Author: Gabriela Perdomo | Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University
From the newsletter:
A few weeks ago, in an overheated and packed room at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto, several journalists took the mic to speak about their work in a powerful new book — When Genocide Wasn’t News — about how Canada’s legacy media has been responding to Israel’s intensive military campaign in Gaza.
The book features contributions from journalists — some writing under pseudonyms — who describe newsrooms gripped by fear and a misguided commitment to a notion of “objectivity” that fails to serve the public.
Today, in The Conversation Canada, an article by journalism professor Gabriela Perdoma of Mount Royal University, points out that while Palestinians in Gaza have endured over 640 days of relentless military assault by Israeli Defense Forces, including attacks on children, hospitals and aid workers, Canadian mainstream media has too often remained silent or misleading in its coverage. She says one of the issues is that “journalists who support peace efforts can easily be accused of being ‘biased’ in favour of those promoting peace.” And such accusations, she says, “can have an outsized impact on reporting and be used to silence journalists.”
Perdoma’s article challenges mainstream news narratives and calls for newsrooms to urgently reflect on how journalism in Canada must evolve, especially in times of war.
I really hate what this country has become.
From governments who are doing evening else but the right thing, just to get re-elected in 4 years, to the radicalisation of conservatives, to the sheer lack of empathy all around. I don’t feel like I belong here anymore. I feel like I’m the one who’s crazy.
Dittoing @nyan@lemmy.cafe here.
I’ve recently read an interview with a professor in International Politics, and basically there hasn’t been any good news on that front, and the world is heading back towards an age where “might makes right”. I think we see it too: countries are becoming more and more self-centred, willing to trade values for the benefit of their own country (or just the government themselves). The age of values-based international relations is over.
Fixed it for you, although I wish it weren’t so. This crap is going on everywhere, not just in Canada. The only countries not affected seem to be those that were already at rock bottom.