<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"'Ellen Woodsworth' via wilpfcanada" <wilpfcanada@googlegroups.com><br><b>To: </b>"wilpfcanada" <wilpfcanada@googlegroups.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, November 7, 2023 3:43:30 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Fwd: US Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet 'All Materials' From Embedded Reporters in Gaza<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div><br><blockquote><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;color:rgba( 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 )"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif">Sid Shniad <shniad@gmail.com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;color:rgba( 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 )"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><b>US Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet 'All Materials' From Embedded Reporters in Gaza</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;color:rgba( 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 )"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif">November 7, 2023 at 2:33:55 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;color:rgba( 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 )"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif">undisclosed-recipients:;<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;color:rgba( 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 )"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'-webkit-system-font' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif">palestine-l+owners@googlegroups.com<br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/media-gaza" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.commondreams.org/news/media-gaza</a><br><br></b><b style="font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default">Common Dreams </span>Nov 06, 2023</b><br><br></font><img alt="image.png" height="165" src="cid:ii_loowmiyn0"><br><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b>CNN's Jeremy Diamond points toward Israeli military hardware in a field near Israel's </b></font><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b>border with Gaza. (Photo: CNN screen grab)<br></b><br><font size="6" style="font-weight:bold">US Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet 'All Materials' From Embedded Reporters in Gaza<br></font><br><font size="4" style="font-weight:bold">"Israel is killing the journalists that expose their crimes, then bribing the journalists that cover for them," said one critic.</font><br><br></font><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><font size="4">BRETT WILKINS</font><br></font></b><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">U.S. corporate media outlets have granted Israeli military commanders pre-publication review rights for "all materials and footage" recorded by their correspondents embedded with the Israel Defense Forces during the invasion of Gaza, a precondition condemned by press freedom advocates.<br></font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">"Journalists embedded with the IDF in Gaza operate under the observation of Israeli commanders in the field, and are not permitted to move unaccompanied within the Gaza Strip," Fareed Zakaria, host of <em>CNN</em>'s "Fareed Zakaria GPS," <a href="https://twitter.com/ArifCRafiq/status/1721258414448222677" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">explained</a> in a segment on Sunday.</font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">"As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF escort, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication," he added. "<em>CNN</em> has agreed to these terms in order to provide a limited window into Israel's operations in Gaza."</font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">In a clip featuring correspondent Raf Sanchez—who is embedded with an IDF unit tasked with finding and destroying Hamas tunnels in Gaza—<em>NBC News</em> also <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news-follows-israeli-military-unit-destroying-hamas-tunnels-in-gaza-197198917931" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">acknowledged</a> that it has "agreed to share raw footage" as "an operational security requirement."</font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Responding to Zakaria's admission, U.S. journalist Dan Cohen <a href="https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1721312082883129443" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">asserted</a> that "<em>CNN</em> is explicitly acting as a propaganda mouthpiece for the genocidal Zionist regime."<br></font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">U.S. photojournalist Zach D. Roberts <a href="https://twitter.com/zdroberts/status/1721296288413544506" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">said</a> on social media that "what <em>CNN</em> is doing here is creating ad b-roll for the IDF. It's nothing resembling news and the <em>CNN</em> employees that participated in it aren't anything resembling journalists."</font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Omar Suleiman, founder and president of the Texas-based Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, <a href="https://twitter.com/omarsuleiman504/status/1721312975657853248" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">said</a> Sunday on social media that "Israel is killing the journalists that expose their crimes, then bribing the journalists that cover for them."<br></font></p><div id="gmail-3fa00" class="gmail-rm-shortcode" style="font-size:20px"><div class="gmail-rm-embed-container gmail-rm-embed-twitter gmail-rm-loaded gmail-rm-off" style="max-width:550px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-rm-embed-holder" style="height:100%;width:100%"><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="max-width:550px;width:550px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div></div></div></div><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Israel <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israel-and-palestine-ifj-calls-unesco-protect-journalists" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">does not allow </a>foreign journalists into Gaza unless they're embedded with IDF units under the aforementioned preconditions, placing almost all of the responsibility—and danger—of reporting on Palestinian correspondents.<br></font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">As <em>Common Dreams </em><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/journalists-killed-in-gaza" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">reported</a> Friday, at least 31 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since Israel began bombarding the densely populated strip in response to the October 7 Hamas-led attacks that left more than 1,400 Israelis and others dead in southern Israel, with another 240 or so people taken hostage.<br></font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">One Lebanese journalist was also killed in Gaza, while four Israeli media professionals were slain during the Hamas attacks.<br></font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><a href="https://cpj.org/2023/11/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">According to</a> the Committee to Protect Journalists, the past month has been the deadliest four-week period for media professionals since the U.S.-based group started keeping records in 1992. CPJ has also <a href="https://cpj.org/2023/11/attacks-arrests-threats-censorship-the-high-risks-of-reporting-the-israel-hamas-war/" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">documented</a> at least eight injuries, three missing people, eight arrests, and "multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members."</font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Suleiman said that the world can "expect more coverage humanizing IDF soldiers while they murder thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians in cold blood."<br></font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">The Palestinian Ministry of Health <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/aid-leaders-cease-fire" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">said</a> Monday that Israeli forces have killed at least 10,022 people in Gaza, including 2,550 women and more than 4,100 children, while wounding over 25,000 others.<br></font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">During the eight-year U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, embedded journalists were used by American officials in an attempt to control the war's public narrative. Research has <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ctx.2008.7.2.32" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">shown</a> that embedding "channeled reporters toward producing war coverage from the soldier's point of view," while minimizing civilian casualties and other negative consequences.</font></p><div id="gmail-cad13" class="gmail-rm-shortcode" style="font-size:20px"><div class="gmail-rm-embed-container gmail-rm-embed-twitter gmail-rm-loaded gmail-rm-off" style="max-width:550px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-rm-embed-holder" style="height:100%;width:100%"><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="max-width:550px;width:550px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div></div></div></div><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">U.S. and other Western mainstream media have long been accused of one-sided coverage in favor of Israel. During the current war, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and other media monitors have <a href="https://fair.org/home/unconfirmed-beheaded-babies-report-helped-justify-israeli-slaughter/" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">noted</a> how numerous outlets have broadcast unverified Israeli and U.S. claims of babies beheaded by Hamas, of Gaza-based militants <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielCohenTV/status/1717992932123271172" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">operating</a> from beneath hospitals, of Hamas <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6339680350112" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">using human shields</a>, and other unsubstantiated reports.<br></font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Lara Witt and Tina Vásquez of <em>Prism Reports</em> recently <a href="https://prismreports.org/2023/10/26/us-media-genocide-in-gaza/" style="color:rgb( 0 , 93 , 199 )" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">wrote</a> that the U.S. media "is evading its responsibility to acknowledge the Gaza genocide."</font></p><p style="font-size:20px"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">"The American media is failing," they wrote. "Through journalistic sleight of hand—including the use of passive language, ever-shifting headlines, bothsidesism, and the myth of objectivity—reporters across the U.S. are fueling the genocide their newsrooms are refusing to acknowledge is taking place," Witt and Vásquez added.</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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