Israeli TV News Sanitizes the Bombing of Gaza. Plus, a Plagiarism Fight Gets Political

On the Media

WNYC Studios

Studios, Radio, Newspapers, Advertising, News, Wnyc, Magazine, Media, Journalism, Tv, Newspaper, Brooke_gladstone, Technology, Micah_loewinger, Npr, History, Politics, Transparency, Amendment, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What Israeli media doesn't show its viewers; the politicization of plagiarism; how the politics of memory obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	They do see the destruction, but they don't see the human cost.
0:04.0	The result is that Israel is very much still on October 7th.
0:10.0	For the last three months, Israelis have seen on TV a version of the
0:14.3	bombardment of Gaza without the victims.
0:17.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:20.3	I'm Brooke Kladstone.
0:21.5	And I'm Michael Loeinger.
0:22.9	As the war drags on, the debates swirling around it
0:26.3	morphed into fights about all kinds of things,
0:29.0	including plagiarism?
0:30.6	Bill Ackman said, this plagiarism, this is like Oppenheimer inventing the atomic bomb
0:34.8	this is gonna change the world forever and it's just like what you know just because your wife was accused of plagiarism
0:40.1	Plus the tug of war over the memory of the Holocaust and who gets to decide what's okay to say.
0:47.0	The only way to make good on the promise of Never Again is to constantly be checking whether we are actually falling into darkness.
0:56.6	It's all coming up after this.
0:58.6	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media,
1:03.2	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:04.5	And I'm Michael Lohanger.
1:06.0	As of earlier this week, Israel's bombardment of Gaza
1:09.3	has entered its fourth month.
1:11.2	Israel is still pounding Gaza. The UN now deeming it quote,
1:15.2	uninhabitable.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.