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As bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But the US media was quick to downplay, obscure, and repackage an emerging campaign of extermination into a slick "war on terror" framework.
How to Sell a Genocide is a thorough indictment of US corporate media's role in enabling—and, at times, directly inciting—one of the most devastating campaigns of mass killing in modern memory. Johnson unpacks how major news outlets like The New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC systematically sanitised Israel's war crimes, hid the US's central role, and dehumanised the Palestinian people.
Drawing from deep, original data-driven analysis, Johnson dissects the mechanics of propaganda, from the selective empathy, strategic omissions, overt racism and repetition of state-sanctioned falsehoods, to the demonisation of humanitarian workers and dishonest coverage of campus protests. With clarity and moral force, Johnson argues that the genocide could not have been sustained without the active, sustained complicity of the US media.
Contents
Introduction
1. How the White House press corps helped the Biden administration distance itself from the horrors of Gaza
2. MSNBC, CNN, NYTimes, Washington Post double standards and who is allowed to be human
3. How The New York Times helped Israel militarize humanitarian workers, civilians, and doctors
4. Sunday Morning news shows, Morning Joe ,and how "Agenda Setting" TV news limited the debate to "how many Palestinian civilians should die"
5. "40 beheaded babies" and 72 hours that primed the public for months of war crimes
6. Ukrainians vs. Palestinians: a comparative analysis of selective solidarity in the journalist profession
7. The manufactured Ivy League "anti-semitism" congressional show trials of December 2023 and the smearing of campus protests in Spring 2024
8. Removing agency, natural disaster-izing mass killing, and covering documented war crimes like they are earthquakes
Conclusion
