What is the role of the media in portraying what’s happening in Palestine?
Can its role be “neutral”? Definitely not.
I invite you to notice three categories of this role:
- silence,
- information that is incomplete,
- and – the worst one – indirectly blaming the Palestinians for their own occupation.
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