In Australia, the mainstream media’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has persistently been criticised for prioritising Israeli narratives, lacking historical context and using terms that obscure the scale of Palestinan civilian casualties.

Unsurprisingly, much of the mainstream media’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran has also been afflicted by a range of shortcomings. These include:
– a failure to hold the government to account
– using Orwellian euphemisms to hide ugly truths
– distorting the facts, and
– ignoring the historic record.  Continue reading Shortcomings of mainstream media’s coverage of the illegal war on Iran →