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Israel Attacks Lebanon (12 July 2006-)
Media Analysis and Freedom of the Press
The fury of Israel's offensive in Lebanon has more than a few observers shaking their heads. The vast majority of Western media reports do not accurately portray the fact that the vast majority of the dead are civilians, most of them women and children. A Reuters dispatch this week described Israel's choice of targets as "puzzling," but for the most part Western television viewers, newspaper readers, and Web surfers are reading highly sanitized versions of the news, spun in such a way as to dilute the brutality of the Israeli onslaught and especially to ensure that blame is placed squarely on Lebanon in general and Hizbullah in particular.
Media Analysis
Down the Memory Hole, FAIR (29 July 2006)
Western media fail to tell the real story on Lebanon, Mark J. Sirois (21 July 2006)
Dovetailing violence, Zachary Wales (21 July 2006)
"Because This is the Middle East", FAIR (20 July 2006)
The racist subtext of the evacuation story, Jonathan Cook (19 July 2006)
Disproportionate number of British journalists in Israel versus Lebanon, Arab Media Watch (18 July 2006)
Notes from northern Israel: In the line of media fire, Jonathan Cook (18 July 2006)
On blogging and citizen reporting from warzones, EI Press Release (18 July 2006)
Israelis are dying: it must be an escalation, Jonathan Cook (17 July 2006)
NY Times: Arab leaders to blame, fair game for assassination, Patrick O'Connor (15 July 2006)
Attacks on the Media
Despite direct hits, TV stations play vital role in relief efforts, IRIN (28 July 2006)TV crews targeted by Israeli warplanes in the south, CPJ (27 July 2006)
Reporters Without Borders in Beirut to express solidarity with Lebanese media, RSF (27 July 2006)
Lebanese journalist killed, TV transmitters hit, CPJ (24 July 2006)
Israeli forces strike Al-Manar TV facilities, CPJ (14 July 2006)
Seven journalists and media workers injured in Lebanon, RSF (13 July 2006)
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| Syrian TV images of Israeli TV images of Israeli airforce bombcams over Beirut. In the Arab world — not to mention in Lebanon itself — people were glued to their television sets in horror at Israel's decimation of the civilian infrastructure. (EI) |
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