IF I am on the operating table in a hospital, I will ask the surgeons to delay their work, so I could listen to the presentations by the diplomatic envoys of the West in Guyana on World Press Freedom Day which is observed across the world..

The shameless bias in reporting in the Western press of the death and destruction and committal of genocide in Gaza by the Israeli army on the instruction of its government is beyond belief.

No journalist in the Third World or developing world or Global South (which ever typology you prefer) should ever in their career look up to the Western press as the standard bearer of professional journalism. Perhaps permanently, the genocide in Gaza has killed off the credibility of Western journalism in the eyes of the world.

In its Sunday, February 4, 2024 edition, the UK Guardian has run an account of the shameless level the CNN administration has descended to in directing its journalists to slant their reporting to give coverage to the Israeli pronouncements and to avoid giving coverage to the Palestinian explanations.

The story is headlined, “CNN staff says network pro-Israeli slant amounts to journalistic malpractice.”
Every citizen in the Third World must read this journalistic piece in the Guardian and I will quote from it.

Do not rely on my quotes. You have to read the account to understand what the Gaza genocide has done to the image of Western journalism
I quote: “CNN is facing a backlash from its own staff over editorial policies they say have led to a regurgitation of Israeli propaganda and the censoring of Palestinians perspectives in the network’s coverage of the war in Gaza. Journalists in CNN newsrooms in the US and overseas say broadcasts have been skewed by management edicts and a story-approval process that has resulted in highly partial coverage of the Hamas massacre on 7 October and Israel’s retaliatory attack on Gaza.”

But don’t rush to assign your anger to the CNN only. The Western media gave extensive coverage to a fiction deliberately planted on the world by the Israeli government that in their incursion into Israel on October 7, 2023, Hamas militants behead over 40 babies. It was Israeli propaganda to acquire global sympathy and paint Hamas fighters as uncivilised.

The beheading of babies never occurred and Rami Khouri of the American University of Beirut wring an opinion piece for Al Jazeera on the nasty and gutter Israeli propaganda about beheaded babies, titled his article, “Watching the watchdogs: Babies and truth die in Israel-Palestine.”

He noted that when a wild, rightwing zealot in the Israeli army reserve published the fiction, “the gruesome news spanned the world’s media in hours.”

What happened to fact-checking that is so sacred to journalism? In the Guardian’s piece on CNN’s unscrupulous reporting on the Israeli committal of genocide, it was revealed that a senior CNN official who, when previously headed a top international organisation, had behaved the same way and was purportedly biased towards Israel and sought to get a reporter in Jerusalem removed. Very unflattering things were said by the journalistic staff about senior persons at CNN.

From every Western country in the world, the reporting on the death and destruction in Gaza by the media is given an Israeli slant. And this ironically includes the very Guardian that has now exposed CNN. After 40 years of service, the Guardian has fired its cartoonist for his drawing of Netanyahu.

When a long serving media operative could be dismissed by one of the world’s most liberal newspaper, then surely, Western journalism died in the genocidal destruction of Gaza. Even MSNBC, another left-liberal media house got into the act by removing non-Caucasian reporters and anchors with Arab heritage from reporting on the Israeli mission to destroy Gaza.

There is a group operating in the world named Reporters Without Borders (RWB) based in France. Its annual report, like the annual report of Transparency International based in Germany, delivers condescending evaluations about press freedom in the Third World. To date, RWB has said not one word about the degradation of journalism in the print and electronic media in the entire Western World.

But if you are a betting person then you will win millions if you wager that in its annual report RWB will not utter one word of condemnation of the vulgarisation of journalism in the Western media which we are seeing on a daily basis. Why? Because in the West, the media is not seen as unprofessional as in the Third World. What do you call this thinking? Is this racial superiority?