Young Radicals? Gen Z, Gaza, and Genocide
Young Radicals? Gen Z, Gaza, and Genocide
Akil N Awan examines the reasons behind the generational divide in attitudes to the conflict in Gaza.
How did young people foresee what their elders are only now realising?
Part of the answer lies in inhabiting very different media ecosystems. Millennials and Gen Z have long bypassed mainstream news media, who they dismiss as archaic gatekeepers, that rather than speaking truth to power, are instead servile to power, serving more as stenographers than journalists. And they have a point. On Gaza, US mainstream news media have largely failed their audiences, uncritically amplifying Israeli governmental or military narratives while simultaneously diminishing Palestinian civilian suffering.
Intressant! Det visar återigen hur viktigt det är med mediamångfald och att det är väldigt skadligt för demokratin när nästan all media är borgerlig och andra perspektiv än maktens intressen får svårt att höras