BlueStarPR, the marketing firm responsible for the Orwellian pro-billboard signs in places like San Francisco, has one poster in particular that comes to mind today.
In the BlueStarPR world, there is freedom for the press in Israel.
In the real world, the Israeli government has imposed a media blackout forbidding Israeli media from covering the attacks on Palestine, and foreign press from entering Gaza.
Media blackout continues; no foreign journalists let into Gaza
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You got spoiled by the embedded journalists in Iraq, didn’t you? Admit it!
In reality, there is no expectation of “Freedom of the Press” in a war zone. That is a civil right, and war zones are governed my martial law, by definition.
Posted by programmer craig | January 11, 2009, 12:16 amThe International Federation of Journalists have condemned the Israeli attacks against press workers in the Gaza strip.
http://gaza-peace-n-freedom.blogspot.com/2009/01/international-federation-of-journalists.html
Posted by as-Salam wa al-Hurriya | January 11, 2009, 3:30 amApparently Craig doesn’t realize that the “embedded journalists” in Iraq weren’t even journalists, just jokes and laughing stocks of propaganda. The only real English-speaking journalists in Iraq were brave men like Nir Rosen and Anthony Shadid who got out on the ground and consistently exposed US war crimes (including the copying of Israel’s barbarous tactics). And then there are the thousands of brave Iraqi and Arab journalists, many of whom were murdered by US forces in cold blood and never punished, and whose names are never known by the white man.
Posted by Jamal | January 11, 2009, 9:00 amProgrammer Craig, there’s not free press into Palestine during times of peace either and you know it.
Posted by Jillian | January 11, 2009, 10:49 am“”Apparently Craig doesn’t realize that the “embedded journalists” in Iraq weren’t even journalists, just jokes and laughing stocks of propaganda.”"
Spoken like somebody who didn’t delve into the coverage very much.
Also, access to war zones is an entirely separate issue from the freedom to publish.
But let me guess, in your mind, Freedom House’s rankings are just some Western-Zionist-Colonialist-Imperialist plot to further the Othering of indigenous peoples and their dignified resistance?
Posted by Joe | January 11, 2009, 1:44 pmOr maybe you’re just unhappy with Freedom House because they expose anti-semitism like this:
http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/ArabicExcerpts.pdf
Posted by Joe | January 11, 2009, 6:50 pm