EFE's and RTVE's preoccupation with defending themselves against false accusations of passing off old Kabul images as current scenes from Iran detracted from justified criticism of instances in which the mainstream Spanish news outlets provided less than rigorous reporting.
A lack of critical thinking has led major media outlets to resort to old canards and conspiratorial thinking instead of geopolitics, regional dynamics, allies and assassination attempts when analyzing why the U.S. initiated military action against Iran.
Lies about Khamenei while alive and dead were just some of the outrageous statements NBC left unchecked in its reporting on, and interviews with, senior Iranian regime officials both before and during the U.S.-Israeli military campaign.
Rachel Maddow argues the war with Iran is the result of Gulf state bribery, not Tehran’s behavior. However, her conspiracy collapses when confronted with decades of Iranian attacks, proxy warfare, and nuclear escalation.
PBS downplayed just how many Iranians were actually mourning the death of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, ignoring recent polling of the Iranian people.
In its obituary for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Wall Street Journal largely omitted from the record his regime’s role in fueling conflicts across the region, engaging in and supporting acts of terror across the world, and perhaps most egregiously, the regime’s repression of Iranian women.
CAMERA US media research manager David M. Litman joined the Indian news network WION to discuss developments in Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion and where things may go from here.
Sadly for Channel 4 News viewers, Cathy Newman not only failed to cross-examine or shame Dalton like she tried to do with Jordan Peterson, but treated him with kid gloves, thereby legitimizing the former ambassador’s diatribe about the West that was akin to what you’d expect to hear on Iran’s Press TV.
This is by no means the first time that Jeremy Bowen has tried to persuade BBC audiences that Israeli actions are the main factor behind the escalation of conflicts in the Middle East. However, as has been evident for many years, Bowen’s analyses often do anything but make a story more comprehensible to the corporation’s funding public due to his preference for advancing politically motivated and misleading talking points
For all the FT’s putative sophistication, it continues to get drawn-in to Tucker Carlson-style narratives evoking the "Israeli tail wagging the US dog" trope.
