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  1. Agreement on terms
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
  2. America's last taboo
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
  3. ANHRI releases annual report on freedom of expression in the Arab world in 2011
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    ANHRI has released its annual report for 2011, under the title Freedom of Expression in the Arab World.
  4. Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The U.S. government and the mainstream media have rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
  5. Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship
    A Little Justice for Al Manar TV

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Australia rejects politically motivated censorship attempts.
  6. Cartoon Politics: Rupert Murdoch, The Pro-Israel Lobby And Israel’s Crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
  7. Chomsky, Pilger and Loach call on BBC to reflect reality of Gaza's occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Ken Loach are among 45,000 signatories who have signed an open letter to the BBC calling on its journalists to reflect the reality of Gaza’s occupation while reporting on Israel’s current assault.
  8. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  9. Constructing Consensus - The 'Victims-And-Aggressor Meme'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  10. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
  11. 'Disgustingly Biased' - The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering.
  12. Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
  13. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
  14. 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has been embarked on a massive propaganda campaign they call “flooding the zone.” We hope to provide the most direct and systematic refutation of the Administration’s case for war in Syria.
  15. Gaza and the Press
    Dress the Gaza Situation Up All You Like, But the Truth Hurts

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The latest bloodbath in Gaza, which is being so graphically covered by journalists that our masters and our media are suffering a new experience: not fear of being called anti-Semitic, but fear of their own television viewers and readers – ordinary folk so outraged by the war crimes committed against the women and children of Gaza that they are demanding to know why, even now, television moguls and politicians are refusing to treat their own people like moral, decent, intelligent human beings.
  16. Gaza headline absurdly inaccurate
    Re: Palestinians flee Gaza as ceasefire pleas fail

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Targeting civilians is always wrong. We speak out against Hamas when it does so, but our Canadian government applauds the Israeli government when it does so on a much greater scale. As human beings, as Canadians, as a Palestinian and Jew, we condemn this horrific collective punishment.
  17. The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism, & The Gulf War
    Resource Type: Book
    The Gulf Within documents the experiences of Arab and Muslim Canadians during the Gulf War. It's about the subtle and not-so-subtle anger and distrust other Canadians and institutions demonstrated towards these groups.
  18. How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The mainstream U.S. media now reports as "flat-fact" the Syrian government's guilt in the April 4, 2017 chemical weapons incident, but the real facts are less clear and some point in the opposite direction.
  19. How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
  20. Hypocrisy Reigns
    Don't Forsake the Struggle

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
  21. Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    ‘How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
  22. IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle East
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Launching its â##Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of media laws in the Middle East.
  23. IFJ Puts Ethical Journalism on Middle East Media Agenda
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched a programme of work to strengthen ethical and independent journalism in the Middle East with the opening of a regional office in Bahrain.
  24. IFJ to Hold Regional Meeting in Morocco over Media Reforms in Arab World and Middle East
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is organising in Casablanca, Morocco, from 12 to 14 April a regional meeting to discuss an agenda for media reforms in the Arab World and the Middle East in the wake of recent protests for political c
  25. The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that "Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S." Fox's claim of an imaginary enemy alliance relies on two sources: the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and an anonymous U.S. official.
  26. In Run-Up to Vote to End Yemen War, MSNBC Remains Totally Silent
    MSNBC outflanked from the left by Breitbart

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Johnson expresses concern about the lack of MSNBC coverage of the role of the USA in the conflict in Yemen since 2015.
  27. In Syria, Western Media Cheer Al-Qaeda
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Khalek criticizes Western media for their failure to report on attacks in Syria because to do so would highlight how the West has been responsible for prolonging Al-Qaeda's bloodshed.
  28. Independent Jewish Voices
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
    Jews in Canada who share a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights and who promote the expression of alternative Jewish voices, particularly in respect of the grave situation in the Middle East, which threatens the future of both Israelis and Palestinians as well as the stability of the whole region.
  29. Invisible War Crimes - The Corporate Media On Yemen
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Anyone struggling to understand the violent upheaval in Yemen this year might be tempted to consult the country's 'most important source of news' -- the BBC.
  30. Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests.
  31. Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
  32. Is Assad to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    What possible motives that could link the Assad regime to a chemical attack in Northern Syria?
  33. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  34. Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine. If you use common usage, you will run into confusions, paradoxes, and hostile responses from pro-Israel people. Please follow these guidelines and you will have no problems with editors, politicians, or organized pro-Israel groups. For each phrase, this guide will present first (a) the common usage, and then (b) the specific Israel/Palestine usage that you must use in order to write for major US (and UK and Canadian of course) media (NYT, Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, etc.)
  35. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  36. Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in December and January.
  37. Israeli Deaths Matter More
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The reality is that by devoting disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths over Palestinian deaths, the BBC's claims to 'impartial' reporting are simply demolished. With great consistency, lives in the 'Third World' are presented as being of far less importance than those who are 'like us'.
  38. Journalism and 'the words of power'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
  39. Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
  40. Lapdog media learns nothing, beats war drums again
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Have we forgotten Judith Miller already? Or Colin Powell at the U.N.? Before attacking Syria, let's know the truth.
  41. Launch of Middle East Gender Study Marks International Women's Day
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Women journalists representing 15 journalists# unions of the International Federation of Journalists from across the Arab World and Middle East gathered in Al Manama-Bahrain to mark International Women#s Day.
  42. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
  43. A Letter to CBC: Your Biased Coverage of the Land Day Massacre
    The following letter was sent yesterday to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation regarding their biased coverage of the Land Day massacre

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, Hanna Kawas, presents a letter to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, alleging editorial interference by pro-Israel lobbying group 'Honest Reporting Canada' in their coverage of the land day killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli government forces.
  44. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  45. The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common.
  46. Media involved in several incidents since start of Israeli offensive against Gaza Strip
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Reporters Without Borders is concerned about several incidents affecting the news media since Israel began its air strikes on the Gaza Strip on 27 December, including the bombing of the headquarters of the Hamas TV station Al-Aqsa TV, as well as Isra
  47. Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
  48. Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
  49. The Most Enduring Media Cover Up
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, a website that provides factual information about the Israeli State and Palestine.
  50. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
  51. The Newsfakers
    Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    YouTube and blogs have made it easier than ever to fabricate events. The media are happy to run unsubstantiated reports and footage.
  52. Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsky discusses the media coverage of these two major issues, highlighting US tensions with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as well as discussing the recent US airstrike on Syria's Air Force base.
  53. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
  54. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
    Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
  55. Painting a false picture
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
  56. Palestine Media Watch
    Resource Type: Website
    PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
  57. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
  58. Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
  59. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  60. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  61. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
  62. The Right Kind Of Terror
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies.
  63. Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real Ones
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington's vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate.
  64. Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home.” They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israel’s use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state’s unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that’s befogged Western liberals’ eyes for 70 years.
  65. Safety and Justice: Protecting Journalists in the Middle East and the Arab World
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Declaration adopted by the regional conference entitled " Safety and Justice: Protecting Journalists in the Middle East and the Arab World" held in Cairo , Egypt from 4 to 5 April.
  66. Selective Outrage - Iran And Libya
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  67. Seriously Free Speech Committee
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  68. Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda – What Is There to Celebrate?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    As media experts plan to establish an 'Arab Media Day', Baroud criticizes in seven points the censorship and repression of Arab journalism and media.
  69. Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
    How One-Sided Reporting is Facilitating Escalation

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.
  70. Some Deaths Really Matter
    The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
  71. Some deaths really matter - The disproportionate coverage of Israeli and Palestinian Killings
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Documening that the deaths of Israelis is far more heavily weighted than those of Palestinian deaths, garnering more media coverage.
  72. Sources.com
    Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers

    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
    Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
    Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
  73. Sources welcomes Independent Jewish Voices
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: Independent Jewish Voices. ndependent Jewish Voices represents Jews in Canada from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights.
  74. Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
  75. Telling It
    Women and Language Across Cutures

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  76. Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
  77. UN 'Travesty': Resolutions Of Mass Destruction - Part 1
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Far from bringing an end to the violence, UN Resolution 1973 unleashed overwhelming Western force in pursuit of regime change, in a war that was fought to the bitter end. To ensure the right outcome, Western and other powers supplied special forces and weapons, simply ignoring the resolution's call for 'strict implementation of the arms embargo' and 'excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory'. In short, the resolution resulted in a massive escalation in violence.
  78. US Isn't Leaving Syria -- but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The US military exists to fight wars. It is the most heavily armed, most violent organization in the world. Saying that it should continue to occupy Syria, and most of the mainstream media do, is a way of saying that the war in that country should continue. In fact, it’s a call for escalation of that war.
  79. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
  80. Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
    All the News That's Fit to Slant

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
  81. When BBC Calls, Don’t Answer..
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In any event, my advice to the media savvy, is that if you have caller ID, and you can tell that it is BBC calling, don’t bother answering. I hope I have the good sense to follow my own advice should the phone ever ring again!
  82. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.

Experts on Media Coverage/Middle East in the Sources Directory

  1. Electronic Intifada
  2. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights


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