‘A Lot Going On In Middle East’ Reports Media Not Wanting To Say Israel Has Killed 61 People In 48 Hours
“IT JUST starts to sound a little damning when identify the facts over and over and over again for viewers, you know?” said one weary news editor working for one of the world’s biggest broadcasters, exhausted by attempts to frame Israel’s war crimes using neutral, dispassionate language that obscures the source of the killing, bombing and starving.
Not wanting to incur the wrath of people who think accurately reporting on events is the most objectionable thing a journalist could do, newsrooms increasingly work overtime to adopt a passive voice so that ‘Israeli forces murder 16-year-old girl in West Bank’ reads closer to ‘Girl killed in incident, mystery abounds’.
“Once we get past the awkward headline bit we are afforded room by bosses to speculate on why Israel may have thought killing all these innocent people is actually part of a coherent plan and not just the war crime Olympics, so that’s something,” added one journalist.
The latest attempt to avoid regrettable instances presenting facts on the news, some outlets are set to run a continuous breaking news ticker listing the words ‘a lot going on in the Middle East’.
“When Hamas killed six hostages, and a gunman killed three people at the Jordanian border; that stuff is easier because you just say ‘Israelis murdered by terrorist gunmen’ nice and clean and clear. You don’t exhaust yourself avoiding calling a spade a spade like we do in the case of a Palestinian child who has had their head blown off by an IDF sniper,” shared one journalist who dies inside every time they reach for ‘avoid apportioning blame for thing IDF are proudly taking credit for’ handbook.
UPDATE: Despite large sections of the Israeli press reporting ‘What The Fuck Is Netanyahu Doing, He’s Crazy’, western outlets will stick to their current reporting style.
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