Links to an analysis from Middle East Monitor, and two commentaries from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the first via ScheerPost; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up for today’s LEBANON, IRAN and GAZA so far, and down for MEDIA 6-12-26.) — MCM

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Unmasking Axios and its Israeli ties, by Sahar Huneidi | Middle East Monitor  There is a well-worn playbook for seizing power over information. First, declare the existing press corrupt, dishonest and  contemptible,  then position yourself as the only clean , honest, and  “worthy” alternative. Finally,  . . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 12  Western media normalize ethnic cleansing of Lebanon by viewing it through Israel’s eyes, by Belén Fernández | FAIR / ScheerPost  The eagerness of journalists to do Israel’s bidding is all the more confounding given that Israel is currently the No. 1 killer of journalists in the world. A recent Associated Press article (5/29/26), for example, reduced the pulverization of Lebanon to simply . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 11  Forty years of raising hell about corporate media bias, by Jeff Cohen | FAIR   In the mid-1980s corporate news outlets were on bended knee for a reactionary, declining, war-mongering president — and Reaganism was ushering in an era of dangerous media mergers. READ MORE . . .

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