Gaza: CNN "Missing in Action"
Campbell Brown said, "much of the information coming out of Gaza is impossible to verify and many of the images you see on television are provided by Hamas." This is total nonsense. Full Story »
Posted by John DeboisCampbell Brown said, "much of the information coming out of Gaza is impossible to verify and many of the images you see on television are provided by Hamas." This is total nonsense. Full Story »
Posted by John DeboisInformative report by Link TV's Jamal Dajani about CNN's reporting of the crisis in Gaza. The author holds CNN and american TV networks accountable for their shallow coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis - and provides good factual evidence to correct CNN anchor Campbell Brown's statement that "many of the images you see on television are provided by Hamas." Great reporting from the field, which provides a much-needed independent perspective to counter-balance superficial mainstream media coverage.
Reliable and accurate information IS available from inside Gaza, and through international networks that uniformly do a better job of accurate reporting. The Israeli government is doing an appallingly successful job of controlling access to information inside Gaza and the West Bank. And American journalists in Israel are failing to look beyond the news gag set by their hosts. At the very least, they need to report accurately--and repeatedly--on the highly newsworthy fact that they ... More »
Incidentally, your colleague Anderson Cooper parachuted into Tel Aviv and went to Ashkelon and Sderot…what a coincidence! He stood in front of the pile of exploded ... More »
If these stories are true, the American news media should be ashamed. The same thing happened in the Gulf war, when reporters were "allowed" to follow some Captain around while he told them the news. Unlike Vietnam, where real reporter's made there careers, western reporters are now lead around like sheep.
Some of my most vivid memories were of my father watching Dan Rather reporting from the field in Vietnam and my father trying to explain "War" to a small boy.
NO! SPEAK THE TRUTH! STOP USE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE "HUMAN SHIELD" LET SEIDA IN PEACE= ALL THE JEWISH SEFARAD COMMUNITY EXPELLED= WHERE ARE THEIR MONEY? WHERE ARE THEIR PROPERTIES? JEWISH PEOPLE OFF ALL THE ARABIAN WORLD= REFUGEES TOO!