Former AP correspondent says source close to IDF suggests "there were indeed Hamas offices" in Gaza building that housed AP.
“Any press organization operating in a dictatorship is going to be compromised, and will further compromise itself to conceal how it has been compromised.“
“Any press organization operating in a dictatorship is going to be compromised, and will further compromise itself to conceal how it has been compromised.“
https://twitter.com/MattiFriedman/status/1393884508261322755
From his 2014 @TheAtlantic article: “Hamas understood that journalists would not only accept as fact the Hamas-reported civilian death toll—relayed through the UN or through something called the “Gaza Health Ministry,” an office controlled by Hamas—but would make those numbers...
"...the center of coverage. Hamas understood that reporters could be intimidated when necessary and that they would not report the intimidation; Western news organizations tend to see no ethical imperative to inform readers of the restrictions shaping their coverage in repressive
"states or other dangerous areas. In the war’s aftermath, the NGO-UN-media alliance could be depended upon to unleash the organs of the international community on Israel, and to leave the jihadist group alone."
By former @AP correspondent @MattiFriedman:
theatlantic.com/international/…
By former @AP correspondent @MattiFriedman:
theatlantic.com/international/…
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