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January 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:06 AM

Alternative forms of media continue to offer new opportunities

This week I started a new venture (what else is new?) to broadcast interviews using online video and audio technologies. The show is called "Point to Point." We'll see if I can manage a weekly production (and it is a production, despite the promotion
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 11:37 AM

The Israeli press is far more open to address real issues than the American media

I give the Israeli media much credit for the openness by which they address the most controversial public issues. Of course, they are trying to be professional journalists and you might ask, so what's news? Media are supposed to take on the tough issues
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 12:51 PM

Interview with Sam Bahour, a NAAJA member living in the Occupied West Bank; PSA on Domestic Violence in the Arab American community

Some resources: An Interview with an American Palestinian activist in the Occupied West Bank; a Public Service Announcement addressing rising domestic violence in the Arab American community in Chicagi's Southwest Suburbs (where the largest concentration
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 10:30 AM

International herald Tribune continues its pandering of broad terrorist stereotypes

Once again, the International herald Tribune continues its pandering to stereotypes that anything progressive int he Middle east is "terrorist" related. Writer Robert F. Worth this time writes about how one Arab Satellite channel, al-Arabiya Satellite
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:56 AM

Followup on Kenneth Woodward's courageous column on Bethlehem

An editor at Commentary Magazine defamed Kenneth L. Woodward for describing in the Wall Street Journal the challenges Christians (and Muslims) face in Bethlehem and the sourrounding areas, which are in the Occupied West Bank. That editor claims many of
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:26 PM

Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias at Dateline NBC ... very sad

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter reported yesterday that former Dateline NBC reporter John Hockenberry, who was laid off from Dateline in early 2005, claims that in the aftermath of September 11, the network diverted him from reporting on al Qaeda and instead
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:22 AM

Restrictions on Press freedom continues in New Year in most countries

Hannah Allam of the McClatchy/Tribune newspapers — she’s the Cairo Bureau Chief — wrote an interesting piece a few days ago on the challenges facing bloggers in the Middle East. She offers a rundown of the challenges many Arab countries have imposed on
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008 9:53 AM

There is a middle ground in the Middle East and journalists should start showing it

The real irony of the Middle East is that it should be called the Extremist East, because that is how most journalists write about it. There is no middle in the "MIddle East" and there should be. I don't expect it from the political activists that dominate
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