The Washington Post is flashing the moniker “Democracy dies in Darkness.” Jonathan S. Tobin who doesn’t like what the Washington Post and other journalistic outlets have morphed into, is countering with the claim that Journalism is dying in broad daylight. But the fact is that Jewish lies killed journalism long ago, and “truth” is now working to resuscitate it.
To
make his point, Jonathan Tobin wrote an article under the title: “Journalism is
dying in broad daylight,” and had it published on June 18, 2021 in The Jewish
News Syndicate. The subtitle accompanying that title, is a long blurb that
tells what prompted Tobin to write this article. It goes like this: “An open
letter from journalists demanding bias against Israel shows how toxic leftist
ideologies are conquering newsrooms and why faith in the press may already be a
lost cause”.
Early
on in the discussion, Tobin describes the five legs upon which stands his view as
to where journalism is at today. Here are those legs:
One:
Today, many news reporters have become opinion writers on the side, which would
have been considered abandonment of professional responsibility by yesterday’s
journalists, no matter their political point of view.
Here,
Jonathan Tobin has recited a fundamental principle of journalism that was
strictly adhered to in the past. In fact, when a non-Jew deviated the slightest
from that norm, he would hear from his editor, also from a thousand
hammer-wielding Jewish columnists who would repeatedly mug him till he
apologized and “corrected” his non-mistake so as to correspond with the Jewish
propaganda line.
Two:
Instead of a coherent view of a complex war against Zionism and an effort to
destroy the one Jewish state, many in the press served up easy-to-understand
stories about underdogs and bad guys.
As
if to blow up his first point, and reveal the stark hypocrisy that makes-up the
Jewish argument, Tobin is here revealing that what’s expected from journalists
in any ordinary discussion, does not apply when the discussion involves Jewish
or Israeli matters. As can be seen with absolute clarity, speaking for the
Jews, Tobin wants it so that a simple news item, such as saying: “I saw an
Israeli soldier shoot a Palestinian child dead,” to be woven into “a coherent view
of a complex war against Zionism and the effort to destroy the one Jewish state.”
If this is not opinion mixed with news, what is?
Three:
That stand reinforces the myths demonizing or delegitimizing Israelis and Jews
while robbing the Palestinians of any agency about their fate was a consequence
of lazy journalism and a lack of detailed knowledge about the subject.
Here,
Jonathan Tobin laments that the faithful telling of the facts about Israeli
activities in occupied Palestine without putting them in a context that
corresponds with Jewish propaganda, leads to the demonization or
delegitimization of Israelis and Jews. He attributes this state of affairs to
the “lazy journalism and lack of detailed knowledge about the subject,” of
those whom he says, should be neutral journalists and not advocates. But if
they are not going to advocate, why do they need detailed knowledge of what’s
behind what they see and simply report without prejudice?
Four:
Example of the New York Times’s act of incitement against Israel in which it
highlighted the pictures of children killed by Israel, illustrates anti-Israel
bias. A new mindset has discarded objectivity in the belief that journalists
must advocate for a particular point of view.
To
reinforce the previous point, Tobin cites the example of the New York Times on
whose front page, pictures of Palestinian children killed by Israel, were
highlighted. He cries out that such act, incites against Israel, and goes on to
explain that it is caused by a “mindset that discarded objectivity in the
belief that journalists must advocate for a particular point of view.” So, here
it is, speaking in the name of Jews, Tobin wants Journalism to sanitize the
real situations before publishing them, because reality incites the audience
against Israel. Therefore, according to Tobin, journalism must lie by omission
to protect Israel from the consequences of its crimes.
Five:
Taken out of the context of history, the Palestinians’ repeated rejections of
peace and an independent state in 2000, 2001 and 2008—what you get is a
caricature of reality that ignores anything beyond images of Palestinian
victims.
When
you’ve gone as far as Jonathan Tobin has—dressing up a mythical narrative—and
when you have the narrative stand on a pile of mutilated history, you must find
someone on whom to blame it all. You need to do so because if you don’t, the
Jews of America and the Israelis will be the ones to take the blame. Well,
being the Jew that his is, Tobin found the perfect group on whom to blame
Israel’s horrors: He pointed the finger at the Palestinian victims themselves.
How so very Jewish!
One
of the reasons for writing his article, and a major one at that, is that
Jonathan Tobin, like many of his ilk, was shaken by, “an open letter signed by
more than 500 journalists in which they call for a change in the way that
Israel is covered … They believe that all stories about Israelis and
Palestinians should be told from the point of view of the latter,” says
Jonathan Tobin.
Well
then, given that the point of view of the Palestinians consists only of the
facts that Journalists see on the ground when they visit Gaza and the West
Bank, and given that the point of view of Jews consists of blending a mutilated
history with contorted logic, we must agree with Tobin’s conclusion which he
expressed at the end of the article. It is that the half century of Jewish
efforts to kill American Journalism and replace it with Talmudic-style
mythologies, is a lost cause.
May it so remain to eternity.