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‘Care should not correspond to caution’
12Jan09 – 2:11 pm
Is the BBC’s quest for balance actually distorting its coverage of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza? Index on Censorship Chief Executive John Kampfner thinks it might be: ‘Language, as any propagandist knows, is the most important tool. Hamas fighters are called “militants”. That, I am told, is a halfway house between “terrorist” and more sympathetic [...]
Propaganda and censorship in Gaza
05Jan09 – 1:04 pm
Rachel Shabi in the Guardian points out the role of Israel’s recently-created National Information Directorate in the portrayal of the conflict in Gaza. The Directorate was set up after an inquiry in to the second Lebanon war in 2006, with the aim of co-ordinating the message going out to international media. But propaganda and censorship [...]