Where’s Reuters On Its Own Photographer’s Brutal Beating?
July 2, 2012 13:16 by Pesach BensonA Ramallah protest got ugly yesterday when PA police started cracking skulls — including reporters. Maan News reports that several reporters were beaten up, had their cameras confiscated or destroyed, and that two journalists were even taken into custody.
Electronic Intifada wasn’t spared either. The PA Interior Ministry ordered an inquiry while outrage was all over Twitter.
One of the journalists beaten was Saed Hawari, a Reuters cameraman. Although the Washington Post picked up on the story, it’s strange that I haven’t seen Reuters mention the attack on their own photographer. Unless I missed something, the radio silence is a tremendous disservice — both to readers, and to Reuters itself.
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.
And the wire service’s Palestinian staff needs to know Reuters has their back covered. Push came to shove (literally) and stringers got radio silence. How will the news agency’s Palestinian staff look forward to the next protest?
The quiet doesn’t square with Big Media’s vociferous protests when we’re talking about Israeli measures.
The foreign press corps, for example, speaks out against press restrictions on Gaza and rightfully raises a hue and cry over unnecessary strip searches. And Reuters wasn’t shy to blame Israel when cameraman Fadel Shana filmed his own death.
Israel’s the only place in the Mideast where reporters can criticize the government and still renew their media credentials like nothing happened.
Is Reuters that cowed by the PA?
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Reb Mordechai
9:12 am
Jul 03, 2012
As interesting as it is that Reutors does not report the beatings of its own reporters, I was more amused by the creative writing in Electronic Intifada from the link you so kindly supplied. Yes, you are quie right, they do indeed report that Palestinian Police beat these reporters up but then go on to explain that, of course everyone knows that the PA Police are in fact supervised by the CIA and the IDF and prop up “the occupation”! As proof the writer quotes a NY Times article which reports that Abbas begged Israel for guns. So, according to Electronic Intifada, The PA are working for Israel and only Chamas can guarentee Palestinian human rights. Do they actually believe what they write?
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