Everybody knows, BBC/CNN edition

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Power Line

Scott Johnson

Feb. 21 2018

In the spirit of the frankly cynical verses of Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” (e.g., the one beginning “Everybody knows that you love me baby”), Professor Richard Landes calls his study of BBC and CNN International media coverage of the Middle East “Everyone Agrees: The BBC and CNN on UNSC Resolution #2334 and Kerry’s Speech.” It is a study of how the BBC and CNN covered (extensively) the passage of UNSC Resolution #2334 and Secretary of State John Kerry’s subsequent speech (December 23-28, 2016). It criticizes the journalists for “pack journalism that inverts reality in the name of a two-state solution even as it empowers those that make that two-state solution impossible.”

 

 

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Scott Johnson in Arab Israel conflict, Media, Obama Foreign Policy

Everybody knows, BBC/CNN edition

In the spirit of the frankly cynical verses of Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” (e.g., the one beginning “Everybody knows that you love me baby”), Professor Richard Landes calls his study of BBC and CNN International media coverage of the Middle East “Everyone Agrees: The BBC and CNN on UNSC Resolution #2334 and Kerry’s Speech.” It is a study of how the BBC and CNN covered (extensively) the passage of UNSC Resolution #2334 and Secretary of State John Kerry’s subsequent speech (December 23-28, 2016). It criticizes the journalists for “pack journalism that inverts reality in the name of a two-state solution even as it empowers those that make that two-state solution impossible.”

 

Professor Landes has written a a companion post at The Augean Stables. In the post he links to sources and evidence with this introduction:

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I have, over the past year, slowly put together a video using my archive of recordings of BBC Global and CNN International’s news broadcasts. It portrays a mindset among journalism that has them “in the name of the ‘whole world’,” misinforming the whole world by reciting Palestinian war propaganda as news. “Everybody knows it’s Israel’s fault” that there’s no peace settlement.

Among other violations of journalistic principles of presenting the relevant evidence, I indict the MSTVNM (mainstream TV news media) for not letting their audiences know what Palestinian leaders – both PA and Hamas – say in Arabic, thus compounding the misdirection involved in highlighting and affirming what Palestinian spokespeople say in English. I therefore include footage generously provided by both Palestinian Media Watch and the Center for Near East Policy Research.

 

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