The Legacy Media Are Immune to Facts

There are some things so stupid that only a legacy media journalist or a deranged leftist (or, most often, both at once) could believe it. That socialism will work next time, for instance, or that taxing Australia into grinding energy poverty will ‘save the planet’. But there is one self-evidently lunatic belief that the left share with too many on the fringe right: ‘Jewish’ world control.

The same neo-Nazi goons who gloat that Jews have been forced out of so many countries over the millennia are also firmly convinced that ‘da Joos’ run the world and forbid criticism of Jews. Well, if they are, they’re doing a pretty shit job of it. There hasn’t been a week gone by in the past two years that thousands of anti-Semitic troglodytes haven’t been bellowing their hate for Jews.

Their ideological fellow goose-steppers in the legacy media have likewise been shrieking unhinged hate of the Jewish state. Yet, at the same time, they insist, like the neo-Nazis, that ‘da Joos control the media’.

Are these people completely bonkers? Well, yes. Like this nutcase:

The implication by cancelled National Press Club speaker Chris Hedges that the mainstream media globally has been delivering a slanted pro-Israel narrative about Gaza since the October 7 attacks is so crazy it could only be the view of a self-described anarchist and socialist who is also an ordained Presbyterian minister and former Gaza correspondent for the New York Times.

Imagine this lunatic arguing furiously with his apparently multiple personalities at the breakfast table.

As for the legacy media, they’re so far gone that they literally argue to abandon objective journalism, as per Australia Institute chief political analyst Amy Remeikis.

For Hedges, Remeikis and a whole school of journalist activists, facts are subordinate to judgments they have made about right and wrong. No surprise Hedges’ favourite Australian reporters are John Pilger and Julian Assange.

Hedges is even upfront that he doesn’t believe Hamas membership undermines the work of Palestinian journalists in Gaza.

‘Palestinian journalist’ is an oxymoron. What you’re describing are nothing more than Hamas propagandists, as even they admit. ‘Reporting’ from Gaza that even mildly criticises Hamas is a death-warrant.

Hedges would have no such worries.

The problem with his Said lecture, the speech to the teachers union and his ABC interview is Hedges’ total failure to condemn Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, murder of 1200 civilians and capture of 251 hostages. All Hedges could tell Marr was that he has no time for Hamas.

Hedges’ Said lecture claims October 7 was simply an act of resistance, ignoring the fact Hamas had been single-handedly running the strip since 2006, with only occasional Israeli retaliations for regular Hamas rocket attacks on nearby Israeli civilian communities.

This nutter, though, is so immune to facts that he blames Israel for being repeatedly attacked by genocidal Arabs.

Hedges’ Said lecture attributes all blame to Israel for the wars it has fought since 1948, even though its neighbours usually invaded it. He does not concede Israel was founded as a Jewish state under UN Resolution 181 or that it was attacked by neighbouring countries after it proclaimed independence.

But that doesn’t fit the narrative, which is that the Jewish state is always in the wrong. (But they’re not anti-Semites! Nein!)

Associated Press Jerusalem bureau chief Matti Friedman […] says modern reporters, rather than write what is actually happening, are more interested in knowing how a story serves a particular side.

“So when you look at a story you don’t ask, ‘Is it true or is it not true?’, you ask, ‘Who’s it going to help?’

To get an idea of just how obsessively skewed the legacy media are against the Jewish state, consider that even in 2011, Friedman’s AP Jerusalem bureau had 40 staff. But, in Syria where a civil war was killing tens of thousands by the week, there was just one. One. AP had more staff in Israel, long before October 7, than in Russia, China, or India.

So, when the Israel-hating media plead that it’s not anti-Semitic to criticise Israel, ask why the obsessive focus on just one place, which happens to be the Jewish state.

As for ‘reporting’ from Gaza, all are ‘Palestinians’ – meaning that they’re overwhelmingly likely to be anti-Semitic (‘Palestinans’, according to Pew research, nearly all hold anti-Semitic views). The only differences are whether they’re just fellow-travellers with Hamas, or Hamas members.

“Some of them identify with Hamas. Some of them are intimidated by Hamas and won’t cross Hamas. And the third category is people who actually belong to Hamas. That’s where the information from Gaza is coming from.”

And the legacy media swallow it like ice-cream. Because, let’s not beat around the bush, they just hate Jews – and they’re giddy with excitement at being allowed to give their hate free rein at last.