Gaza Update 7
Dec. 30, 2008Palestinian Media Watch
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PA daily: Media are manipulating Gaza news
Cameraman to mourning mother:
"Hit your face, cry, do some action"

A Palestinian journalist has complained that the media and others are
manipulating the images going out to the world:

"A mother of one of the martyrs stood by the door of the intensive care unit
while crying... relatives and those around her were telling her what she
should say to the television cameras: 'Say your son [before he died] prayed
and went out.' Another tells her: 'Curse the Arab leaders'... The
journalists [in the hospitals] are going overboard in their insensitivity
and taking advantage of the [difficult] moments, with the explanation that
they are showing this to the world. One cameraman told a mourning mother:
'Hit your face, cry, do some action.'"
[Al-Ayyam, December 29, 2008]