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From WN.N.C. in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Throughout the war in Iraq, debate has raged over our government's

real reason for invading that country. But when it comes to Israel's campaign in Lebanon, the

controversy has been about tactics. Few would dispute what it is Israel is trying to do, secure its

borders by wiping out Hezbollah once and for all. Israeli officials invoked that

goal again last week when their warplanes took out two TV towers containing transmitters for the

popular Lebanese stations LBC and Future TV. The Israelis said they also contained relay stations

for the Hezbollah station Al-Mannar, as well as critical infrastructure

for cell phone communications by the guerrillas. It's hardly the first time media have been caught up

in the fighting, but this marks a new phase, says Lawrence Pintack, director of the Adams Center

for Electronic Journalism at the American University in Cairo. Pintac was a Middle East

correspondent for CBS back in the 80s and sees what he calls a new weaponization of media,

that is, media used both as a target and as a weapon. What has changed in recent years, and this

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