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HonestReporting once named Ken Livingstone the Lousiest Journalist Wannabe. The reason? This fawning interview with Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal in an edition of the New Statesman, which Red Ken was guest editing. I guess it got someone's attention in Iran;...
You'll never see a video like this come from the West Bank. A CNN film crew was caught up in some Tunisian tear gas. At around the 3:00 minute mark, photographer Mary Rogers poo-poos concern for her health, and even...
Ron Dermer, one of Bibi's advisors, wrote an impressive letter to Time in response to the recent article, Israel's Rightward Lurch Scares Some Conservatives. After addressing reporter Karl Vick's take on the Shin Bet, a possible oath of allegiance, an...
Aussie Dave just announced the short list of participants for his Pro-Israel Blog-Off 2011. The match-ups can be viewed in the table at the bottom of the official Blog-Off page. Submissions will be pitted against each other; winners who advance...
Zalmi's Weblog notes an Israeli tourism ad appearing in the Daily Mail that never mentions Israel. Funny thing is, the ad doesn't mention Palestine either. The ad includes a link directing you to Riviera Travel, which has some kind of...
Over-stretched Western news services rely heavily on arrangements with Palestinian free-lance writers and photographers who know the West Bank: the terrain, the language, the people, the mores. For better or for worse, Big Media coverage of the West Bank would...
CNN looks into PA efforts to rein in the invective and incitement of Palestinian preachers. I credit reporter Kevin Flowers for drawing attention to the problem, but there's a nuance he doesn't make clear enough. As the Washington Post reported...
UPDATE: Jan. 19:An astute reader just emailed wondering why AFP caption assumes the driver's a "settler." Do the photographer and the AFP photo desk believe that living on the wrong side of the Green Line mitigates this ugly attack? *...
? Following Tunisian unrest, Salam Fayyad invited reporters over to reassure international donors the Palestinian street that the PA economy is doing just fine, thank you very much: The message he wanted to send to 2.5 million Palestinians in the...
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