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Ramlah
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^yh i saw on the news last night that Israel was bombing i think it were farms or something and also they were blocking off journalists from entering...
i guess they know they're in the wrong and don't wanna show their crimes off innit :D
They know it full well. They've been censoring media outlets for years. The CBC made a big fuss over it and showed some footage that the Israelis forbade them from showing, but usually it's not even mentioned. Perhaps CNN will mention it in fleeting.
Speaking of media where's MSNBC? I thought they were supposed to be the "liberal fox" yet I haven’t seen any great coverage from them on this. I’m not asking them to be advocates for the Palestinian, just some balance in coverage would be nice. If my Russian were a bit better I could just listen to Э́хо Москвы́ but it's not sophisticated enough to keep up with this. There just really are very few good, solid journalistic outlets in the US and the TV news is just a disgrace. At least there are a few good print news outlets like The Nation, The New Yorker etc.
There are also a few good Israeli human rights groups that do good reporting, but most of that is after action analysis.