From: The Listening Post
Fire, violence and exultant inhabitants– the profession of the West Bank gets darker. Plus, journalism remains in crisis in Pakistan.
2 months in to the most reactionary federal government in Israel’s history, Palestinians are seeing their rights vaporize while the media– both Israeli and global– underplay the Palestinian predicament.
Factors:
Sarit Michaeli– International advocacy officer, B’Tselem
Issa Amro– Hebron-based Palestinian activist
Ziv Stahl– Executive director, Yesh Din; factor, +974 publication
Khaled Elgindy– Palestinian-Israeli affairs program, Middle East Institute; author, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump
On our radar:
Almost a month after the earthquake that eliminated more than 50,000 individuals throughout Turkey and Syria, the clampdown advances crucial reporting and anything else the Turkish federal government considers troublesome. Manufacturer Meenakshi Ravi reports on how substantial the crackdown has actually been.
Pakistani journalism in crisis
The Pakistani federal government is dealing with difficulty on numerous fronts– political, financial, and on security. For the nation’s media, things have actually pertained to a state where the rewards not to do the journalistic task are frequently higher than the incentives to really do it.
Factors:
Farzana Ali– Peshawar bureau chief, Aaj television
Amber Shamsi– Director, The Centre for Excellence in Journalism