Speech clip reveals shocking media statistic from @dawnmenaorg
The speaker, Mehdi Hasan, begins by stating "the silence is deafening" and then poses a rhetorical question to the audience about the number of Palestinian guests invited onto major U.S. Sunday news shows in the year following October 7th. He dramatically reveals the answer is zero, emphasizing the complete erasure of Palestinian voices from mainstream media during what he calls a genocide. He then pivots to introduce Alana Hadid, praising her for becoming a vital source of information and solidarity on social media, and concludes by highlighting the courage it takes to speak out about Palestine and genocide in the face of demonization and smear campaigns.
Creator: @dawnmenaorg on Instagram
Transcript
The silence is deafening. Do you know how many Palestinian guests were invited onto the Sunday shows onto CNN, ABC, NBC in the year after October 7? Anyone know? Tier. Zero across the course of an entire year during a genocide in which Palestinian voices were being ignored, erased, silenced. Lanzi Better, as Alana is known to her 800,000 followers on Instagram, became a vital source of information, analysis, storytelling, solidarity. And let's be real, since 10/07/2023, that has taken guts. It h
Topics: Politics, Communication
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