It's Only A Lie If We Get Caught, And By Then It's Too Late

An (IDF) Israel Defence Forces' official press release, before media scrutiny :



The same IDF press release after media scrutiny, which amounted to two phone calls and a request for the evidence backing the claim to be provided to journalists. The IDF admitted they had no evidence, and so retracted the claim of 'Al Qaeda mercenaries'.

By then, of course, much of the western mainstream media had already published and aired official IDF propaganda.




It's no surprise, then, that the IDF and its spokespeople are making themselves very hard to reach now, for even the most well-resourced news organisations.

How many more outright lies have they bamboozled the media with about what happened during the Massacre In the Mediterranean?

How many in the media knowingly, willingly, then allowed themselves to be part of the monumentally failed attempt to bamboozle the majority of people who longer rely on the corporate mainstream media to tell them the truth?

Robert Fisk :

The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists – and I'm including the BBC's pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships – are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli journalists are writing about the killings with the courage that Western journalists should demonstrate.