Letter
Mainstream media presents narrow, biased news
It reflects badly on what remains of Australia’s mainstream media that more concern is shown for journalists in alternative media such as P&I.
In the days of Peter Greste’s imprisonment in Egypt, the MSM gave his plight regular coverage. There’s nothing comparable about foreign journalists barred from Palestine nor the record number of native journalists deliberately killed by the IDF. Instead, our news comes with zero credibility from Israel, and the US whose complicity cannot be denied, nor its reports believed.
Several thoughts come to mind:
– Thankfulness for Australia’s alternative media and remaining Palestinian journalists and visiting health and other aid workers who keep us informed.
– Anger at our government’s lack of action – words are not enough.
– Anger that we’re still tied to the failing US that will take years to recover from the damage caused by Trump and his sycophants at all levels of government and society, including enabling genocide.
And I think, how true the title of Omar El Akkad’s book, One day, everyone will have always been against this is. He holds a mirror to the West that sometimes makes even supporters of Palestine cringe in shame. Read its 187 pages!
— Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122