Corporate media should relinquish role of court stenographers in war coverage: Quebec reader

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Re: “Rafah massacre lays bare domestic media shortcomings,” . Napoleon’s dictum that “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets,” and conversely, the importance of a “friendly” media remain well-learned truisms. When Sheldon Adelson’s gambling empire was threatened with a lawsuit, he bought the largest newspaper in Las Vegas to ensure media coverage.

When Izzy Asper found Canada’s media insufficiently pro-Israel, he bought Conrad Black’s Southam empire, and turned it into a Likud mouthpiece—unchanged under Postmedia and its flagship National Post. Whether on wars in Vietnam, Iraq, or Gaza, the corporate media effectively plays the role of court stenographers.

 

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