Al-Dura and the “Public Secret” of Middle East Journalism
“And yet, one of the major differences between Western journalism and self-styled “Islamic media men” emerges on just this issue of the permissibility of staging the news and attitudes towards what constitutes honest information.”
Richard Landes needs to wake up and smell the proverbial coffee. The Al Dura scandal could not have been perpetuated without the active support of the MSM! Differences between the media of the Middle East and their Western counterparts are not as great as they should be. Both employ journalists who believe they “went into journalism to carry on the fight for my people.” CBS or The New York Times is merely a little more discrete and subtle when it deceives the American public. This is why we are obligated to spend the extra time during our busy day to get as close to the truth as possible. The rational approach to today’s MSM journalists, educated within a cultural milieu of moral relativism and deconstructionism, is to assume they are lying until proven otherwise. They have not earned the right to take our trust for granted.
