LCI: Gallagher Fenwick crushes the variable geometry indignation of the media

ByMuhammad

On the set of LCIthe journalist Gallagher Fenwick delivered a rare intervention, directly pointing out the differentiated treatment of conflicts by continuous news channels.

While the French media broadcast hours of airtime on strikes targeting Israeli towns like Dimona or Arad, he denounced an almost systemic indifference for other tragedies, notably in Lebanon or Iran. “And I think it’s very good to cover for Dimona, Arad. These events are extremely serious, it must be said, it must be covered carefully, etc. But it would be good for us to do that also when there are buildings that have collapsed in Lebanon by Israeli bombs. When, similarly in Tehran, there is a school in the south of the country where 150 children die under an American Tomahawk. All lives are equal. It’s good to spend two hours in Israeli cities. It’s also good to do it when it’s people who perhaps look less like us or who look less like certain people who are watching us. »

Beyond the observation, it is a scathing criticism of the dominant media software that is posed: an implicit hierarchy of lives, where some victims have a name, a face, a story — and others are relegated to simple anonymous statistics. An indignation of variable geometry, which questions less the facts than the way we look at them — and reveals a profound divide in the way in which information creates, or refuses to create, empathy.

Avatar photo
Muhammad

Muhammad is a visionary thinker and passionate writer who has been contributing to Understanding Islam for several years.