*Pro-Israeli Media Bias Is Real And Deliberate*

*From The Ramparts*
Junious Ricardo Stanton
*Pro-Israeli Media Bias Is Real And Deliberate*

“Media bias does not occur in random fashion; rather it moves in the
same overall direction again and again, favoring management over labor,
corporations over corporate critics, affluent whites over inner-city
poor, officialdom over protesters, the two-party monopoly over leftist
third parties, privatization and free market ‘reforms’ over public
sector development, U.S. dominance of the Third World over revolutionary
or populist social change, nation-security policy over critics of that
policy, and conservative commentators and columnists like Rush Limbaugh
and George Will over progressive or populist ones like Jim Hightower and
Ralph Nader (not to mention more radical ones). The built-in biases of
the corporate mainstream media faithfully reflect the dominant ideology,
seldom straying into territory that might cause discomfort to those who
hold political and economic power, including those who own the media or
advertise in it.” Methods of Media Manipulation by Michael Parenti from
the book *20 years of Censored News* by Carl Jensen and Project Censored
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/MediaManip_Parenti.

I went to Virginia for a family reunion last week. While relaxing in the
hotel I was channel surfing and came across one of the corporate
propaganda cable stations I think it was Fox News and they were actively
rationalizing Israel’s bombardment of Lebanese civilian neighborhoods.
Next I turned on CNN and there was Lou Dobbs (supposedly one of the good
guys) speaking with a Lebanese ambassador attempting to get the man to
denounce Hezbollah and make the Lebanese people who are the victims the
criminals. To the ambassador’s credit he was having none of it and
remained steadfast pointing to Israel’s fifty-eight year history as a
ruthless aggressor engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide. Shortly
thereafter I turned the television off. The latest crisis in the “Middle
East” is more of the same ol’ okey-doke where the corporate mind control
apparatus goes into over-drive to demonize Arabs and Muslims while
depicting the Ashkenazim invader/settlers as the rightful heirs to the
land who are merely defending their right to survive. Implicit in the
propaganda is the preposterous notion the Ashkenazim are God’s chosen
people and their “Promised Land”, stretches from the Nile to the
Euphrates Rivers.

No one in their right mind would ever deny there is a bias in the US
media favoring Israel. The media makes it seem Israel’s interests and
the interests of the West are identical when in fact, other than the
racist violence directed towards people of color, they are not always
the same. Meanwhile this same media demonizes and vilifies Arabs and
Muslims the same way the US media dehumanized and denigrated Native
Americans and Africans in years past. As far as the US media is
concerned, Israel can do no wrong, no matter what they do, no matter how
repugnant and ruthless their policies and actions are. The US mind
control apparatus is spinning Israel’s latest aggression which by the
way; was planned long before Hezbollah engaged, killed and captured (
they did not kidnap) Israeli soldiers and tank crews that knowingly (and
probably deliberately) come into Lebanon territory as purely defensive!?
Meanwhile the rest of the world that has not been subjected to the
Zionist media blackouts, suppression and propaganda like we have here,
sees the massive carnage Israel is inflicting on innocent civilians in
Lebanon and their critical civilian infrastructure and the US uncritical
support of the carnage as the same ol same ol’. Of course the US media
sycophants justify Israel’s overkill, their use of high tech jets, tanks
and heavy ordnance missiles because Hezbollah has fired “rockets” (which
are nowhere near as lethal as the advanced weaponry and heavy ordnance
Israel is using) into Israeli territory.

If it weren’t for the Internet or satellite television AmeriKKKans would
not know or see the slaughter and havoc Israel has unleashed on Beirut
and Gaza. Certainly one will neither see nor hear any reports that
depict the level of violence from a Lebanese or Palestinian perspective
in the US media . The news is almost always totally lopsided in favor of
Israel. However this bias will not alter reality, just as the corporate
media cheerleaders for the NeoCon debacle in Iraq has not altered the
reality there or in Afghanistan or Haiti, three failed examples of Bu$h
and Co.’s imperialistic regime change policies. “Not unlike Fox News and
CNN, Mr. Uygur puts forward the distortion, in fact a lie, that Hamas
and Hezbollah ‘started the hostilities,’ thus legitimizing Israel’s
criminal and murderous behavior. As usual, the corporate media, and this
includes the Young Turks and Sirius Satellite Radio, ignore the fact
both Hamas and Hezbollah are resistance movements, completely legitimate
under international law... Of course, lobbing rockets at Israeli
citizens is a violation of this principle, but ‘kidnaping’ Israeli
soldiers—who were, regardless of the lies spun by the corporate media,
on the Lebanese side of the border when they were captured—is legal, as
all sides in a conflict routinely take prisoners of war. As well, the
puny rockets of Hezbollah, based on seventy year old technology, pale in
comparison to Israel’s high-tech munitions, provided by the American tax
payer, a chump as usual. http://kurtnimmo.com

If you want to really know what’s going on in the world, turn off the
mainstream media, put down the New York Times, the Washington Post or
their clones and search the news stands and the Internet for reliable
sources of information. You can also listen to short wave radio,
Internet radio or glean your news from media not as biased or distorted
as the lap dogs for the NeoCon war/ethnic cleansing agenda. Make no
mistake the bias is real and deliberate. The good news is we don’t have
to go for the okey-doke.

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