Dutch Reporters Abandon Ship Over Flotilla’s Own Press Restrictions
June 28, 2011 20:39 by Pesach BensonDisgusted by flotillista media restrictions, naivete, and deceit, Eric Beauchemin of Radio Netherlands (and two other Dutch journalists) abandoned ship rather than sail to Gaza.
But I have worked as a journalist for the past 25 years, and never have I experienced such a closed organisation . . .
Yesterday morning I had a final meeting with the participants. I told the activists that given everything that had happened, they shouldn’t trust the organisation leading this mission.
This is eye-opening. Read the whole thing.
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[...] Readers deserve to know the context that reporters work in. That’s a necessary degree of transparency which helps readers judge what’s happening in the world. An extreme case in point: Dutch reporters bailing out of a Gaza flotilla over untenable restrictions. [...]
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