If a thousand Palestinians had been killed twenty years ago we would have been none the wiser.

It is unlikely we would have been able to view the conflict in Gaza as one where children were being killed on a daily basis by a nation backed by a superpower and armed with the world’s most sophisticated weapons.

If you were to read and view the reports on Gaza, which were being composed by experienced journalists you might well believe that this was some conflict where two equal sides were at war.

The Gaza crisis of the past few weeks has highlighted quite blatantly how bias the British media can be on specific issues.

But it is far too easy to blame the journalists as it is the editors and the owners who essentially make the final decisions on what is deemed ‘newsworthy’.

The British and the American media I am sad to say has been complicit in hiding the bare facts from the general population. An industry that prides itself in delivering news and fighting for human rights across the world must hang its head in shame.

They may well have got away with it in years gone but the internet has blown wide open the shocking level of control and manipulation to suit one's strategic aims.

Social media has destroyed the respect some people had for British media or the western media in general. We are no longer able to view them with the same amount of trust as we once did.

Many years ago if one had even mentioned the idea - 'that what was being reported upon might not be entirely true' one would have been called a conspiracy theorist.

How things changed in a brutal month. Social media I am confident in saying is about to shape the world more than the media can possibly imagine.

The media industry and nations are playing catch-up now as people power rules.

You cannot hide deaths and murders any more. You can try to dress-up your ‘mistakes’ when there really is nowhere to run.

The reporting in some sections of the media has been almost laughable in the face of overwhelming truths.

In the past few weeks children have been blown to pieces and we have had journalists almost ashamedly looking to find some sort of justification from Israeli government sources.

When the blood of babies is being shown on YouTube videos and Twitter we have news organisations trying their utmost to balance the report with a segment from the Israeli army.

Whilst women were clutching on to the bodies of their dead children we had newspaper opinion pieces making a case for the murderer.

It is always necessary give ample air time to an English speaking spokesperson to help to lessen the blow.

This is what happens when the media itself becomes part of the public relations machine. We are not reporting what we know but what we want people to know.

News presenters conditioned to accept specific modes of operation have had to sit back and read from scripts that they almost certainly feel a little uncomfortable with.

How is one possible to report on an incident when the bare facts were already being laid out for everyone to see on their mobile devices?

It is not as if the information has not been available through trusted mediums. The above picture was available on the PA Wire. It simply wasn’t something editors felt the British public should see.

Some publications and news reporters have made a concerted effort to report the truth as they would any other incident. It matters not to them if this was Africa, Central America or the Middle East. Murder is reported as murder.

You have to applaud them for standing up and upholding the ideals of fair journalism.

As for the rest – thank god for social media.