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Corporate media silent on IDF's raids of news orgs
Media silence is no surprise...
Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now reports: "Yesterday [4/8/02],
Democracy Now saw a CNN news zipper announcing that the Ramallah
offices of CNN, Fox and other networks had been raided by the
Israeli military. It also said that the news organizations had been
told to run their reports by the Israeli authorities. But after
scouring the internet and wires last night, we could find no other
reports of this, aside from a sentence buried in a CNN story
confirming that 'Israeli forces raided the offices of several news
organizations and one U.S. aid organization Monday, using gunfire
and explosives to enter the buildings.' The CNN story made no
mention of having to clear reports with the Israeli authorities.
But the Boston Globe reports this morning that Israel is
considering litigation against news organizations that do not
comply with its restrictions. An Associated Press report today says
Israel's military censor has ordered 'significant deletions.' ...
At least 20 journalists have come under Israeli fire since the most
recent offensive began March 29, according to the Paris-based
watchdog group Reporters Without Borders. Five journalists have
been wounded, including one U.S. reporter, Anthony Shadid of the
Boston Globe."
SOURCE: Democracy Now, April 9, 2002 (http://www.prwatch.org/)
Democracy Now saw a CNN news zipper announcing that the Ramallah
offices of CNN, Fox and other networks had been raided by the
Israeli military. It also said that the news organizations had been
told to run their reports by the Israeli authorities. But after
scouring the internet and wires last night, we could find no other
reports of this, aside from a sentence buried in a CNN story
confirming that 'Israeli forces raided the offices of several news
organizations and one U.S. aid organization Monday, using gunfire
and explosives to enter the buildings.' The CNN story made no
mention of having to clear reports with the Israeli authorities.
But the Boston Globe reports this morning that Israel is
considering litigation against news organizations that do not
comply with its restrictions. An Associated Press report today says
Israel's military censor has ordered 'significant deletions.' ...
At least 20 journalists have come under Israeli fire since the most
recent offensive began March 29, according to the Paris-based
watchdog group Reporters Without Borders. Five journalists have
been wounded, including one U.S. reporter, Anthony Shadid of the
Boston Globe."
SOURCE: Democracy Now, April 9, 2002 (http://www.prwatch.org/)
For more information:
http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/d...
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"The Israeli army has taken harsh action in recent days against
news media covering its campaign in the West Bank, employing
intimidation and other drastic measures to keep journalists away
from its largest offensive in a generation," reports MSNBC. The
Israeli government press office has announced that no "foreign
citizens (including members of the media) are allowed to be in the
closed zone," and that "anyone found in the closed zone henceforth
will be removed." Israel threatened unspecified legal action on
Tuesday against CNN and NBC for ignoring military orders and
broadcasting from the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah,
and revoked the credentials of two Abu Dhabi TV journalists after
their network broadcast a story alleging that Israeli troops
executed a group of young men in Ramallah. "Journalists' groups
have united in their condemnation of the Israeli authorities for
failing to protect press freedom in the West Bank town of
Ramallah," reports Jessica Hodgson. Some information, however, is
coming out through non-traditional, activist media. For the
Palestinian side of things, check out the Electronic Intifida,
which includes an eyewitness report from Ramallah by Tzaporah
Ryter, a Jewish peace activist from Minnesota, titled "How to Get
Food While Getting Shot At.". Useful historical background about
the current conflict appears in Robert Friedman's December article
from the Nation, "And Darkness Covered the Land," or read Charles
Yost's "Israel and the Arabs: The Myths that Block Peace" (written
in 1969). Also, the Guardian of London has assembled a roundup of
recent perspectives from both Israeli and Middle Eastern
newspapers.
SOURCE: MSNBC, April 4, 2002
More web links related to this story are available at:
http://www.prwatch.org/cgi/spin.cgi?date=April%202002#1017900001