At Solomonia, Prof. Richard Landes of Boston University describes his new web project — ’21st Century Media Group’:
We hope to be a media oversight venue for discussing how the media processes the information they gather and how they present it to the public as news. We’ll take significant news events and present them as dossiers to the public for discussion, using for grist as much primary source material as possible, starting with the Pallywood discussion.
What is ‘Pallywood’?
It’s a play on the expression Bollywood, the designation of India’s film industry, based in Bombay. It identifies a practice among Palestinian journalists to turn staged drama into news. This fictional news industry then feeds Western news reporting, who don’t seem to suspect they’re being duped… We’ll post the raw footage from Palestinian cameramen working for major Western news agencies at Netzarim Junction on Sept. 30, 2000 and possibly the next day. The visitor can view these videos for themselves and start to form their own impressions, then they can hop in and start reading our analysis and participating in the ongoing discussion. They’ll have the chance to form their own impressions first. It’ll be like having a look behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.
Read the full interview here.
(Hat tip: Soccerdad)
