NOTE: Because of the Witness| شاهد Gaza Through Children’s Eyes exhibition, this week’s reading group will be taking place in the Moos Space, Moosdorferstraße 7-9 and at the earlier time at 6.30.

Recommended Reading

• Jonathan Cook Why the news media’s job is to groom us
• Edith Olmsted  Why Are CNN, ABC, and NBC Reporters Embedding With the Israeli Military?
• Elena Dudum  Palestine and the Power of Language
• Ben Burgis  The New York Times Has an Ugly Anti-Palestinian Bias
• Mike Berry and Greg Philo  Why does it happen? (from More Bad News from Israel)
• interview with Hebh Jamal  “Living in this country, there is no nuance when it comes to the idea of Palestinian Liberation”

Supplementary Reading

• Vidya Krishnan  Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism
• Shav MacKay  Between a Rock and a Staatsräson: What’s Up With German Media?
• Dessi Gomez  LA Times Bars Staffers Who Signed Open Letter Criticizing Israel From Covering Gaza 
• Adam Johnson, Othman Ali  Coverage of Gaza war in the New York Times and other major newspapers heavily favored Israel, analysis shows
• Chris McGreal  CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’
• Günseli Yalcinkaya  The girlbossification of global warfare

Books to read on the general subject of media

• Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky  Manufacturing Consent
• John Molyneux  Will the Revolution be televised?