Fatinah Judeh

How does a Palestinian-American with family in the region reconcile the disconnect between “reality” and the “story” our press is “telling”? Consider a day in the life in Gaza. Palestinian schools, hospitals, universities, places of worship, and heritage sites are being systematically destroyed. Civilians, nearly half children, are being murdered on a mass scale  (Over 30,000 dead, nearly half children). The calculated deprivation of food and water is literally starving families to death.

America’s corporate media serves as a key cog in the machinery of genocide. Rather than providing the kind of objective, fact-based reporting integral to an informed citizenry, our mainstream press bombards us with explicit and implicit biases, false narratives, dehumanization, and misdirection, serving to stifle public dissent and justify, rationalize, and conceal the systematic oppression and extermination of the people of Gaza.