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Did CNN really show that?
The truth is not what you think
For so many years, it has been clear that mainstream media is little more than a propaganda factory. That’s the case in China, that’s the case in Russia, and that’s the case in America. All of the world’s big players. But sometimes the media can surprise you.
As one of America’s most watched news networks, CNN wields incredible power. People still turn to the news for ‘truth.’ What CNN shows, shapes the opinion and sentiments of millions of Americans. CNN is not quite in the same league as Fox News, both in terms of it’s viewer numbers and and the extremity of it’s obvious biases, but you’d have to be a complete idiot to believe that any of the big three news networks show both sides of any story. Right?
The official stance, vigorously defended by America’s media has always been ‘the Palestinians are brutal terrorists and Israelis must be protected’. Every Israeli injury and death is heavily covered, with no word of the thousands of Palestinian deaths at the hands of the worlds fourth largest army. Yes, one of the world’s largest armies mainly kills civilians.
Cell phone shot videos are pouring out of Jerusalem showing Israeli forces using grenades, bullets, water cannons, boots, batons and fists against unarmed men, women and children, and illegal settlers ramming stone…
