By Serving as Stenographers to Power, Corporate Media Abetted Israel’s Genocide

In so many ways, big media failed to provide accurate information about Israel’s bombing attacks and their consequences on the people in Gaza. They improvised a language of confusion, denial, and justification. In this book, we find a combination of media tropes and frames, together with verbal inventions for downplaying Israel’s increasingly brutal genocidal violence, along with the hollow echoes that explained away every military act of violence, as the media served as “stenographers to power.” These strategies facilitated the continuation of a genocide. The failure to accurately cover the destruction of Gaza was inimical to the basic professional canons of journalism.