#1591 Broken News: Understanding traditional media and social media reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 11/6/2023
Media literacy is a basic requirement for understanding the war in Gaza, as propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation are being distributed for both ideological and financial reasons.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Breaking News Consumer's Handbook Israel-Gaza Edition - On the Media - Air Date 10-27-23
Discussing how to navigate your social media feed in the midst of the war in Gaza.
Ch. 2: Hearts, minds, and likes - Today, Explained - Air Date 10-23-23
False information about what is happening in Israel and Gaza is taking over SM faster than journalists like BBC Verify’s Shayan Sardarizadeh can check it.
Ch. 3: US Media, Washington Rush Head First into 9-11 2.0 - Citations Needed - Air Date 10-11-23
In this public News Brief, we discuss the recent escalation in violence in "the Middle East" and the quickly forming bipartisan consensus to jam the issue into a simplistic, dehumanizing War on Terror narrative
Ch. 4: Fog of War The Media and the Israel–Palestine Conflict - Deconstructed - Air Date 10-13-23
Ryan Grim is joined by Intercept reporter Alice Speri, who has frequently reported from occupied Palestinian territory, and Palestinian American writer and political analyst Yousef Munayyer.
Ch. 5: Hate Crimes, American Media & the 'Free Palestine' Movement - NowThisNews - Air Date 11-1-23
As attacks on Gaza continue, so do violent acts in the U.S., and this researcher is breaking down our media's narratives.
Sherif Mansour of the Committee to Protect Journalists says it is one of the highest death tolls for journalists covering the conflict since 1992 and calls today it the "deadliest time for journalists in Gaza."
Ch. 7: Breaking News Consumer's Handbook Israel-Gaza Edition Part 2 - On the Media - Air Date 10-27-23
The media lens—the points of view that they show us day after day, those they obscure or ridicule—affects the way we understand the world, our neighbors, and what’s politically possible. Guest Maya Schenwar, author and editor at large of Truthout.
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Ch. 9: Gaza Siege and the Liberal Handwringing Industrial Complex - Citations Needed - Air Date 10-18-23
We break down the latest efforts by Democrats to support Israel's brutal bombing and collective punishment of Gaza while still looking "deeply concerned" about the logical outcomes of this bombing and collective punishment.
We bring you the voices of Jewish Voice for Peace and their allies who shut down the main terminal of Grand Central Station during rush hour Friday in one of New York's largest acts of civil disobedience in 20 years to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 11: The influence of calling Congress - Craig from Ohio
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on a case study in war media manipulation
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: Composite image of an illustrated hand holding a phone with "LIVE" and "BREAKING" on the screen, along with the much-maligned initial NY Times headline "Israel Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say". A finger is pressing an invisible button at the bottom of the screen. Many "share" arrows point out away from the phone.
Credit: Composite design by A. Hoffman. News image credit: "Gaza" by Marcin Monko, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0 DEED | Changes: Cropped
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| 0:00.0 | During today's episode I'm going to be telling you about a show I think you should check out |
| 0:06.5 | it's the left reckoning podcast so take a moment to hear what I have to say about them in the middle of the show |
| 0:12.1 | and listen wherever you get your |
| 0:13.8 | podcasts. And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left |
| 0:18.4 | podcast in which we shall take a look at why media literacy is a basic requirement for understanding the war in Gaza as propaganda, |
| 0:27.0 | misinformation, and disinformation is being distributed for both ideological and financial reasons. Sources today include on the media, today explained, citations |
| 0:38.4 | needed, deconstructed, now this news, democracy now, and CounterSpen with additional members only clips from |
| 0:46.8 | citations needed and Gaza Edition. |
| 1:00.3 | We begin with number one, the hearty perennial of breaking news advice, |
| 1:04.6 | when perusing headlines about a war |
| 1:07.0 | don't swallow without chewing. |
| 1:09.2 | The early versions of our coverage, the headline and the news alert, ended up attributing |
| 1:15.8 | our description of what happened at the hospital to a Hamas government official |
| 1:21.7 | and the information that that government official passed along turned out to be |
| 1:27.4 | inaccurate. That's New York Times Executive Editor Joe Khan representing one of many |
| 1:32.3 | major news outlets who failed to |
| 1:34.5 | contextualize an unreliable source offering comment within minutes of an |
| 1:39.4 | explosion at Gaza's Alachley Hospital. That early version with the benefit of hindsight was not as good or as accurate or verified |
| 1:47.2 | as it could have been. |
| 1:48.2 | Conflicting video evidence is still being parsed, and the prime evidence, fragments of the munitions responsible cannot be examined |
| 1:55.9 | because says a senior Hamas official the missile has dissolved like salt in the water |
| 2:01.5 | something that bomb and shell fragments definitely are not known to do. |
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