Book · 2026 · Business & Economics
How to Sell a Genocide
The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza
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All you need to know, I've been go and read Adam Johnson's book including the part called How to Sell a Genocide, especially the part about what an important role the New York Times played in buying time among liberals for Biden to work hand-in-hand with Netanyahu to proceed forward with this genocide.
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How to Sell a Genocide by Adam H. Johnson is a critical media analysis book that investigates how mainstream journalistic institutions shape public perception during international conflicts. Emily Jashinsky recommended and discussed the book across multiple episodes of Breaking Points in May 2026. Jashinsky highlighted specific sections of the book that examine the influential role played by liberal media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC, in reporting on the conflict in Gaza. According to Jashinsky, the author argues that these prominent journalistic organizations effectively bought crucial time for political leaders like President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue military campaigns and ethnic cleansing without immediate accountability. By pointing listeners to the book, Jashinsky underscored the dangerous complicity of mainstream media in manufacturing consent for foreign policy disasters and humanitarian crises. The discussions served as a damning critique of modern journalism, urging audiences to scrutinize how institutional media framing shields political figures from the consequences of supporting devastating conflicts abroad.
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Emily Jashinsky All you need to know, I've been go and read Adam Johnson's book including the part called How to Sell a Gen… 2
“All you need to know, I've been go and read Adam Johnson's book including the part called How to Sell a Genocide, especially the part about what an important role the New York Times played in buying time among liberals for Biden to work hand-in-hand with Netanyahu to proceed forward with this genocide.”
“And um Adam Johnson just published a book, How to Sell a Genocide, which focuses in specifically on liberal media and the role that they played, the New York Times in particular, but New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, all of them in buying enough time for Biden and for Netanyahu to conduct this ethnic cleansing and genocidal campaign.”