Sana'a April 29. 2024 (Saba) - In light of the increase in Western positions blatantly biased in favor of the Zionist entity, Western media have also taken a biased position in favor of the usurping entity, helping spread misleading information and adopting the Zionist narrative on the aggression against Gaza Strip, which now exceeded 200 days.
Since the seventh of last October, matters and facts have been revealing more and more about the catastrophic conditions in Gaza, its tragic repercussions on the people of the Strip, and its wide-ranging geopolitical repercussions on the region and beyond.
However, Western media do not care about this, and play an abusive role. In addition to distorting the context of the unfolding tragedy, the misleading information published by Western media - rooted in undocumented, contradictory or false narratives - have had real humanitarian repercussions on the ground.
The most widespread Western media outlets in the world adopt a certain, homogeneous framing of the events since October 7th. Still, these media outlets categorically dub 'Aqsa Storm' of 7 October as a "terrorist operation". On the contrary, the genocide committed by the Zionist army against the Palestinians in Gaza Strip - the overwhelming majority of whom are women and children - is portrayed as: a measure that falls within the framework of "self-defense".
Western media choose excessive selectivity in their stories, and guests in these media's interviews - and many of the hosts on channel or radio stations ask Arab guests in their interviews to - condemn Hamas, while the hosts do not ask the other guest to condemn the massacres and genocide committed as part of the Zionist aggression.
In this context, the Zionist description of the crisis is adopted by Western media as a "war", creating a false equality between the party whom country is occupied and the occupier, especially with the incredibly glaring imbalance between Hamas and the Zionist entity in terms of resources and military capabilities.
Persistence in such biased framing shapes the public narrative about the crisis as a terrorist attack that provoked a legitimate response, thus granting legitimacy to the asymmetric Zionist aggression against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
Western media are biased in their presentation, with comprehensive selectivity, in favor of the Zionist entity when presenting any topic or issue.
Western media constantly neglect to put the operation launched by Hamas on the 7th of October in an adequate context. When they describe it as an "unprovoked attack", Western media overlook 75 years of the Zionist occupation of Palestine, and 56 years of military occupation and the suffering of the Palestinians under Zionist rule.
This means that Western public opinion, most of which has limited knowledge of this historical background, lacks the context needed to understand the current situation.
Recent events - such as raids, arrests and atrocities against Palestinians in the West Bank and provocations carried out by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque - are ignored in Western media reports on Gaza and Hamas.
It is unfortunate that this recurring pattern of framing and classification is common in various Western media outlets, from the centrist CNN to the right-wing Fox News.
This process of de-contextualization, coupled with skewed and one-sided coverage patterns, has led some Western journalists to object the way their media handle this crisis.
A number of British, Canadian and American journalists have written open letters demanding the injustice be reversed, protested or even resigned from their jobs to express their dissatisfaction with the coverage.
In the same context, about 1,500 journalists working for dozens of American news organizations signed an open letter to protest Western media coverage and their handling of the atrocities and massacres committed by the Zionist entity against the Palestinians since October 7.
In their letter, the journalists condemned the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza, criticized the bias of Western media, and wrote that newsrooms "bear the burden of the dehumanizing rhetoric that justified the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the burden of undermining Palestinian, Arab and Islamic opinions and viewpoints, and the burden of exporting inflammatory language that perpetuated anti-Islamism and racist metaphors.
Australian journalists also organized an open forum in which they urged Australian newsrooms to take eight steps to improve their media coverage, including: "Stay with the truth rather than false neutrality." They also called on them to exercise at least the same amount of professional skepticism they apply to Hamas sources, instead of by giving preference and trust to the sources of the occupier's government and army without verifying them, which allows their narrative to dominate the coverage.
Regarding social networking sites, social media platforms represented important windows for alternative coverage and allowed the whole world to witness the daily suffering of the Palestinian people, which was not possible through traditional Western media.
This helped spark intense anger, including massive protests in support of the Palestinians around the world.
However, it also contributed to the dissemination of many baseless allegations and undocumented lies adopted by the traditional Western media.
Western media bias occurs in adopting the Zionist narrative and adopting the claims of the Zionist officials. Gaza and its people, along with the systematic destruction they are subjected to, are depicted merely as "Israeli self-defense".
Here a question should be raised: Why do the media in the West turn a blind eye to the crimes of the Zionist entity in Gaza and other cities of Palestine? Why do they portray the murdered person as a murderer, and the murderer as a murdered person? What are the reasons for double standards among well-established media and journalistic institutions that have always talked about independence, impartiality and professional ethics!!?
Z.M
resource : Saba
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