Monday, November 06, 2006
The failure of journalism
In a seminar at the local visual culture museum, the honour of international media in relation to reparting on international terrorism and the Middle-East was torn to pieces by the speakers Loretta Napoleoni, Dahr Jamail and Hana Al-Bayaty.
Journalists are not doing their job, not asking the right questions said the Italian economist/writer Loretta Napoleoni. She is on the other hand famous for doing just that. For example, how can terrorist organisations fund their expensive activities? And how does this affect their morals and politics? She has reported on this in books like Modern Jihad and several others.
Dahr Jamail, who is an american journalist was shocked to find how biased the reporting on Iraq by all main American media was, not least by the intelligent strategy of the military's use of "embedded journalists". He has since treaded the dangerous path as independent journalist in Iraq. So has Al-Bayaty, from France/Egypt, by shooting film for example in Fallujah.
Visit the exhibition Contemporary Arab Representations: The Iraqi Equation, at Bildmuseet, Umeå!
// posted by The beaver @ 10:37 PM 
