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  1. Media Lens here review the recent reporting of Anas al-Sharif's murder and list all the failings in that reporting and all the ways journalists should be doing better.

    #MediaLens | ‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism

    medialens.substack.com/p/israe

    #AnasAlSharif #Gaza #Genocide #TheIsrael #Media #Journalism

  2. There are some excellent examples of meta-positioning in these Media Lens articles on corporate media takes on John Pilger and Robert Fisk:

    scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2012/S00

    scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2011/S00

    Journalists who speak truth to power are routinely smeared, or damned with faint praise, by colleagues who know that it's not good for their career amendment to acknowledge the truth when it's so inconvenient to the powerful.

    #NewsMedia #journalism #MediaLens #JohnPilger #RobertFisk #MetaPositioning