Saturday, February 14, 2009

An Examination of Palestinian Journalism: Pallywood



This video suggests that Palestinian journalists stage scenes of Israeli-Palestinian violent conflicts to advance their political ideologies. Interesting, but some of the examination of the videos seems less than 100% convincing.

Youtube description- “The term "Pallywood" refers to the staging of scenes by Palestinian journalists in order to present the Palestinians as hapless victims of Israeli aggression. They are able to succeed in this endeavor in large part due to the credulity and eagerness of the Western press to present these images, which reinforce the image of the Palestinian David struggling valiantly against the overpowering Israeli Goliath. Pallywood has led to astonishing lapses in Western journalistic standards in which badly staged scenes regularly appear on the news as "real events."
For those interested in an in-depth look into how propaganda is really produced and created, this is a must see.”

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