Felling the corporate media beast

 

Toward a new media landscape

In 2020, CBC Radio One host Duncan McCue publicly apologized for referring to Palestine as “Palestine” while interviewing Joe Sacco about his book Paying the Land. Later, CBC retroactively erased any mention of Palestine from that interview, with executive producer Raj Ahluwalia stating “There was no pressure from anyone [to do so].”

Since the beginning of the escalated genocide in Gaza, traditional media has responded the same way it responded to the so-called “war on terror”: parroting Western foreign policy, encouraging paranoia and fearmongering about the looming threat of so-called Islamic terrorism, and manufacturing consent for unwinnable wars in the Third World. 

In October 2023, CTV, the National Post, Toronto Sun, and Toronto Star replicated, with little to no challenge, the quickly debunked claims that Hamas beheaded 40 babies and perpetrated “mass rape.” 

While Palestinians in Gaza are being slaughtered, orphaned, maimed, and displaced by Canada-funded weapons, corporate media and Canadian politicians insist that the hundreds of thousands protesting the genocide are violent anti-Semites.  (more...)

Felling the corporate media beast