Al-Dura and the “Public Secret” of Middle East Journalism
It occurred to me also that much of the western MSM sees journalism as a means to “…carry on the fight for my people.”
(“my people” in this case translating to those people who share my own personal political views)
How many editors willingly use their publications to further their agendas ?(recent examples, The New Republic and Scott Beauchamp’s writing or The Lancet reproducing a bogus statistical analysis of Iraqi deaths)
How many of Pallywood’s staged scenes in Gaza or doctored pictures from summer 2006 in south Lebanon…get reproduced in “western” media as a function of…
a journalist’s own philosophical predilections and political leanings ?
Also, inflammatory pictures (al Dura) are a means to journalistic recognition and notoriety.
To many “non news” phenomena are influencing journalism these days.
