A big part of America’s difficulty with facing the truth is the media abandonment of accountability. Led by FOX and mimicked by the major news outlets, verifying reports, or even telling the truth is no longer a requirement of good journalism. At least that’s what the media wants you to think.
Much of the rhetoric and opinions shared by the American public comes courtesy of TV. It is the ownership of news and media outlets that has allowed veracity to waver, particularly when it supports or denies top executive opinion. There seems to be no recognition of hypocrisy, just a willing and unrelenting bias that translates lies into good ratings. This is best evidenced by FOX News programming in support of the Trump “Big Lie,” that the 2020 election was stolen.

 
The Rupert Murdock controlled conglomerate showed no concern for the truth, until a $575 million defamation suit settlement retired Murdoch. His son is now CEO, with another defamation case looming on the horizon. FOX prepares to relaunch under another name, reviving its original strategy with low-budget popular fare on the fledgling site Tubi. (Roland Martin highlights this duplicitous media strategy on his Rolan Martin Unfiltered podcast). In the time it takes the second lawsuit to come to trial, FOX will have switched programming (and assets) to a new corporation featuring Tubi, hedging FOX liability with a new venture after the dust has settled on what will likely be a sum more substantial than $575 million.
The long-rumored media dominance of Jewish Americans is plain to see as the divergent opinions of the Israeli-Hamas war have been highlighted at every opportunity. Actual footage of activities in Gaza has been curated so all evil intention points to Hamas. Any support for Palestinians is treated as hate-speech, even though news coming from the Gaza strip points directly at Israeli war crimes. Even the origin of the conflict seems questionable. Israeli security forces are among the world’s best. Comparatively, Hamas is not nearly as trained or resourced. How could such a breach of security happen at simultaneous points when the strip is regularly monitored? Why does Israel continue to hunt and bomb the entire population to reach rebels? Why are Israelis occupying more Palestinian territory? Much like the racist of the Jim Crow era, Zionist zealots are telling this war story as if their actions are defensible. How do these radicals not see the irony in their attempts to exterminate neighboring humanity for their religious beliefs?
Mindful citizens recognize that history repeats itself. We have seen what happens when the world pretends racist, ethnic cleansing is not their concern. It is sad that those lessons are lost on the people who once so fiercely proclaimed their suffering above all others.