“Fairness and balance” in reporting genocide?
I am shocked by Andrew Podger’s invocation of the slogan “Fair and Balanced” – formerly used by Fox News, to criticise Pearls and Irritations’ coverage of Israel’s disproportionate response to Hamas’ crimes of October 7th, 2023.
No surprise of course, that the Press Council, on whose board Mr Podger has sat, and whose standards he recommends, is funded by News Corporation.
Israel itself has ensured that reporting from the Middle East is neither fair nor balanced by killing more journalists reporting from Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon since October 7 2023, than have been killed since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting statistics in 1992. It has also forced the closure of Al Jazeera’s Israel office. Readers of P & I are not media novices – we have our own experience and expertise in gathering and evaluating news from a wide variety of sources, including the reports of the UN Special Rapporteurs Francesca Albanese and Chris Sidoti, the rulings of the International Court of Justice, and the resolutions of the UN General Assembly, all of which the Australian government and the Australian mainstream media, with some honourable exceptions, have shamefully ignored until recently. Thankyou John Menadue, for P&I.
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