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From WNN.Y.C. in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm

Brooke Ladstone. The Arab-Israeli conflict surely is one of the most covered, hardest to cover

stories of all time.

News consumers, especially in America, often believe they already know this story.

They know in each instance where wrong was committed, where justice was done.

But responsible reporters aren't supposed to bring unbreakable assumptions into the field.

So this week I'm reporting from Jerusalem to learn how local reporters on both sides of the divide cover themselves and each

other. First stop, the city of Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority. We've come to see

Wafa Abdul-Raman, whose new media organization, Philistiniat,

monitored the Palestinian media during the last election. The first problem that the journalists here

face is their own self-censorship, where they draw lines. It's deep-rewarded when it comes to the

Palestinian media. At first, those lines were drawn by

the Israeli military censors who once reviewed all their work. But after the Oslo Accords of 1993,

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