In this good piece in the NY Times, it once again becomes clear that Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an Israeli bullet. The problem is that even when things are reported truthfully, it doesn't matter.
Many media watchdogs like Jay Rosen and Dan Froomkin have been rightfully calling out the media for years for the faulty way they often frames things, hiding behind both-sideism and faux objectivity. These things helped give us Trump and, in early days, gave quasi-legitimacy to the Big Lie.
But the pessismistic side of me believes that in the end it doesn't matter. It's easy to see that Trump side of it. But it's been clearly demonstrated that both Saudi Arabia and Israel are somewhere between ho-hum and downright complicit in the murder of journalists, but the Foreign Policy Blob under Biden is no different than under Trump. Nothing in our foreign policy will change vis-a-vis these two countries, no matter what they do. Indeed, if anything, any criticism of Israel will be called anti-Semitism even more than before.
So, I hope that Rosen, Froomkin, and others keep up the good fight. But I fear that it doesn't matter.
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