Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Nothing illustrates the malfeasance of the mass media like the vast disparity between how they’re covering the killing of four 19 year-old IDF soldiers by Hezbollah versus their complete lack of interest in a 19 year-old hospital patient who was burned alive by the IDF in Gaza. A shockingly horrible headline appeared in Sky News on Monday reading, ‘Israel names teenage soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack — as ‘23 die’ in Gaza school strike.’ It opens with the even more horrid paragraph ‘Israel has named the four teenage victims of a Hezbollah drone strike on a military base — as at least 23 people were reportedly killed in an attack on a central Gaza school.’ Notice the scare quotes and passive language in Sky’s use of ’23 die,’ and the way these active duty combatants are being framed as innocent little children who were the ‘victims’ of an unprovoked attack which ‘killed’ them.” (10/15/24)