Letter

In response to The betrayal of Palestinian journalists

Products of the system

The system of education and social conditioning set up by the US, in particular, since early last century and re-enforced throughout the last century has worked superbly well. It has ensured that those who do not give their assent to that conditioning are marginalised from polite society and only accidentally and temporarily occupy positions within the agencies of opinion formulation within our societies.

As George Orwell pointed out, those who make it to positions of prominence within the mainstream media actually believe the nonsense they are peddling and are where they are as they can be trusted not to go outside the accepted range of opinions.

In this case, the accepted opinions, generated by the propaganda mills of Mossad and the Israeli Government, are that all Palestinian journalists are members of Hamas and are therefore legitimate targets. That this is untrue is besides the point. Mainstream journalists recognise that it is career death if they go outside those accepted lies and so they convince themselves of those lies in order to assuage any feelings of guilt they may harbour. They, thus, keep their jobs but lose their humanity!

Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041