Tag: Media
A bad taste in the mouth
For several years now, my media consumption habits have been guided in part by what I call my “escape routes.”
As someone who spends his days immersed in reports and analysis of news events that...
War is hell. Everywhere.
“War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the American Civil War, “is hell.” More than a century and a...
American Christian Media group: Ax usage of term ‘West Bank’
The head of a prominent group of American Christian media broadcasters on Wednesday urged members of the association to cease using the term “West Bank” when reporting about Israel’s biblical heartland.
The announcement by the...
IDF confirms 32 out of 136 remaining hostages dead
At least 32 of the remaining 136 hostages captured by Hamas during its Oct. 7 terrorist onslaught are confirmed to have died, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing a confidential intelligence assessment by the...
Gaza photojournalists accused of Oct. 7 war crimes
Two Gaza-based Palestinian photojournalists who infiltrated Israel during Hamas’s massacres on Oct. 7 committed war crimes, experts say.
“I believe that this is clearly an incidence that would come under and be covered by both...
‘New York Times’ to Jews: Forget thy right hand
Marc Tracy's New York Times article on Jan. 14 refers to "left-wing" Jews and a "left-wing" Jewish publication, and a "far-right" Israeli government and its "extreme-right ministers." The avian metaphors add up to the culture reporter to...
If Israel can’t bring it to social media, bring the social media to Israel
With the realization that the social-media pen is mighty like the sword, the nonprofit organization Yalla Israel focuses on sending social-media influencers to Israel to experience the Jewish state firsthand and, it hopes, to portray Israel...
‘BBC’ in English is in many ways worse about Israel than ‘BBC Arabic’
On Sunday evening, Dec. 10, I gave my third interview for BBC Arabic TV since Oct. 7, a station that has a combined audience of tens of millions in the Middle East and Europe, as well as online.
Two...
The devastating Hamas weapon of war
Hamas, the genocidal jihadi force responsible for the barbaric Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, has a devastating weapon of war. That weapon is the Western media.
With some honorable exceptions, these media outlets have been...
‘LA Times,’ accused of Jew-hatred in past, calls for ceasefire in editorial
Although it stated that "no one should harbor illusions about Hamas," the editorial board of The Los Angeles Times wrote on Nov. 16 that "it has become impossible to distinguish between Israel’s decidedly non-surgical operation against Hamas...