By Serving as Stenographers to Power, Corporate Media Abetted Israel's Genocide

News coverage competes for attention and influences what people consider real and just. Major US outlets narrate war by adding meaning, evaluation, interpretations, and judgment while omitting much of the violence’s truth. Interpretations and judgments are delivered through storytelling methods, including where a story begins, camera perspective, and whose experiences are centered or excluded. Decisions about relevance, cited sources, and omitted information guide audiences toward particular conclusions. Palestinian voices have often been interrupted, silenced, or used as airtime, limiting their ability to perform basic journalistic tasks. Interviews with starving Palestinians in Gaza have continued to reflect these patterns, including focus on limited details despite accounts of extreme conditions.

"This would still be the case by May 2025, when 's Steve Inskeep interviewed a starving Palestinian writer, who with his wife and four children, was living in a tent on the rubble of his home in northern Gaza. After he explained there was no water and talked about the mea"

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