I spent a good part of the day watching American television to see and assess how the media covers the unfolding events in the Middle East. I could not divorce what I was absorbing from what I had learned about American television decades ago.
I must say in this regard that on the whole, the
comparison yielded a positive result in the sense that most of the media showed
signs indicating they want to present the events in a balanced way. Whether or
not they fully succeeded is another matter.
Despite those signs, however, someone that watches
American television for the first time, and sees its coverage of the war on
Gaza, will come to believe that the broadcasts emanate in Israel, more specifically
in the ministry of military propaganda of that faraway entity.
In fact, seeing Israelis in uniform, who speak in
perfect America accent, “explain” what Israel is doing and hopes to accomplish,
no one can escape the conclusion that in this case, the Judeo-Zionists of the
world owned and operated the America media outlets. It is that not one
television channel, and not one show that I watched was rid of Americans in
Israeli uniform, who pretended to be full-blooded Israelis fighting for the survival
of an imagined people at risk of being made to disappear.
Amid the repetitive deliveries of this kind of
programing, one outlet stood then and stands now as the exception. It is not an
exception to welcome, let alone to cheer about; it is an exception to weep
about for, it alone seems capable of dragging America into the house of moral
prostitution. That outlet is Fox News which became so desperate trying to reverse
the trend of a growing antisemitism in America and the world, it committed an
act that sent journalism back to the Dark Ages.
What the Fox News network did was force all its
reporters to stop reporting on the events as they unfold, and speak instead in
the language of the spin doctors whose training has given them the power to
make anyone believe that an Israeli soldier who is taken prisoner by Hamas, is an
act of terrorism whereas a Palestinian family that is blown to kingdom come by
an Israel bomb, is an act of Jewish heroism that the world needs to learn about
and emulate.
In fact, a lamentable example is that of a
correspondent, stationed in Israel who used to give the news in a straightforward
manner, you see him now and hear him perform like a cog would when placed in
the massive Judeo-Israeli propaganda machine, and made to spin like a dog that’s
trying to catch its tail. He spews the spun lies that misinform and disinform
the audiences that trust Fox News.
But there again, you find the exception that makes the
rule. In fact, there are more than one exception working for that network. They
try everyday to render unto Cezar what is Cezar’s to remain faithful to their
profession while being loyal to an employer that is more fanatic about the need
to kill Palestinians than Hamas is fanatic about beating the Israeli military
machine.
Among those exceptions, one anchor at Fox News, who is a lawyer by training, stands out as remarkable. She is Shannon Bream who is animated by a disciplined mind and a logic that’s enjoyable to follow. If I have an advice to give her, it is that her polemics are so dense, she needs to slow down when speaking to give the listeners time to savour what she is saying.