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CNN Breathless Over Tunisian Tear Gas

You’ll never see a video like this come from the West Bank. A CNN film crew was caught up in some Tunisian tear gas. At around the 3:00 minute mark, photographer Mary Rogers poo-poos concern…

Pesach Benson
January 19, 2011
12:00 am

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You’ll never see a video like this come from the West Bank.

A CNN film crew was caught up in some Tunisian tear gas. At around the 3:00 minute mark, photographer Mary Rogers poo-poos concern for her health, and even comments with a wry smile:

[The police] were sorry I was gassed, but hey, it’s part of our job, uh, on occasion. These guys, the Tunisians, have some nasty stuff.

Can you imagine Western journos covering Bilin security fence protests breathlessly gushing for the IDF? Why is the world only uptight about tear gas when Israel is involved?

Nobody — and I mean nobody — dies from tear gas.

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Tags: Bil'in, CNN, IDF, security barrier, Tunisia

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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