“Brzezinski”-or any baseball name you can think of: names the all-white (at this hour) MJ crew feels the need to pronounce correctly; “Mamdani” —a name the MJ white people club finds too exotic & discards in favor of “Zohran”. Another small sign of a big bias
Jim Vandehai needs to can the “this isn’t who we are” b.s. - “We” elected Trump twice & cheered the denigration of all presume to have benefited from DEI by everyone in Trumpland. This IS who we are.
Noted Mid East expert Willie Geist once again has a bigger voice on the cease fire than folks like Diana Bhutto, who today in the New York Times says what no MJ-er can say or understands the importance of being able to say: “I have a lot of friends in Gaza.” See www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
Again no Palestinians or anyone remotely sympathetic to them. It is the re-Van-Jones-ification of news analysis. (Van’s main sin was to say the quiet part of USA editorial policy out loud). This is what made 2 years of relentless bombardment possible in the first place
Friedman’s analysis is in a tradition best explained here: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202... On Al Jazeera—but not in Friedman’s column—it is pointed out that the Trump agreement prioritizes Israeli security gurarantees—but at the expense of long-term Palestinian security guarantees
While the MJ no Palestinian policy continued for reasons best explained here www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202..., at least Kim Ghattas was brought on & given a chance objectively assess the current moment. Then Tom Friedman was brought on for a return to pablum.
The Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha writes in one poem, “don’t think of us as numbers.” But in mainstream media, Palestinians are lucky if they are referred to as numbers like “60,000.” People like Oren who dismiss the numbers are allowed to appear by name & push their books.
Oren recently condemned the New York Times reporting on the shooting of children in Gaza as antisemitic — in Bari Weiss’ —CBS’s new bods— publication (www.thefp.com/p/michael-or...) Yet he was never asked about this on MJ. The cover up has begun.
This is the beginning of the coverup of the genocide and the whitewashing of people like Oren who cheered it on. My guess is that in the near future Bibi and Itamar Ben Givir will be on MJ yukking it up talking about the Yankees
On this day of all days, Mj reverts to its no Palestinians policy. There are many eloquent Palestinians in the USA. For instance: www.facebook.com/fareedzakari... Two years of genocide have been enabled by mainstream media inviting Michael Oren & David Ignatius types, but never a Diana Butto.
On this day of all days, Mj reverts to its no Palestinians policy. There are many eloquent Palestinians in the USA. For instance x.com/FareedZakari... Two years of genocide have been enabled by mainstream media inviting Michael Oren & David Ignatius types, but never Diana Butto
In America, this does not matter. Here, if you watch & read mainstream media, you see that the coverup of 2 years of war crimes has begun.There‘s a TOTAL ABSENCE of Palestinian voices: to work in mainstream media here, you must view Palestinians as not really human.
Would you be happier if Chapelle went and performed for Netanyahu or for Trump , who blows fishermen up in the Caribbean? Saudi Arabia is an awful repressive regime that is trying to slowly open up & that to some extent is sticking up for Palestinians. The USA is going in the opposite direction
For objective reporting on the Gaza deal, the only place to go is Al Jazeera. Joe admits to being instinctively pro Israel, & that is the default position of U.S. mainstream media. In other words, the media is instinctively committed to viewing Palestinians as less worthy of rights than Israelis
MJ cannot be expected to remember that Hamas was adhering to the terms of the last cease fire deal—until Israel violated it and started its starvation campaign. Hamas is an evil group, but no worse in its deeds than the Netanyahu government.
Contrary to Donny Deutsch, Mamdani never used the term ‘globalize the intifada’—& in any case doesn’t define it the way Deutsch does. Plus, the phrase is a slogan. The ethnic cleansers Smotrich & Ben Gvir are driving Israeli policy. But nobody supporting Israel is ever asked to condemn them.
