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To: epsteinbd who wrote (23807)	4/7/2002 9:03:04 PM
From: LLLefty	Respond to of 281500

Much of the daily coverage of the ME the since March 27--and I speak here of radio (NPR in particular) and the 24-hour TV news outlets (CNN et al)--ignores a very basic principle of ethical reporting in covering a running story can pop up suddenly in different parts of the West Bank. In brief, they are reporting rumors and, in the main, reporting virtually verbatim what sources are telling them. Inflammatory allegations such as massacre, atrocity, inhumane, killing infants and old ladies etc. are tossed around with no attempt to check reliability. The IDF, if questioned at all about this or that allegation, is often reduced to responding: we are checking into it or have nothing on it. Even after checking and responding that something never happened or that it occurred in a far different manner than described to them, the allegation is long out and repeated news cycle after cycle. A denial never catches up with the allegation and, besides, that was yesterday's news. I have yet to hear anythng resembling a correction on the air. Why doesn't the IDF allow the press more access? There are well over a 1000 pressmen/women, TV journalists dragging their producer, camera and sound crews with them (just imagine how many it takes to put Dan Rather on the air), plus anti-globalism groupies, peaceniks, hangers-on, people with press passes who will never write a story (they came to the Israel press office with a letter from the Coos Courier, weekly that they have been assigned to cover events.) Then you have the foreign media--and they must number easily in the several hundred, each one searching for a story other than what the wires are reporting to justify why they are there in the first place. It's enough to stop listening, reading and viewing and ask The Associated Press to start meselling their service. I'd have a better reading of the flow of events that digesting the material of hundreds of journalists salivating to win a Pulitzer.