Vanmiddag las ik nogmaals een stuk uit The Road Map to Nowhere. Israel/palestine since 2003, geschreven door wijlen Tanya Reinhart, een bewonderenswaardige, dappere joods-Israelische vrouw, hoogleraar, die al heel lang de terreur van de Israelische bezetting en belegering aan de kaak had gesteld, zonder dat de Nederlandse commerciele massamedia daar belangstelling voor hadden getoond. Die kwamen telkens weer met dezelfde propagandisten van het CIDI opdraven. En waarom werd Tanya Reinhart niet gehoord? Het antwoord is simpel, de strekking van haar verhaal was dezelfde als die van de demissionaire premier van Israel, Ehud Olmert.
Zolang de bij-apen in de Nederlandse commerciele massamedia nog niet doorhebben dat de hoofdapen in de VS een andere toon beginnen aan te slaan, blijven ze doorgaan met de oude propaganda. U moet nu opletten wat de bij-apen de komende tijd gaan doen. Ik voorspel u dat ze de komende maanden gaan draaien. Overigens is wat de Olmert zei niet nieuw, het enige nieuwe was dat hij het zei: ''In a few years, my grandchildren will ask what their grandfather did, what kind of country we have bequeathed them.... We have a window of opportunity -- a short amount of time before we enter an extremely dangerous situation -- in which to take a historic step in our relations with the Palestinians and a historic step in our relations with the Syrians. In both instances, the decision we have to make is the decision we've spent forty years refusing to look at with our eyes open.
We must make these decisions, and yet we are not prepared to say to ourselves, "Yes, this is what we must do." We must reach an agreement with the Palestinians, meaning a withdrawal from nearly all, if not all, of the [occupied] territories. Some percentage of these territories would remain in our hands, but we must give the Palestinians the same percentage [of territory elsewhere] -- without this, there will be no peace. Including Jerusalem? Including Jerusalem.'
We must make these decisions, and yet we are not prepared to say to ourselves, "Yes, this is what we must do." We must reach an agreement with the Palestinians, meaning a withdrawal from nearly all, if not all, of the [occupied] territories. Some percentage of these territories would remain in our hands, but we must give the Palestinians the same percentage [of territory elsewhere] -- without this, there will be no peace. Including Jerusalem? Including Jerusalem.'
De journalistiek bestaat uit lakeien en hoerenlopers. Maar ja, dat waren en deden de priesters vroeger ook, toen iedereen nog in iets anders geloofde.
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Over journalistiek gesproken,
een recensie van het boek "Flat earth news" geschreven door documentaire maker Nick Davies,en gerecenceerd in The London review of books (6-3-08) door John Lanchester.
Onderzoekers at Cardiff University's school of journalism "looked at a fortnight's production""and analysed in the process 2207 UK news pieces.They focused on two things:the number of stories that were derived directly from press releases;and the number that were taken straight from the British news agency the Press Association".!They found that a massive 60 per cent of these quality-print stories consisted wholly or mainly of wire copy and/or PR material,and a further 20 per cent contained clear elements of wire copy/and or PR to which more or less other material had been added.With 8 per cent of the stories ,they were unable to be sure about their source.That left only 12 per cent of stories where the researchers could say that all the material was generated by the reporters themselves".
So only 12 per cent of what is in the papers consists of a story that a reporter has found out and pursued on his/her own initiative;and only 12 per cent of key facts are checked.
The rest is all rewritten wire copy and PR.
The most basic function of journalism,according to Davies,is"to check facts".
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