The Challenges Of Reporting The War In Gaza
1A
NPR
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The war between Israel and Hamas is no different.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called the death toll among journalists in the conflict unprecedented with at least 36 journalists killed since the war began last month.
What kind of challenges are reporters met with? How do those challenges affect the coverage you're getting as a consumer of news?
We discuss what it looks like to cover one of the most complicated conflicts.
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| 0:00.0 | You ever been there when an uncomfortable question about race comes up, but you don't know how to answer? |
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| 0:46.2 | The war between Israel and Hamas is no different, and some say these problems are even worse |
| 0:50.7 | with this conflict. |
| 0:53.2 | The Committee to Protect Journalists has called the death toll among journalists unprecedented |
| 0:57.7 | with at least 36 killed since the war began last month. |
| 1:02.0 | 31 were Palestinian. |
| 1:03.7 | Four were Israeli and one was Lebanese. |
| 1:06.6 | They include Muhammad Abu Hatab, |
| 1:08.9 | a correspondent for Palestine TV. |
| 1:11.4 | Ayalette Arnein, a news editor with the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, and |
| 1:16.0 | Mohammed Ali from Al-Shabaab radio. |
| 1:19.5 | What does it look like to cover one of the most complicated conflicts in modern history as a journalist today. |
| 1:25.4 | And what are these challenges mean for the coverage you get as a consumer of news? |
| 1:29.6 | I'm Jen White. |
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