While Palestinian journalists are killed or jailed by Israel, criticism of Israel is voluntarily blocked by U.S. media.
is yet a further effort to stifle Palestinians’ grievances and stop them from irritating U.S. government officials and taking advantage of social media platforms to convey their version of events and controversial Israeli behavior to a wider public.
The plight of Palestinian journalism is not limited to territory under direct Israeli control, but, through this punitive action directed at quieting Arikat’s overseas influence, extends to the United States and to many other countries. Such realities mock Biden’s claims about leading an alliance of democracies against governments headed by autocrats.
What can you say in general about the state of the press and mainstream corporate media? What are the social, economic, political and perhaps, moral implications concerning theRecent encroachments on the rights and even the lives of journalists are part of a broader set of tendencies that have shifted state/society relations sharply to the right in most societies, endangering the future of democracy as an existential reality despite retaining its legitimating rhetoric.
With elections becoming more about raising money than ideas and values, it encourages an attitude of detachment from organized politics involving political parties and elections — what some call ‘procedural democracy’ to distinguish it from social democracy that somewhat levels the playing field when it comes to education, health and opportunities.
The free and independent press, although never living fully up to its claims of fierce independence, had been serving the public by fearless and honest reporting about public and private wrongs as a partial antidote to the behavior of societal actors in and out of government spending huge sums to hide inconvenient truths. Yet even this freedom is increasingly curtailed by expansive security claims of states, reinforced by secrecy, and compromised by the selective dissemination of news.
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