U.S. Media Complicity in Genocide in Gaza

Margot Patterson talks to Robin Andersen, professor emerita of communications at Fordham University, about Andersen's  new book, The Complicit Lens: U.S. Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza. In it, Andersen writes that the mainstream media in the United States abandoned journalistic standards of accuracy and impartiality in its coverage of events following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. She asserts that U.S. legacy media recycled Israeli talking points without adequate scrutiny, becoming stenographers of genocide. Andersen is on the Board of Directors of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, known as  FAIR, for which she writes regularly. She is the author, or co-author, of a dozen books, including A Century of Media, A Century of War, for which she won the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award.