Barry Malone

The way UK media usually works is if one outlet breaks ranks on an omertà subject, the rest of the billionaire Press pack gets emboldened to follow. I’m not predicting this will happen as the fear and arm-twisting is ferocious on defying Israel - but it’s now a strong possibility

BBC News will insist on saying Gaza’s healthy ministry is “Hamas-run” even when reporting on people *starving to death*

A sudden dramatic shift in the BBC's coverage. Why? Because everybody knows that the utter calamity engulfing Gaza is going to be impossible to hide. For the Guilty Men of the media: you all had ample warning for 21 months! You did this! Everything that now happens is on you.

When you've even lost the Daily Express.

It’s no doubt a good thing to see this categorical, raw Daily Express front page tomorrow. But when it mattered most, it manufactured consent for the very horrors it is now condemning. This is cause and effect.

We're still doing this?

We have been watching children literally breathe their last breaths on our phones for almost two years. When will it stop? Or will we simply watch until there are no more Palestinian children left?

Hundreds of high-profile Western journalists are complicit. And, here's the thing, many of them genuinely believe that all they're doing is being objective. After 25 years in this business, I know the hubris well.

If professional objectivity means journalists can't speak out about Israel starving a million children in Gaza, can they at least speak out about the starving of their fellow journalists?

This is so common and heartbreaking. Today, I watched a Palestinian woman waiting in an ambulance at the Qalandia checkpoint for clearance from Israeli soldiers to cross. She could have been dying, and Israeli soldiers took their time.

I used to worry about my colleagues in Gaza being killed by Israeli drone strikes or bombing or sniper shots. Now I also fear they will starve to death. Journalists, why are you so silent about this? Where is your humanity?

Went to a gig. A young woman in the queue looked right at me, turned to her friend and said: “There’s a weird crowd here.” Please keep me in your prayers at this difficult time.

There's been a whole discourse for years concerned with declining trust in the mainstream media, and by and large it tends to just omit stuff like this.

NYT’s role is to reduce textbook genocide to a series of bumbling accidents, “bad planning” or the unfortunate but inevitable result of “war”. This is why they constitutionally refuse to contextualize this with the dozens of openly genocidal statements made by Israeli officials

And we all kept right on calling it Twitter.

You're not supposed to become desensitised to child murder and torture. It's giving up part of your humanity to give up and just accept this

There won’t be a media and political outcry about this because there is a hierarchy of racism

Anas is exhausted, he is hungry, he is watching his people being killed every day, but he continues to report. Why do so many of his Western colleagues not give a shit? Where is their advocacy for him, their solidarity?

Mrs Brown's Boys is Ireland's greatest revenge for colonisation yet.

Giving everyone a camera they carry around 24/7 is probably a top ten worst mistakes society has ever made