When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, newsrooms across the world scrambled to send their reporters to the front lines. Journalists gave the international public firsthand experience of the conflict. Air raid sirens blared during live on-air reports. Reporters flinched at nearby explosions. They brought the world to the heart of the fighting: “20 Days in Mariupol”, a documentary that showcased an Associated Press report on the attack on the city, won an Oscar last month. That report, among other things, helped debunk Russian claims that the bombing of a maternity hospital, in which three people were killed, was “staged”.
No such international coverage has been possible a thousand miles away in Gaza, where war has claimed the lives of more than 33,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, since the Oct.… Seguir leyendo »
Within hours of Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7, I traveled with my team to Israel to take stock of the aftermath. We visited Beeri kibbutz, where the blood of nearly 100 victims was still smeared on the floor, and the site of the Tribe of Nova trance music festival, littered with the belongings of those who had fled for their lives. We interviewed the wounded and the grieving, including family members of the hostages held in Gaza. Walking along the border area where Hamas militants had poured into Israel, we came under heavy rocket fire. All of this contributed to our ability to create a vivid picture of the monstrosities of Oct.… Seguir leyendo »
Les médias occidentaux ont joué un rôle pernicieux dans la catastrophe qui s'est déroulée à Gaza, avec des conséquences humanitaires tragiques pour les habitants du territoire et des implications géopolitiques d'une portée considérable pour la région et au-delà. Non seulement ils ont présenté la tragédie de manière biaisée, mais cette couverture, fondée sur des récits non documentés, contradictoires ou erronés, a eu des conséquences humaines réelles sur le terrain.
La plupart des grands médias occidentaux ont adopté une présentation relativement homogène des événements depuis l'attaque du Hamas du 7 octobre, qui a tué 1 200 Israéliens, dont environ 400 soldats et membres du personnel de sécurité.… Seguir leyendo »
La noche del 13 de octubre estaba sentada en mi apartamento en Beirut cuando leí que unos periodistas habían sido alcanzados por un misil en el sur del Líbano. Mi amigo cercano, Issam Abdallah, trabajaba en el área como camarógrafo de Reuters para cubrir los enfrentamientos en la frontera entre Israel y Hizbulá tras el inicio, unos días antes, de la guerra en Gaza. Lo llamé de inmediato. Era un ritual que habíamos creado con los años: ya fuera que estuviéramos en el frente en Ucrania o en Siria, sabíamos que podríamos recibir una llamada del otro en cualquier momento que ocurriera un desastre.… Seguir leyendo »
I was sitting in my apartment in Beirut on the evening of Oct. 13 when I read that journalists had been struck by a missile attack in southern Lebanon. My close friend, Issam Abdallah, was working in the area as a cameraman for Reuters to cover the border clashes between Israel and Hezbollah after the war in Gaza began just days earlier. I called him immediately. It was a ritual we had developed over the years: Whether we were on the front lines in Ukraine or Syria, each of us knew to expect a call from the other anytime a disaster struck.… Seguir leyendo »
La semana pasada, una organización cercana a Tel Aviv lanzó un ataque contra las grandes agencias y medios internacionales que trabajan con freelancers en Gaza. Esa organización publicó imágenes de seis de estos colaboradores palestinos que vendieron fotos posteriores al brutal ataque de Hamás a los kibutz, que dejó 1.400 muertos, con la velada acusación de que estos grandes medios, entre los que mencionaban a las agencias AP y Reuters, y a The New York Times y la CNN, conocían el ataque de antemano. También vinculaba a estos fotógrafos con la organización terrorista.
El nombre de la organización israelí, Honest Reporting, ya debería levantar sospechas.… Seguir leyendo »
I first met the pioneering Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh more than two decades ago. She was in the early days of her career at Al Jazeera, and I was at the start of my stint as a legal adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
As a newcomer to the occupied West Bank, I was in awe of Shireen’s steeliness while reporting on Israel’s invasion of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002. On May 11, 2022, she was killed while covering an Israeli military raid in the city. Her producer was also wounded. Both were clearly identified as journalists, wearing body armor boldly marked “press” for all to see.… Seguir leyendo »
I am writing these words having just returned from the funeral of Shireen Abu Aqleh in Jerusalem. It is hard to describe the exact emotions which every Palestinian is feeling. One thing is certain: this has been the most incredible outpouring of emotion I’ve seen in Palestine.
Shireen was known to every Palestinian household. During the second intifada – a formative experience for many Palestinians – she was the face that delivered us the news. The TV screen became a window to everything going on: the F16 strikes, the Apache helicopter strikes, the tanks on the streets. And Shireen was out there, bringing the news to our homes.… Seguir leyendo »
The differences between those in the media who support and those who oppose Israel have never been clearer, but that doesn’t necessarily mean readers and viewers have gotten a better picture of the current conflict with Hamas.
Although I don’t like to criticize my conservative colleagues in the media, talk-radio hosts and television analysts have created a dichotomy of good versus evil. In the 35 years since I arrived in Lebanon for Newsweek, I have tried to provide a more nuanced view than that.
Radio host Michael Medved promoted his viewpoint that Israel stood for all that is good and Hamas for all that is evil.… Seguir leyendo »
Voy a apropiarme descaradamente del lema de Reporteros Sin Fronteras, "si no lo contamos, no existe", porque difícilmente se puede superar en este caso. Si los periodistas no podemos contar lo que está pasando en Gaza, si no podemos verlo en directo, porque el Gobierno de Israel nos prohíbe el paso al estrecho territorio palestino -aplicando una censura a la libertad de expresión e información digna de dictaduras como China o Cuba, que tanto solemos criticar los periodistas occidentales-, difícilmente podremos informar al resto del mundo de la barbarie que se está cometiendo con los palestinos, eso sí, a la vista de todos los países democráticos y sus medios de comunicación.… Seguir leyendo »
By Martin Walker, the editor of United Press Internacional (THE TIMES, 11/05/06):
THE OFFICIAL REPORT for the governors of the BBC on its coverage of the Palestine-Israeli conflict found predictably that there was “was little to suggest systematic or deliberate bias” but then went on to list a series of measurements by which the BBC could be said to be biased in favour of Israel.
This produced mocking guffaws in my own newsroom, where some of the BBC’s greatest hits — or perhaps misses — remain fresh in the memory. There was the hagiographic send-off for Yassir Arafat by a BBC reporter with tears in her eyes and that half-hour profile of Arafat in 2002 which called him a “hero” and “an icon” and concluded that the corrupt old brute was “the stuff of legends”.… Seguir leyendo »
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