Nest of Fearties #12: How the Scottish Media Failed Gaza w/ Laura Webster and David Jamieson

At the time of recording, at least 248 journalists have now been killed in Gaza, more than in any other conflict in modern times. Yet many in the mainstream media still can’t bring themselves to condemn the killing of their Palestinian colleagues. From the BBC to CNN, from The New York Times to The Guardian, in their reporting of Israel’s genocide over the last 23 months, outlet after outlet framed their coverage to minimise the severity of the crime. As John Pilger once said, “there is something called censorship by omission. You don’t really discuss what you leave out but it’s left out.”In Scotland, this apathy – and often outright hostility – to the suffering of the Palestinian people has been mimicked by the country’s leading opinion writers. Intent on viewing Israel’s crimes through the lens of the culture war, rather than an attack on our common humanity, all too few in Scotland’s mainstream have called a spade a spade – or a war crime a war crime. To discuss the Scottish media’s capitulation on Gaza, Coll McCail is joined by David Jamieson, the editor of Conter, and Laura Webster, the editor of The National. Support Skotia on Patreon for as little as £5 a month.Read David’s article: ‘Moral Collapse How The Scottish Commentariat Failed on Gaza’Subscribe to The National.