Bombarded
by disinformation campaigns, many British Jews are being misled into
seeing Corbyn as a threat rather than as the best hope of inoculating
Britain against the resurgence of right-wing anti-Semitism menace
by
Jonathan Cook
End-of-year
polls are always popular as a way to gauge significant social and
political trends over the past year and predict where things are
heading in the next. But a recent poll of European Jews – the
largest such survey in the world – is being used to paint a deeply
misleading picture of British society and an apparent problem of a
new, left-wing form of anti-semitism.
Part
9 - Media distortions
The UK
media have played a vital role in promoting a false image of Corbyn,
as a survey by the Media Reform Coalition found in September
when it analysed British coverage of the Labour party. The coalition,
which is led by academics, concluded that there had been systematic
“disinformation” from media outlets. Inaccurate and misleading
reporting by the supposedly liberal Guardian was especially
pronounced.
“Two
thirds of the news segments on television contained at least one
reporting error or substantive distortion,” its researchers
also discovered. These failures included “marked skews in
sourcing, omission of essential context or right of reply,
misquotation, and false assertions made either by journalists
themselves or sources whose contentious claims were neither
challenged nor countered.”
The
group is reluctant to infer that these consistent media failures
indicate an intention to smear Corbyn.
It is
worth recalling that shortly after Corbyn was elected Labour leader
in summer 2015 an unnamed British army general was given a platform
in the Establishment’s newspaper, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Times,
to denounce Corbyn. He warned that the army would use “whatever
means possible, fair or foul” to prevent the Labour
leader from becoming prime minister and being able to carry out his
policies.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but is a British general threatening a military coup in the Sunday Times?! pic.twitter.com/VKu00JPvMl— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) September 20, 2015
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