A Part of Our Visual Culture: Popular Media Reports of Events in Gaza
A Post-Modern Media Investigation of Events in Gaza During Israeli Media Blockade.
- The cynical self-referential use of the media: story-of-story about the master narrative - power
- Question of who’s the Author
- Story at margin piercing master narrative: by design in gorilla warfare or result of weakness in fabric of master narrative.
There has been very little discussion or debate in the U.S. about the conflict in Gaza. In general the media is preoccupied with Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, AKA Joe - “media should not report on war” - the - Plumber, reporting for Pajama tv from Israel.
Joe-the-Plumber: the right-wing media remnant of the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
And then there are the images of Israeli citizen’s viewing this tragedy from the relaxed distant hilltops:
Above image published on an Arab blog
Video Witnesses: Piercing the Master Narrative
1) A view from inside Gaza from a foreign media outlet.
Palestinian Girl Attempts to Stop Israeli Soldiers. I just want to compare her Heroic nature to that of the celebrity of Joe-the-Plumber’s epic of the documentarian on the killing fields.
2) Gaza Doctor’s tragedy caught on live Israeli TV. So human and so tragic. This shows how human complexities and emotions can override systems of power.
