US media want to keep Palestine boring
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain offer an intriguing insight into
how behind the scenes the US media seek to prevent us from engaging
with the debate about Israel and Palestine. Their article concerns an email exchange between Hooman Bakhtiar, a Voice of America producer, and Josh Block, one of Israel’s many spin-doctors in the US.
Bakhtiar’s
programme had booked Rula Jebreal, a journalist of Palestinian origin,
born in Israel, who is known for her forthright and independent views.
In fact, in 2014 she was so forthright that – irony of ironies! – she
managed to get her contract with MSNBC cancelled for criticising on-air the channel’s failure to include Palestinian voices in its Israel-Palestine coverage.
