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When Mideast Journalists are Forced to Keep the News to Themselves

When you intimidate journalists enough, Big Media will learn to suppress the news on their own. As we learned from CNN’s Eason Jordan, “access” is more important than “honesty.” But access to what?

Pesach Benson
May 1, 2011
12:00 am

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When you intimidate journalists enough, Big Media will learn to suppress the news on their own.

As we learned from CNN’s Eason Jordan, “access” is more important than “honesty.” But access to what?

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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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