Putting Propaganda In Its Place

Claudia Rosett

January 04, 2009 7:37 PM

A friend sent a must-see video — I’m not sure whether it was plucked off a blog, or straight off the Fox News web site, so thank you to whoever first put this in circulation. But here it is, a news anchor who doesn’t just nod along, or ask softball questions, but who calls out a Palestinian spokeswoman on the facts, as she recites propaganda.

She tries to put down the anchor, telling him, “You have never been to the Gaza Strip. You don’t know what it looks like.” Oh, yes he has… watch it here.

For media inquiries, please contact [email protected] Claudia Rosett is widely recognized as a ground-breaking reporter on corruption at the United Nations. Her investigative reporting skills, drawn from three decades as a journalist covering international affairs, led her to expose the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, the worst financial fraud in the history of humanitarian relief. Ms. Rosett worked from 1984-2002 as a staff editorialist, editor and reporter at The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared before six U.S. House and Senate Committees and Subcommittees to testify on subjects including U.N.-related corruption and the Iran-North Korea strategic alliance. Her work on Oil-for-Food earned Claudia the 2005 Eric Breindel Award and the Mightier Pen award, and for her on-site coverage of China's Tiananmen Square in 1989, she won an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence. She is a Foreign Policy Fellow with the Independent Women's Forum, and writes a column on foreign affairs for Forbes.com.