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To: LLLefty who wrote (23046)	4/1/2002 7:22:35 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

--Just one more note. I have yet to see a behind-the-scenes look at how the press covers the Middle East I heard Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe speak on this topic a few weeks ago. He said that the public does not realize that even in calm times there are 300 news bureaus in Jerusalem (now there must be a 1000). This is because, as you said, Israel is an open society, while it is very hard and risky to be a journalist in Cairo or Damascus. So Israel always has a magnifying glass on it. Furthermore, Israelis may yell at journalists but they don't threaten to kill them. This is not true of the PA. Most of the photographers on the West Bank censor themselves to get their stuff out, or they get censored; this is why we never saw pictures of the large pro-bin Laden rallies in the West Bank or Gaza last September. Many of the photographers are Arab stringers who are willing members of the team.