[Freefromwar] Fwd: US Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet 'All Materials' From Embedded Reporters in Gaza

[DYANE BROWN]

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Subject: Fwd: US Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet 'All Materials' From Embedded Reporters in Gaza 





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Date: November 7, 2023 at 2:33:55 PM PST 
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[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/media-gaza | https://www.commondreams.org/news/media-gaza ] 

Common Dreams Nov 06, 2023 


CNN's Jeremy Diamond points toward Israeli military hardware in a field near Israel's 
border with Gaza. (Photo: CNN screen grab) 

US Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet 'All Materials' From Embedded Reporters in Gaza 

"Israel is killing the journalists that expose their crimes, then bribing the journalists that cover for them," said one critic. 

BRETT WILKINS 


U.S. corporate media outlets have granted Israeli military commanders pre-publication review rights for "all materials and footage" recorded by their correspondents embedded with the Israel Defense Forces during the invasion of Gaza, a precondition condemned by press freedom advocates. 


"Journalists embedded with the IDF in Gaza operate under the observation of Israeli commanders in the field, and are not permitted to move unaccompanied within the Gaza Strip," Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN 's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," [ https://twitter.com/ArifCRafiq/status/1721258414448222677 | explained ] in a segment on Sunday. 

"As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF escort, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication," he added. " CNN has agreed to these terms in order to provide a limited window into Israel's operations in Gaza." 

In a clip featuring correspondent Raf Sanchez—who is embedded with an IDF unit tasked with finding and destroying Hamas tunnels in Gaza— NBC News also [ https://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news-follows-israeli-military-unit-destroying-hamas-tunnels-in-gaza-197198917931 | acknowledged ] that it has "agreed to share raw footage" as "an operational security requirement." 

Responding to Zakaria's admission, U.S. journalist Dan Cohen [ https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1721312082883129443 | asserted ] that " CNN is explicitly acting as a propaganda mouthpiece for the genocidal Zionist regime." 


U.S. photojournalist Zach D. Roberts [ https://twitter.com/zdroberts/status/1721296288413544506 | said ] on social media that "what CNN is doing here is creating ad b-roll for the IDF. It's nothing resembling news and the CNN employees that participated in it aren't anything resembling journalists." 

Omar Suleiman, founder and president of the Texas-based Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, [ https://twitter.com/omarsuleiman504/status/1721312975657853248 | said ] Sunday on social media that "Israel is killing the journalists that expose their crimes, then bribing the journalists that cover for them." 


Israel [ https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israel-and-palestine-ifj-calls-unesco-protect-journalists | does not allow  ] foreign journalists into Gaza unless they're embedded with IDF units under the aforementioned preconditions, placing almost all of the responsibility—and danger—of reporting on Palestinian correspondents. 


As Common Dreams [ https://www.commondreams.org/news/journalists-killed-in-gaza | reported ] Friday, at least 31 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since Israel began bombarding the densely populated strip in response to the October 7 Hamas-led attacks that left more than 1,400 Israelis and others dead in southern Israel, with another 240 or so people taken hostage. 


One Lebanese journalist was also killed in Gaza, while four Israeli media professionals were slain during the Hamas attacks. 


[ https://cpj.org/2023/11/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/ | According to ] the Committee to Protect Journalists, the past month has been the deadliest four-week period for media professionals since the U.S.-based group started keeping records in 1992. CPJ has also [ https://cpj.org/2023/11/attacks-arrests-threats-censorship-the-high-risks-of-reporting-the-israel-hamas-war/ | documented ] at least eight injuries, three missing people, eight arrests, and "multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members." 

Suleiman said that the world can "expect more coverage humanizing IDF soldiers while they murder thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians in cold blood." 


The Palestinian Ministry of Health [ https://www.commondreams.org/news/aid-leaders-cease-fire | said ] Monday that Israeli forces have killed at least 10,022 people in Gaza, including 2,550 women and more than 4,100 children, while wounding over 25,000 others. 


During the eight-year U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, embedded journalists were used by American officials in an attempt to control the war's public narrative. Research has [ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ctx.2008.7.2.32 | shown ] that embedding "channeled reporters toward producing war coverage from the soldier's point of view," while minimizing civilian casualties and other negative consequences. 


U.S. and other Western mainstream media have long been accused of one-sided coverage in favor of Israel. During the current war, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and other media monitors have [ https://fair.org/home/unconfirmed-beheaded-babies-report-helped-justify-israeli-slaughter/ | noted ] how numerous outlets have broadcast unverified Israeli and U.S. claims of babies beheaded by Hamas, of Gaza-based militants [ https://twitter.com/DanielCohenTV/status/1717992932123271172 | operating ] from beneath hospitals, of Hamas [ https://www.foxnews.com/video/6339680350112 | using human shields ] , and other unsubstantiated reports. 


Lara Witt and Tina Vásquez of Prism Reports recently [ https://prismreports.org/2023/10/26/us-media-genocide-in-gaza/ | wrote ] that the U.S. media "is evading its responsibility to acknowledge the Gaza genocide." 

"The American media is failing," they wrote. "Through journalistic sleight of hand—including the use of passive language, ever-shifting headlines, bothsidesism, and the myth of objectivity—reporters across the U.S. are fueling the genocide their newsrooms are refusing to acknowledge is taking place," Witt and Vásquez added. 

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Ellen Woodsworth 
Co President WILPF Canada 
Speaker and intersectional consultant on cities 
Matriarch Women Transforming Cities International Society 
Former Vancouver City Councilor 

I live on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations 



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