Media analyst Adam Johnson joins CPCJ's Natasha Lennard to discuss his new book, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza (Pluto Press).
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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. 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 demonization of humanitarian workers and dishonest coverage of campus protests. Johnson argues that the genocide could not have been sustained without the active, sustained complicity of the US media.
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