Zollmann, Florian

Florian Zollman

How the Western media support state terror – while millions die

1 August 2019Feature Florian Zollman and Alan Macleod and Jeffery Klaehn and Daniel Broudy and Matthew Alford

Five academics examine our media's coverage of foreign affairs, in a piece censored (and then rejected) by a leading liberal publication.

Egyptian security forces killed 817 protesters as they cleared the sit-in of Rab'a al-Adawiya Square in Cairo on 14 August 2013. Photo: Amsg07 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

When Noam Chomsky first observed that the United States had attacked South Vietnam, he was upending a particularly tedious case of media…