Blogging The Casbah: Live from Bethlehem

Friday, January 30, 2009

Live from Bethlehem

As a loyal reader, listener and viewer of the only independent media network in Palestine, I was thrilled to stumble upon a link to this trailer for a new documentary about Ma'an News Agency. Check it out.

2 comments:

Abu Guerrilla said...

Yeah Danger, for sure shows life at Ma'an. I like how they say that news tends to be fractionalized by political party..........al-Maner?

Abu Danger said...

Exactly, AG. Independence is key. Even in the West Bank, the next two most popular agencies are Fatah's Wafa and Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV.

I think this quote from the editor in chief of a now-defunct Palestinian newspaper just about sums it all up:

"Our problem is that in this part of the world, they don't sue you for damaging someone, they simply shoot you."