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How to Sell a Genocide, and Sustain It: A Conversation with Adam Johnson
Today I am excited to talk with journalist and media critic Adam Johnson about his new book, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza. Many of us gained an intuitive sense of just how bad the media coverage of the genocide in Gaza and beyond was—not just in the right wing media, but also in the center-left media. Adam Johnson scoured thousands of stories, articles, news programs, cable shows, and social media posts to not only confirm our worst suspicions, but also, and critically, to fit them into a analytic framework to show the myriad tactics, rhetorical…
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