Despite two wars involving more than 200,000 U.S. troops and a global economic crisis, foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks fell to a record low during 2008, according to the latest annual review of network news coverage by the authoritative Tyndall Report.This psyop has deadly consequences. As Chris Hedges points out with regard to the (non)reporting of Israel's massacre in Gaza:
It was Israel, not Hamas, which violated the truce established last June. This was never made clear in any of the press reports.However, public opinion regarding that lawless frontier outpost on the Eastern Med is changing very fast, much faster than the media and its corporate sponsors are able to adjust to. This is evident in the skyrocketing viewership of Al-Jazeera English during the most recent Israeli atrocity.
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But by giving credibility to the lies and false narratives Israel uses to justify wholesale slaughter we empower not only Israel’s willful self-destruction but our own. The press, as happened during the buildup to the Iraq war, was again feckless and gutless. It bent to the will of the powerful. It abandoned its sacred contract with its readers, listeners and viewers to always tell the truth. It chattered about nothing. It obscured the facts. It did this while hundreds of women and children were torn to shreds by iron fragmentation bombs in a flagrant violation of international law. And as it failed it lauded itself for doing “a fair, balanced and complete job.
Interestingly CBS "60 Minutes" is the first network to respond to the shift in attitudes by filing this incredibly hard hitting report from the Occupied West Bank. Given the realities that Robert Anderson reports in this video, it is obvious that the two-state solution is officially dead, victim of a disingenuous Oslo "peace process" that was all an elaborate cover and stalling tactic so that Israel could consolidate its control over the West Bank.
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