Frankly, I don't think it's much of a secret that corporate media has for the most part, egregiously drop the ball when covering noted fascist and former US President Donald Trump in our current political environment; in fact, I'd suggest that they've spilled more ink talking about their own failures in this regard, than they have discussing how they intent to address the problem. Many observers have chalked this up to a series of mistakes, or structural deficiencies in the modern news industry, but when most of the mainstream media remains completely silent while Trump openly endorses a genocide in Gaza, being conducted by the military of US ally Israel, well "oops, we screwed up" simply doesn't hold enough water.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-encourages-genocide-against-palestinians-saying-finish-the-problem/
The short story here is that just before sweeping the GOP Primaries on Super Tuesday, a Fox News host asked Trump directly "are you on-board with the way the [Israel Defense Force] is taking the fight to Gaza?” Trump, who has by and large avoiding having to answer questions on the subject as part of a clear political strategy to appeal to American voters tired of the imperialism that he himself nevertheless supports, answered: "You’ve got to finish the problem," and then noted his administration's vociferous support for the settler colonial, apartheid state of Israel and its horrifying actions against Palestinians in Gaza.
"In additional comments regarding Israel’s attacks, Trump appeared unwilling to differentiate between the governing body of Hamas and the Palestinian population more generally. He went on to claim that, were he still president, the October 7 attack never would have happened, and that Hamas only attacked Israel because of Biden’s purported weakness."
Despite the fact that this is a US presidential candidate, and a former American president no less, implicitly endorsing genocide in broad daylight on Fox News, these statements didn't merit so much as a comment in the vast majority of mainstream news outlets; at least in America. This is of course because supporting a genocide in Gaza is in fact a mainstream, bipartisan position in American politics and a media complex that has been eagerly justifying violence against Palestinian people, including thousands of children, as a response to the actions of Hamas, has no reasonable way to criticize Trump for simply upping the stakes with more overtly genocidal rhetoric. This is the idea that "if we're all guilty, then no one is guilty" playing out on a grand scale; even if that means failing to report on Trump's bloodthirst and genocidal transgressions entirely.
This isn't about the structure of the news industry, and it's not about the mistakes of a media class that takes its eye of the ball far too frequently for the health of a "liberal democracy" under assault by the forces of fascism. They didn't tell you that Trump endorsed wiping out the Palestinian people because the media itself is already engaged in manufacturing consent to accomplish that very same objective. This wasn't a failure of journalism, but rather a failure of human decency; and that decision was made on purpose.
#Gaza #Genocide #Trump #Media
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