Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land (2 of 10)

By Bathsheba Ratzkoff and Sut Jhally

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• colbert
• borat
• truth
• israel
• arab
• palestine
• usa
• media
• lebanon
• chomsky
• nbc
• cbs
• abc
• cnn
• sky

[FREEW0RLD2012]

I feel honestly sad for you. You,as with all American's,myself included,have been subjected to CONDITIONING/brainwashing since we were old enough to sit in front of the TUBE. I woke up. I got aware. Can YOU? Are you EVEN WATCHING this video series?Or just making stupid comments?

[boing3887]

what you say about the middle east is true, but egypt, saudi arabia and turkey are our allies, we had a very direct hand in iran's current society (look up 1979 revolution of iran) and we supported pakistan's dictatorship of course. saudi arabia, btw, is the most extreme islamic govt in the ME and yet they're close friends of our govt. it's not west vs east, man, that's simplistic at best and utterly false at worst

[13612]

What exactly is it that Israel is after? What is their purpose in doing this and why is the United States their biggest supporter? Someone head me in the right direction. I want to learn more of this.....I believe our government has been loading us with propaganda for many other gains as well. But please stick to my questions.....clue me in a bit

[trollfinger]

No they do, they support Israel finacially and with weapons. While they commit these crimes and America will always side with Israel.

[asheemak]

I hope you guys are not trying to misdirect people from main message of this video (which I believe it)

America has democracy and in Middle East doesnt have democracy, still doesnt change the fact how media picks peoples brain in us.

This video is just about, how some people are killing other people and Americans dont care about it.

[idosun]

I was replying FREEWORLD2012...

[asheemak]

you are right, but how is this related to this video !!!!!

[idosun]

Please act your age and grant me with minimum respect. Calling my comments stupid and throwing some vague slogans of conspiracy theories isn't all the brilliant amigo.

[idosun]

Americans have more freedom and democracy than any citizen in any Arab/Muslim country in the ME can even dare to dream of.

Remind me when the last female clitoris was cut up in the US? (in Egypt it happens every day). How many gay ppl were murdered in the US lately? In Iran, Palestine and Egypt they are persecuted and hanged by the authorities. When did the Arab citizens in the ME last had an election with more then 1 nominee? When could their woman vote?! In SA they arent even alowed to drive.

[idosun]

Americans have more freedom and democracy than any citizen in any Arab/Muslim country in the ME can even dare to dream of.

Remind me when the last female clitoris was cut up in the US? (in Egypt it happens every day). How many gay ppl were murdered in the US lately? In Iran, Palestine and Egypt they are persecuted and hanged by the authorities. When did the Arab citizens in the ME last had an election with more then 1 nominee? When could their woman vote?! In SA they arent even aloud to drive