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US Media’s Complicity In The Gaza Genocide / Robin Andersen

Jun 9
Episode 1911
I think that the events of a genocide, when you're actually seeing it from on the ground and not only just the Palestinian journalists, but our independent and malternative media in this country did a fantastic job poking through and debunking the Israeli talking points, correcting the record, exposing the media's constructed stories. So those kinds of things contributed to this public opinion. But before October 7th, do you think-- 10,000 people were killed in the ‘Israeli-Palestinian conflict’ in the first quarter from 2021 to 2022. 2021 to 2022, 10,000 people were killed. Nine out of 10 of those people were Palestinians, not Israelis. That right there… Just the numbers speak to the way in which this is well documented before October 7th. That Israel had been committing war crimes such that human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch had identified numerous times which they said should be investigated and brought before the ICC for war crimes and that was the Great March of Return in 2018, when peaceful demonstrators were at the wall, Israeli snipers shot down at them and injured 33,000 people.

Robin Anderson joins This Is Hell! to talk about her her new book “The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage Of Israel’s Genocide In Gaza” published by OR Books.

Robin Andersen is professor emerita of media studies at Fordham University and an award-winning author of a dozen single- and co-authored books. Her work examines film, television, and media coverage of war, the environment, politics, and elections. She edits the Routledge Focus Book Series on Media and Humanitarian Action, serves as a Project Censored Judge, and contributes to the annual State of the Free Press. Andersen is on the Board of Directors of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), where she also writes regularly, and is an Izzy Award Judge for the Park Center for Independent Media. Her writing has appeared in CounterPunch, LA Progressive, The Progressive, Salon, Common Dreams, and ScheerPost, among others.

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Robin Andersen is professor emerita of media studies at Fordham University and an award-winning author of a dozen single- and co-authored books. Her work examines film, television, and media coverage of war, the environment, politics, and elections. She edits the Routledge Focus Book Series on Media and Humanitarian Action, serves as a Project Censored Judge, and contributes to the annual State of the Free Press. Andersen is on the Board of Directors of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), where she also writes regularly, and is an Izzy Award Judge for the Park Center for Independent Media. Her writing has appeared in CounterPunch, LA Progressive, The Progressive, Salon, Common Dreams, and ScheerPost, among others.