Israel Puts Media Clamp on Gaza

[spanone]

out of sight, out of mind?????


JERUSALEM — Three times in recent days, a small group of foreign correspondents was told to appear at the border crossing to Gaza. The reporters were to be permitted in to cover first-hand the Israeli war on Hamas in keeping with a Supreme Court ruling against the two-month-old Israeli ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza.

Each time, they were turned back on security grounds, even as relief workers and foreign nationals were permitted to cross the border. On Tuesday the reporters were told not even to bother coming.

And so for an 11th day of Israel’s war in Gaza, the several hundred journalists here to cover it wait in clusters away from direct contact with any fighting or Palestinian suffering but with full access to Israeli political and military commentators eager to show them around southern Israel, where Hamas rockets have been terrorizing civilians. A slew of private groups financed mostly by Americans are helping guide the press around Israel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07media.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[rvablue]

1. Kick for visibility. n/t

[spanone]

2. like bu$h* in iraq.....no news is good news

[malaise]

3. Looks like the military and the convicted criminal Olmert

trump the Supreme Court.

[EFerrari]

4. Amy is talking to the man who lost his father on that farm in N. Gaza

today -- Fares Akram. He's a journalist and his wife is about to have a baby. :(

[malaise]

6. I read about that.

I'll listen to Amy's Podcast later. How fugging sad. :cry:

[EFerrari]

9. The father went home to tend to his animals.

These stories are going to keep getting worse and worse.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. I saw somehere...

in an interview with a MSM journalist that Israeli officials were quite upfront about keeping the journalists out as a way to control the story.

One more thing pissing me off. :mad:

[malaise]

8. Except that the Supreme Court of Israel rules

that journalists be allowed into Gaza.

[EFerrari]

10. There are Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Some of them are reporting.

I hope we don't have to read about *them* getting killed. :grr:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. Unfortunately....

their reporting will be dismissed by many and I fear it will not get the coverage it deserves because of it. :(

[EFerrari]

14. Amy has been doing a great job. Have you been watching the show?

It will cut both ways, imho, to have Palestinians reporting this story themselves.

I'm so mad. I didn't think I had the energy to be this mad again.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. It's kind of triggering me a bit.

Reminding me of the Iraq invasion and how furious/impotent I felt. :cry:

I am remembering a rush of BushCo. people to Israel a few months ago -- we were thinking it was about targeting Iran. I think we now know what it was about. :(

I have been missing Any -- will make a point of watching.

[EFerrari]

16. Her show can be streamed in one gulp and also in segments.

democracynow.org

:hug:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

17. Thanks!

:hi: :hug:

[Sultana]

7. Fascists!

[uppityperson]

11. now now now, we don't want journalists to get injured, do we? It's for their own safety.

:sarcasm: k&r

[StudsT]

12. IDF Tradition

well, sure all military practice that art but with the www and all it's much more difficult to dominate the discussion =)

StudsT

[Purveyor]

18. There is no doubt in my mind that if is wasn't for the scant media coverage

the massacre is receiving, the bastard zionists would be slaughtering the Palestinians on a scale that would rival anything done by the bastard Nazi's in the '40's...

"These people" are diseased...

Ghouls...all!