The media coverage of Gaza broke something in the false consciousness framework that even Vietnam couldn’t fully break.
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The media coverage of Gaza broke something in the false consciousness framework that even Vietnam couldn’t fully break.
Vietnam happened before social media. The images were controlled. The body count was managed. The narrative had gatekeepers.
Gaza happened in real time, narrated by the people living it, on platforms that bypassed every editorial decision about what a Western audience was ready to see.
And what the Western audience saw, millions of them, especially young ones, was the gap.
The gap between what their governments said about human rights and what their governments did.
The gap between the coverage of one refugee crisis and another.
The gap between the vocabulary used for one population’s suffering and the vocabulary used for another’s.
That gap is not new. It has always existed.
What’s new is that an entire generation saw it at the same time, without the mediation of institutions that had spent decades learning how to make it invisible.
The mirror cracked.
Not because Gaza changed the West.
Because Gaza was visible in a way the West’s previous choices were not.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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