Posted on 04/13/2024 11:30:58 AM PDT by DoodleBob
As Israel has continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, its restrictions on journalists' access to the region have drawn scrutiny. New data released Thursday suggests Israel's tactics are fueling an "information war" with perverse incentives for hate-mongers and conspiracy theorists.
The Committee to Protect Journalists' preliminary estimate counts 95 journalists and media workers who have been killed in Gaza since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and the vast majority of those journalists are Palestinian. At the same time, Israel's decision to prevent international journalists from entering has enraged activists and the Foreign Press Association.
The Israeli Supreme Court in January upheld a ban on journalists entering Gaza that was imposed after the Hamas attack, the Times of Israel reported; the few foreign journalists allowed in have been under military escort and subject to censorship. And earlier this month, the Knesset passed a law that gave the government the ability to close foreign-owned media outlets like the Qatar-based Al Jazeera.
Israel’s choice raises “questions about what Israel does not want international journalists to see,” the Foreign Press Association said in a press release Monday.
That same day, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Israel’s refusal to allow international journalists into Gaza has created an “information war” that’s added trauma to the already harrowing situation in the region. “Denying international journalists entry in to Gaza is allowing disinformation and false narratives to flourish,” he said…. It’s a point I discussed with Joy Reid and my colleague Brandy Zadrozny on "The ReidOut" last fall
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The MSM is peeved that THEY can’t control the misinformation.
We are all in an information war.
We’ve been in an information war since the progressives cloaked their activism under a mask of “objectivity” in the 1920s and completely took over print (and later) TV media.
Too bad all of the “aid” and “medical help” and “media” have been caught passing information helpful to Hamas. That has a tendency to not let them “help”.
A shame she's still wasting oxygen...
Most of the “journalist” victims have been Palestinians. And all of those Palestinian journalists” were likely to be terrorists.
The MSM gets all its news from Hamas anyway, which is why none of it is accurate or true.
Yep the journos would just pass along sensitive info learned to Hamas, no law says the press has to be informed about everything
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