When Journalists Go Along with Hamas

The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Author and journalist Matti Friedman was working for the Associated Press when he noticed a persistent bias in coverage: For the Western media, the story of the region was a simple narrative of good and evil, and Israel was cast as villain. Matti joins Jamie to discuss how this narrative formed and whether there's hope for serious journalism in such a conflict. Show Notes: -An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth -What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel -You're All Israel Now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0	Subject of availability while stocks faster. Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. This is Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is
0:56.6	Matty Friedman. He is an author in journalist, most recently of a celebrated book called
1:04.0	Cool by Fire, Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.
1:08.0	You can see his bylines in the New York Times and in tablet magazine,
1:12.0	but he is perhaps best known for his 2014 piece in
1:16.6	tablet magazine called an insider's guide to the most important story on Earth.
1:21.4	It is his tale of his time at the AP where he was a reporter in Israel,
1:27.6	reporting on the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And what he tells in that piece and what he tells on this podcast is what I
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