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Media ghettoisation
It has been said that we live in a global village. But according to Dutch reporter Joris Luyendijk, the village has also been ghettoised. Each ghetto has its own media that confirm and consolidate the ghetto's own view of itself as the 'good guy'.
Once they realise how many different ways the events of 24 hours can be construed in the Middle East, journalists must stop pretending that their coverage is objective. Then we should develop new narrative techniques that better reflect the various ways in which the Middle East is interpreted. The next step should be to present the criteria we have chosen to base our particular version on.
Joris Luyendijk has studied and written about the Middle East media picture as a correspondent in Cairo, Beirut and East Jerusalem, among other places. His first book was 'A good man sometimes hits his wife'. His new book 'Almost Human' is a razor-sharp analysis of Western media – and not least of their Middle East coverage.
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