Articles by Des Freedman

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For Western Media, Only Israeli Lives Matter
Des Freedman | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – Right across the Anglo-American mainstream media, the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter.

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The Terror News Cycle
Des Freedman | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2017

We would all benefit from a slower journalism that didn’t resort to tired stereotypes and sought to expand, not to contaminate, our understanding of a violent world. The trouble is that there is neither the business model nor the political will to foster such an approach.

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Paris and Beirut: Journalism’s Selective Compassion
Des Freedman – Open Democracy, 23 Nov 2015

Is it editors, journalists or audiences to blame? “A life is a life” said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reflecting on the disparity between blanket media coverage of the atrocities in Paris last Friday and what he perceived as a distinct lack of attention to the loss of life in other parts of the world.

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