SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Why are #CNN and #LeMonde treating #Gaza’s famine as a “controversy”? Why avoid the word famine when the UN calls it “deliberate and widespread”? And how does “false balance” turn a war crime into a “disputed narrative”?

Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Why are #CNN and #LeMonde treating #Gaza’s famine as a “controversy”? Why avoid the word famine when the UN calls it “deliberate and widespread”? And how does “false balance” turn a war crime into a “disputed narrative”?

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Al Jazeera Journalism Review

Why are #CNN and #LeMonde treating #Gaza’s famine as a “controversy”? Why avoid the word famine when the UN calls it “deliberate and widespread”? And how does “false balance” turn a war crime into a “disputed narrative”? * Diluting the Palestinian narrative with cautious headlines CNN framed a child’s starvation as a “food crisis”. Le Monde deferred to Israeli claims. Neither placed Israel as the central actor --grammatically or morally. * Sidestepping famine; softening facts Both outlets cite famine only via Palestinian or NGO voices, while pairing them with Israeli rebuttals --turning the situation into a “he said, she said”. * Manufactured balance Where Ukraine coverage names the aggressor, Gaza coverage defaults to symmetry, turning starvation into a matter of opinion, not law.