100% agreed. The legacy press is undoubtedly the problem. So who in the legacy press makes or made the decision to change the narrative? Was it a committee, a group, an individual(s)? No one is raising their hand(s) to take responsibility. Are they getting their orders from someone else like a billionaire influencer, government agency, a political party, the White House, WEF? I see nothing published debating the merits of the argument. So once again it’s The Wizard of Oz diktat.
This might sound crazy, but it’s possible the decision makers are 20-something interns who were students at Columbia last year. I suspect there’s a dotted line from “Latinx” to “birthing person” to “Palestinian freedom fighters,” but it’s just a hunch.
I agree. I think it is because of the whole umbrella activism which has sprung up and how many of these groups get their funding (not just the front line funding but the slightly under the radar second tier funding). There is no real reason why people who are for fossil fuel free should be supporting Hamas (and indeed Iran which is v much not fossil fuel free) but they are. https://theecologist.org/2023/nov/07/just-stop-genocide was where I first encountered this and the fact that the XR apparatus had been taken over.
It will have to do with who sits on and lobbies for the changes, plus people in management not having a strong enough backbone to say no particularly when the pressure is coming from activist staff networks.
I stopped my years long subscription to print and on line NY Times after the blood libel toward Israel about the hospital bombed by Islamic jihad. Best money I ever saved.
I am going to offer a counter opinion. Not because I think Hamas are in any way deserving of sympathy or support. In my view, people who can carry out, with such evident relish, the depravity that we witnessed on Oct 7th need to be rendered incapable of ever doing so again. If the only way to achieve that is to exterminate them, then so be it.
I desperately wish there were another route that could be taken because, as with any war, non-combatants are going to get caught in the crossfire. Unfortunately, I don't really see any viable alternative to long-term peace in the region other than excising the cancer that is Hamas. It is sickening to see the carnage wrought both by the initial attack of Hamas and the subsequent response, but I do not draw a moral equivalence.
The problem I have with designating them as a 'terrorist' group is that the word terrorist conjures up an image of a small bunch of fringe nutters prepared to do evil to further their fringe and extremist causes. At least that's the image it conjures up for me.
The problem, however, is that Hamas are not some fringe group of dangerous weirdos; they are, or were, the *government* of Gaza, representing some 2 million people and duly elected back in 2006. The word 'terrorist' usually describes some rogue element operating, but Hamas can hardly be said to be this. The attacks of Oct 7th are best viewed as government *policy* and a declaration of war against Israel.
So, whilst I want to describe Hamas with the utter disgust they warrant, I'm not sure that calling them 'terrorists' as such is the right way to do it. Perhaps describing Gaza as a terroristic state within Israel would suffice?
Just when I thought MSM or so-called "Legacy" media was incapable of showing even less objectivity - they've reached a new low in choosing consciously NOT to refer to Hamas as the terrorist group that its actions clearly and unalterably show it to be as recently as October 7. This is beyond shameful - and it does beg the question how this has come to be among so many legacy media outlets.
We're in a time of war, and words are weapons to confuse and control the masses that are the enemy. This is a world war, and Americans are sleepwalking their way through it. CAPTURED is the keyword for these last days. It becomes more apparent with each passing day. The MSM is captured along with a plethora of other organizations, countries, leaders, and major international corporations. The love of money and the power it brings has come to a point of no return.
Fearmongering has been a massive success for the self-proclaimed Global elites and their minions. They no longer see a need for 8 Billion "useless mouths' and are moving along in their extermination of the human race. As Yuval Noah Harari stated, ENTER the robots and Transhumans (an improvement of God's design). He is a top advisor at the WEF World Economic Forum, A Satanic group of world leaders, scientists, "educators," Corporate heads, and even Hollywood elites, as well as Billionaires.
Captured in a world that is upside down, where Good is Bad, and Bad is Good, is another sign from God that it's Judgement time for America. With God, there are no coincidences, and his timeline is perfect. Calendars have been changed and manipulated over time, which creates confusion. However, the religious Hebrew calendar aligns perfectly with the signs God put there so we would know the time and seasons, seasons of times, not weather.
Great point you make, making clear the difference between a terrorist and a militant. These media outlets know this. They have deliberately chosen the incorrect term to please their readerships and keep subscriptions up. The absolute opposite of “neutrality.” I will not give them a pass and I’m so so so sick of this.
If words and their meanings matter, then it is our governments—as well as the corporations serving as the long arm of the state—propagating bloodshed not only in Gaza, but all the world over, all in the name of democracy while in reality little more than money laundering operations (as Julian Assange accurately described), determined to take away the rights of their own citizens one by one, which are the terrorists at work per the original definition of the word.
If the independent or dependent media are to use the word correctly, then they will describe the branches of our states advocating partisan bloodshed and tyranny as terrorists; not the Israeli intelligence created Hamas that was backed for many years by Netanyahu and Likud, much like the US propped up al-Qaeda and ISIS, all of whose more powerful benefactors deserve to be the objects of criticism for what the organisations they create do.
Anything else—including labelling of US enemies or whoever states want to designate as "terrorists"—is meaningless newspeak, and all entirely subjective besides with e.g MI6's IRA never being subject to the same designation in the public conscience or court of opinion. Gore Vidal described the reality of this indisputable historical fact well in his essay "Shredding of the Bill of Rights" recorded in The Last Empire (2001):
"It is nicely apt that the word “terrorist” (according to the OED) should have been coined during the French Revolution to describe “an adherent or supporter of the Jacobins, who advocated and practiced methods of partisan repression and bloodshed in the propagation of the principles of democracy and equality.” Although our rulers have revived the word to describe violent enemies of the United States, most of today’s actual terrorists can be found within our own governments, federal, state, municipal. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (known as ATF), the Drug Enforcement Agency, FBI, IRS, etc., are so many Jacobins at war against the lives, freedom, and property of our citizens."
a terrorist is a guerrilla fighter who operates outside of their state boundaries. This applies to the 911 attackers and most of the ISIS groups. It does not apply to hamas. Hamas has a political wing and a militant wing, like the IRA did. Members of hamas are Arab people who have lived in the Palestine area for 1000s of years. Israel occupies the west bank and gaza illegally. Although some countries have in the past used US lobby based wording to describe hamas, none of these countries say israeli occupation of arab areas are legal. so really, its israel that is engaging in terrorist activities. israel is the occupier. israel is illegally engaging in genocide so that white people from US and Europe can illegally obtain cheep real estate paid for by US tax payers, same as any other US special intrests lobby group.
I do not think the terms 'terrorist' and 'terrorism' are useful. They are badly used and blur issues. Hamas is certainly 'militant'. The 2 million people of Gaza feel desperate. With inadequate weapons, a bunch of brave zealots, maddened by decades of frustration, rush out and attack a powerful, ever-encroaching and inexorable enemy that is supported by a giant superpower. What use is that? But what else could they do? Their rockets did nothing. They had only their fists and kitchen knives. Who said Palestine belongs to the Jewish people; God or Balfour? And were they right to do so. Is there no grown-up person in the room to explain how mixed races and mixed religions can live together?
When nearly all networks and major International Corporations are owned by the same Mega International Corporate Investment firms, and those same mega Corps even own each other, they can and do control the narrative. The old saying
"Who Controls The Money Controls The World" Henry Kissinger. This holds in these last days. These skirmishes are but a prelude to God's wrath on America. There are only two sides, good and evil. Calling Hamas terrorists would place them on the evil side, so the powers that be won't allow that; it's contrary to their desired outcome of America's evil and Hamas's good.
I do not read the media because I have never found any of them trustworthy. I get my news from people I trust and writers that eventually earn my trust. I don't like having to guess what the press means based on the words they are, or are not, using. The first time I find out out something I read was not factually true is the last time I read that source.
100% agreed. The legacy press is undoubtedly the problem. So who in the legacy press makes or made the decision to change the narrative? Was it a committee, a group, an individual(s)? No one is raising their hand(s) to take responsibility. Are they getting their orders from someone else like a billionaire influencer, government agency, a political party, the White House, WEF? I see nothing published debating the merits of the argument. So once again it’s The Wizard of Oz diktat.
Fake neutrality gives them the conflict they feed on. If there is right and wrong the battle is over before it starts.
This might sound crazy, but it’s possible the decision makers are 20-something interns who were students at Columbia last year. I suspect there’s a dotted line from “Latinx” to “birthing person” to “Palestinian freedom fighters,” but it’s just a hunch.
I agree. I think it is because of the whole umbrella activism which has sprung up and how many of these groups get their funding (not just the front line funding but the slightly under the radar second tier funding). There is no real reason why people who are for fossil fuel free should be supporting Hamas (and indeed Iran which is v much not fossil fuel free) but they are. https://theecologist.org/2023/nov/07/just-stop-genocide was where I first encountered this and the fact that the XR apparatus had been taken over.
It will have to do with who sits on and lobbies for the changes, plus people in management not having a strong enough backbone to say no particularly when the pressure is coming from activist staff networks.
Agreed!
I stopped my years long subscription to print and on line NY Times after the blood libel toward Israel about the hospital bombed by Islamic jihad. Best money I ever saved.
I am going to offer a counter opinion. Not because I think Hamas are in any way deserving of sympathy or support. In my view, people who can carry out, with such evident relish, the depravity that we witnessed on Oct 7th need to be rendered incapable of ever doing so again. If the only way to achieve that is to exterminate them, then so be it.
I desperately wish there were another route that could be taken because, as with any war, non-combatants are going to get caught in the crossfire. Unfortunately, I don't really see any viable alternative to long-term peace in the region other than excising the cancer that is Hamas. It is sickening to see the carnage wrought both by the initial attack of Hamas and the subsequent response, but I do not draw a moral equivalence.
The problem I have with designating them as a 'terrorist' group is that the word terrorist conjures up an image of a small bunch of fringe nutters prepared to do evil to further their fringe and extremist causes. At least that's the image it conjures up for me.
The problem, however, is that Hamas are not some fringe group of dangerous weirdos; they are, or were, the *government* of Gaza, representing some 2 million people and duly elected back in 2006. The word 'terrorist' usually describes some rogue element operating, but Hamas can hardly be said to be this. The attacks of Oct 7th are best viewed as government *policy* and a declaration of war against Israel.
So, whilst I want to describe Hamas with the utter disgust they warrant, I'm not sure that calling them 'terrorists' as such is the right way to do it. Perhaps describing Gaza as a terroristic state within Israel would suffice?
This is surreal and so disappointing to learn. Thank you for your excellent reporting!!
Camera.org cover the heavy anti-Israel bias of legacy media: https://www.camera.org/
Just when I thought MSM or so-called "Legacy" media was incapable of showing even less objectivity - they've reached a new low in choosing consciously NOT to refer to Hamas as the terrorist group that its actions clearly and unalterably show it to be as recently as October 7. This is beyond shameful - and it does beg the question how this has come to be among so many legacy media outlets.
We're in a time of war, and words are weapons to confuse and control the masses that are the enemy. This is a world war, and Americans are sleepwalking their way through it. CAPTURED is the keyword for these last days. It becomes more apparent with each passing day. The MSM is captured along with a plethora of other organizations, countries, leaders, and major international corporations. The love of money and the power it brings has come to a point of no return.
Fearmongering has been a massive success for the self-proclaimed Global elites and their minions. They no longer see a need for 8 Billion "useless mouths' and are moving along in their extermination of the human race. As Yuval Noah Harari stated, ENTER the robots and Transhumans (an improvement of God's design). He is a top advisor at the WEF World Economic Forum, A Satanic group of world leaders, scientists, "educators," Corporate heads, and even Hollywood elites, as well as Billionaires.
Captured in a world that is upside down, where Good is Bad, and Bad is Good, is another sign from God that it's Judgement time for America. With God, there are no coincidences, and his timeline is perfect. Calendars have been changed and manipulated over time, which creates confusion. However, the religious Hebrew calendar aligns perfectly with the signs God put there so we would know the time and seasons, seasons of times, not weather.
Because that would put their anti-semitism out there in technicolor.
Great point you make, making clear the difference between a terrorist and a militant. These media outlets know this. They have deliberately chosen the incorrect term to please their readerships and keep subscriptions up. The absolute opposite of “neutrality.” I will not give them a pass and I’m so so so sick of this.
If words and their meanings matter, then it is our governments—as well as the corporations serving as the long arm of the state—propagating bloodshed not only in Gaza, but all the world over, all in the name of democracy while in reality little more than money laundering operations (as Julian Assange accurately described), determined to take away the rights of their own citizens one by one, which are the terrorists at work per the original definition of the word.
If the independent or dependent media are to use the word correctly, then they will describe the branches of our states advocating partisan bloodshed and tyranny as terrorists; not the Israeli intelligence created Hamas that was backed for many years by Netanyahu and Likud, much like the US propped up al-Qaeda and ISIS, all of whose more powerful benefactors deserve to be the objects of criticism for what the organisations they create do.
Anything else—including labelling of US enemies or whoever states want to designate as "terrorists"—is meaningless newspeak, and all entirely subjective besides with e.g MI6's IRA never being subject to the same designation in the public conscience or court of opinion. Gore Vidal described the reality of this indisputable historical fact well in his essay "Shredding of the Bill of Rights" recorded in The Last Empire (2001):
"It is nicely apt that the word “terrorist” (according to the OED) should have been coined during the French Revolution to describe “an adherent or supporter of the Jacobins, who advocated and practiced methods of partisan repression and bloodshed in the propagation of the principles of democracy and equality.” Although our rulers have revived the word to describe violent enemies of the United States, most of today’s actual terrorists can be found within our own governments, federal, state, municipal. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (known as ATF), the Drug Enforcement Agency, FBI, IRS, etc., are so many Jacobins at war against the lives, freedom, and property of our citizens."
a terrorist is a guerrilla fighter who operates outside of their state boundaries. This applies to the 911 attackers and most of the ISIS groups. It does not apply to hamas. Hamas has a political wing and a militant wing, like the IRA did. Members of hamas are Arab people who have lived in the Palestine area for 1000s of years. Israel occupies the west bank and gaza illegally. Although some countries have in the past used US lobby based wording to describe hamas, none of these countries say israeli occupation of arab areas are legal. so really, its israel that is engaging in terrorist activities. israel is the occupier. israel is illegally engaging in genocide so that white people from US and Europe can illegally obtain cheep real estate paid for by US tax payers, same as any other US special intrests lobby group.
It’s not what you say, it’s HOW you say it.
I do not think the terms 'terrorist' and 'terrorism' are useful. They are badly used and blur issues. Hamas is certainly 'militant'. The 2 million people of Gaza feel desperate. With inadequate weapons, a bunch of brave zealots, maddened by decades of frustration, rush out and attack a powerful, ever-encroaching and inexorable enemy that is supported by a giant superpower. What use is that? But what else could they do? Their rockets did nothing. They had only their fists and kitchen knives. Who said Palestine belongs to the Jewish people; God or Balfour? And were they right to do so. Is there no grown-up person in the room to explain how mixed races and mixed religions can live together?
Why not call Brandon a Pedo, Pelosi a Crook or government a Mafia? There are many taboos out there.
When nearly all networks and major International Corporations are owned by the same Mega International Corporate Investment firms, and those same mega Corps even own each other, they can and do control the narrative. The old saying
"Who Controls The Money Controls The World" Henry Kissinger. This holds in these last days. These skirmishes are but a prelude to God's wrath on America. There are only two sides, good and evil. Calling Hamas terrorists would place them on the evil side, so the powers that be won't allow that; it's contrary to their desired outcome of America's evil and Hamas's good.
I do not read the media because I have never found any of them trustworthy. I get my news from people I trust and writers that eventually earn my trust. I don't like having to guess what the press means based on the words they are, or are not, using. The first time I find out out something I read was not factually true is the last time I read that source.