"Buried in the messages between National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other cabinet members is a horrible demonstration of narrative engineering.

"While the legacy media fixates on ‘classified information’, the real story is actually not the incompetence of these people but instead how they casually discussed spinning the bombing of Yemen—an already battered and famine-ravaged nation—into a palatable story for the American and global public. Let’s have a look":
https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/how-to-sell-a-massacre by Deaglan O'Mulrooney 🧶

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Between 2023, October 7 and November 24, the New York Times had described Israeli deaths as a “massacre” on 53 occasions and those of Palestinians just once.
In November 2023, the journalists were distributed directives to avoid the terms “genocide”, “ethnic cleansing”, “occupied territory”. The memo instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/

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'It takes a critical eye to understand how reporting can be used to frame events, especially in the Middle East. As most pieces of journalism don’t receive as much scrutiny as “Screams Without Words,” it is our hope that the detailed analysis here offers the reader some tools they can apply to any media they consume.'

Feminist Solidarity Network for Palestine, 2023: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-helps-israel-weaponize-rape-allegations-against-palestinians @palestine

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