’ve been writing professionally – mostly as a freelancer - for over 40 years. As a journalist I fought with editors to include my research from sound, politically conservative sources to provide a piece with "balance". Too often I lost the fight. So I decided it was easier on my conscience (and my bank account) to chuck journalism completely. Find organizations with products and services I thought were worth promoting - and write for them.
Journalism has never been objective. A publication reflects the views of the publisher and the audience to which his advertising is directed. For many decades, what appealed to these publishers and audiences was Marxist messaging, carefully manipulated to resemble liberal humanism. It is lies packaged as sentimental pablum. And no one seems to care who is pushing the lies. Or even that they ARE lies. To the useful idiots who consume information, pablum is KING.
The Trump phenomenon has started to change this. Hopefully for the better. What we must guard against is exchanging one set of lies for another.
Thank you for setting out these facts so clearly. It had been shocking to sit and listen to these lies that are spewed out by Hamas. I have always believed that the IDF is the most careful and trustworthy army in the world. Now we have it in black and white.
There is no distinction between al jazeera and western media outlets.
Why do Israelis seek to explain anything? Israel is the victim. Whatever the number of Gazans killed, it obviously isn’t enough
Our leftist small town has one radio station that is non-underwritten and funded solely through its listeners. The only news show they broadcast is Democracy Now. Well, I don’t have to tell you all how that’s impacted our town. Thankfully we have a strong Jewish community speaking up for non biased reporting and also growing stronger through community programs and outreach. Still, a huge uphill battle.
My boy, another good essay identifying the group that is hurting us the most in the PR war. Mainstream media is the number one enemy. Iran is the physical enemy and MSM is the PR enemy.
Okay, I think we have regurgitated this problem and whined over this problem many times. So, what about solutions to this big problem?
The only thing that comes to mind is to give people choices. What are the biggest news outlets that do report fairly and honestly? I bet that if asked people to name Right Wing news outlets, the only one they would mention is Fox. What other big outlets are there? We have to promote them. We have to have a strategy. We have to switch people from WaPo, The NY Times, CNN to other outlets.
Our large Jewish organizations should work with those other outlets and do a promo that may go something like this .....
If you can show us that you have a subscription to the Washington Post, we will offer you a 6 month free subscription to "Whatever honest news outlet" ..... so that you evaluate real news compared to the lies you are getting from the Washington Post.
We can't just wait for people to find places like Substack and the Internet ... we have to be proactive.
Would love to see a list of fair and honest news sites which means not the "extreme right" kind of stuff but alternatives to MSM like the NY Post.
Would love to hear what readers here think are good and fair news outlets.
Have a good Shabbos Joshua and please dont stay out of jail.
papa j
I have not watched or listened to the MSM for the past five years. In the void Real America’s Voice and Newsmax emerged. Steve Bannon’s ‘War Room’ became my daily go-to check point. It was when the late night comics began Alinskite mocking of RAV that I was sure the left was finished. In 30 days you will see the candidates supported by RAV and Newsmax commentators standing behind POTUS Donald J. Trump. Some as appointees.
Israel and Bibi have no better friend.than the Trump/Vance administration.
The comics aren’t laughing now.
excellent analysis Patricia. Dont like Real Americas Voice as they dont have a comment section. I enjoy and learn from comments so much. All the best papa j
I watch on cable and follow comments on X and Truth Social. I am excited to hear plans for organized RINO hunting followed by primaries for those not on board with the #47 agenda. It’s beginning to feel like sunshine. I am a not a Jew but am a fervent supporter of Israel and Zionism following an enlightening visit in 1968.
papa j - check out The Free Press. Enjoy your Shabbos .
Thanks Sherl my dear. I already subscribe. Wishing you Good Shabbos as well.
the Jewish Jew haters enable our enemies to wage war against us, to vilify and mock us, to find new ways to torment....this time we have a nation state who has changed the face of the Mid East despite all Harris Biden, Blinken warnings and threats....and "have a points".....among the Jewish haters are B. Sander, Ossoff, Raskin, and Stewart, beinart, plus the Ha Aretez B'tselem Israeli Jew haters......They'll say they are willing to tell the Jews what the Gentiles are unwilling (?) like lets say that punk from Britain John Oliver or the fraud Amenpour ...and to all of them I say go fcuk yourselves.
No matter what proof is presented, no matter what--the Jew-hating media (and Jew-haters in general) will NEVER believe the truth, NEVER support Israel, NEVER. You'll hear nothing or close to nothing about this from the media and the haters.
If you know who, please tell me. I don't know who is running the White House (isn't Biden) but they surely aren't friends of Jews/Israel.
Discouraging but true.
My argument being that the entity, in this case Hamas' and Hezbollah's responsibility to move civilians out of harms way when starting a war, NOT Israel's! And yet, they are doing the very exact opposite! Furthermore, when civilians allow terrorists to embed themselves with them, they very moment they do that, they cease to be civilians ands become enemy combatants, and as such, fair targets!
Thank you, Joshua, for breaking down the Hamas PR machine, which has been given much help from our Legacy media. If the US media gives us a way to gauge their bias, it is evident not much has changed, and those university protests (which are strangely quiet now), have now focused their attention on a new hero, the shooter of the CEO of United Healthcare. The cards, though, are beginning to fall one by one. The only thing Antony Blinken has said recently with any conviction in the past year is that, "Hamas realizes cavalry is not coming." Governments are now seeing the error of their ways, Canada and Germany, as examples. Israel has survived all of it and will continue to come out victorious. Am Yisrael Chai!
The MSM is parroting Hamas propaganda and statistics because it is institutionally against Israel.