Today's European edition of the International Herald Tribune, published by the New York Times, is a stark display of bias, absolving Palestinians of any role as perpetrators in the conflict while placing Palestinian grievances against Israel under a microscope. The "global edition of the New York Times," today's paper runs two stories about alleged Israeli wrongdoings, including the most prominent front-page story, a lengthy article on Israeli actions in the West Bank village of Awarta, as well as an inside article on Israeli plans for construction beyond the 1949 armistice line (Green Line). At the same time, the Tribune fails to give even passing mention to two major news stories which broke yesterday, both of which involve alleged Palestinian wrongdoing -- the murder of Israeli film director and activist in Jenin and the indictment of a Gaza engineer for his alleged role in rocket development.
more via camera.org
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his sons are said to have bankrolled dozens of Arab journalists in return for turning a blind eye to what the Libyan regime was doing to its people. The list of beneficiaries included newspaper editors, reporters and columnists from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, the Gulf and the Palestinian territories.
Senior Arab journalists living in London and Paris also said to have been on the Libyan regime's payroll.
Gaddafi and his sons are not the only ones who have been bribing journalists in the Arab world. The regime of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and several oil-rich Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia have for decades offered bribes to Arab journalists.
This explains why many Arab journalists have refrained from reporting anything that reflected negatively on their paymasters.
Instead of reporting on the grievances of Arabs living under dictatorships, these journalists often engaged in heaping praise on Arab regimes and criticizing only one country: Israel.
via hudson-ny.org
