The media are merely conglomerates that sell column
inches and air time. Others are state-funded bureaucracies with fixed
ideological agendas.
Journalists exhibit
almost conceit when they insist that they have some natural right to stroll
onto any battlefield. In truth, there are many places and proceedings to which
journalists are denied access: cabinet meetings, intelligence briefings, jury deliberations,
corporate boardrooms, trade negotiations, Papal conclaves, nuclear command
bunkers, sports team strategy sessions, and Hollywood movie sets. The list is
endless.
No serious person
imagines democracy has collapsed because reporters cannot barge into NATO’s war
rooms. However, when it comes to Israel, the rules are magically rewritten. The
expectation is that the Jewish state must fling wide its gates and allow hostile
scribblers to tramp about a war zone as though it were an open-air museum.
Consider, too, the
international press’ record. Since day one of the war, they have parroted Hamas
falsehoods, recycled invented casualty figures, and published photographs that
even a child could see are staged or fake. They have splashed headlines
across the globe that would disgrace a provincial gossip paper.
Coverage of the
Israel-Hamas war has been the most contemptible display of reporting ever.
When the press has
consistently demonstrated hostility to Israel and indifference to truth, why
would Jerusalem confer privileges upon it? The news media has shown itself to
be neither neutral nor trustworthy. It has not yet grasped the contempt with
which they are now held.
Why should a
country at war with a genocidal enemy invite in hostile agitators who will lie
about its every move?
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