On 01/02/2024 17:17, GB wrote:
> On 31/01/2024 18:45, Muhammad wrote:
>
>> This cover extends to the majority of 'western' media. CNN admitted
>> all their stories on the matter, first need to be approved by the IDF
>> before being aired.
>
> I am extremely surprised about that. Do you have a reliable reference,
> please?
CNN RUNS GAZA COVERAGE PAST JERUSALEM TEAM OPERATING UNDER SHADOW OF IDF
CENSOR :
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/
"*Like all foreign news organizations operating in Israel*, CNN’s
Jerusalem bureau is subject to the rules of the Israel Defense Forces’s
censor, which dictates subjects that are off-limits for news
organizations to cover, and censors articles it deems unfit or unsafe to
print..."
"In order to obtain a press pass in Israel, foreign reporters *must
sign* a document agreeing to abide by the dictates of the censor..."
"...On top of the official and unspoken rules for reporting from Israel,
CNN recently issued directives to its staff on *specific language to use
and avoid when reporting on violence in the Gaza Strip*..."
"...sent an email to staff outlining how they should write about the war"
To speak and write in terms that portray:
"Hamas controls the government in Gaza and we should describe the
Ministry of Health as ‘Hamas-controlled’ whenever we are referring to
casualty statistics or other claims related to the present conflict. If
the underlying statistics have been derived from the ministry of Health
in Gaza, we should note that fact and that this part of the Ministry is
‘Hamas-controlled’ even if the statistics are released by the West Bank
part of the ministry *or elsewhere*.”
This is done to question the death toll, and bring forth the idea, we're
not sure how many are dead, it could be less. The numbers could be
wrong, perhaps children and women aren't dying in those numbers.
It is a deliberately-planned systematic racist narrative purported by
many sections of western media. And, many of you will know, and heard
media sources, every time the Gaza death toll is mentioned, state those
numbers are from the 'Hamas run, health ministry'.
However, those racist bigots know, that in previous Israeli 'mowing the
lawn' murder activities, the numbers given by the Gaza health ministry
were corroborated by the UN and other independent organizations. Due to
the racist minded obfuscation of western media sources, the Gaza health
ministry painstakingly started to give out Israeli given ID numbers of
the Gazan's that have been killed. Yet, many western media continued to
question the death toll.
"...but couches [essentially refuse to discuss / gloss over] that
responsibility in the need to “cover the broader current geopolitical
and historical context of the story” while continuing to “remind our
audiences of the immediate cause of this current conflict, namely the
Hamas attack and mass murder and kidnap of Israeli civilians.."
"...*Also in October, CNN hired a former IDF soldier to contribute
writing and reporting to CNN’s war coverage*...Since then, her name has
appeared on dozens of stories citing the IDF spokesperson and relaying
information about the IDF’s operations in the Gaza Strip"
"According to her Facebook profile, Tamar Michaelis served in the IDF’s
Spokesperson Unit, a division of the Israeli military charged with
carrying out positive PR both domestically and abroad"
*"The CNN staff member described how the policy works in practice.
“‘War-crime’ and ‘genocide’ are taboo words,” the person said. “Israeli
bombings in Gaza will be reported as ‘blasts’ attributed to nobody,
until the Israeli military weighs in to either accept or deny
responsibility*...Quotes and information provided by Israeli army and
government officials tend to be approved quickly, while those from
Palestinians tend to be heavily scrutinized and slowly processed."
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All CNN Gaza Coverage Seen by Bureau Monitored by IDF Before Publication
:
https://truthout.org/articles/report-all-cnn-gaza-coverage-seen-by-bureau-monitored-by-idf-before-publication/
The coverage of ALL journalists, no matter where they're reporting on
Israeli and Palestine issues from, needs to be first verified.
Other media outlets, have decided to operate from outside of Israel to
bypass IDF censorship of their reporting.
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First, tell me: do you condemn Hamas!! - Yes.
Moving onto other stories...