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 DeboisReview
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 Qassam and Grad rockets and explained to us the difference between the two. I’ve never seen him explaining American-made Israeli hardware, such as F-16, Apaches, phosphorous bombs…maybe he ran out of time since he had spent a whole total of 24 hours in Israel before returning to the States.
Parachuted into Tel Aviv? When there is a perfectly workable airport? Perhaps Mr. Cooper has taken up skydiving?
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 have no access to the facts. If nothing else, they can check out Al Jazeera English to get a better understanding of what is happening in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.