People Like Us : Misrepresenting the Middle East
In People Like Us, which became a bestseller in Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five years as a correspondent in the Middle East. Extremely young for a correspondent but fluent in Arabic, he spoke with stone throwers and terrorists, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Berkeley : Soft Skull Press,
2009
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| Schlagworte: | Foreign correspondents -- Middle East -- Biography Luyendijk, Joris, -- 1971- -- Travel -- Middle East Mass media -- Political aspects -- Western countries Middle East -- In mass media Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979- Middle East -- Social conditions Reporters and reporting -- Netherlands -- Biography Mass media Foreign correspondents Reporters and reporting |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | In People Like Us, which became a bestseller in Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five years as a correspondent in the Middle East. Extremely young for a correspondent but fluent in Arabic, he spoke with stone throwers and terrorists, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors, and all of their families. He chronicles first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation, terror, and war. His stories cast light on a number of major crises, from the Iraq War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along with less-reported issues such as underage orphan trash-collectors in Cairo. The more he witnessed, the less he understood, and he became increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he saw on the ground and what was later reported in the media. As a correspondent, he was privy to a multitude of narratives with conflicting implications, and he saw over and over again that the media favored the stories that would be sure to confirm the popularly held, oversimplified beliefs of westerners. In People Like Us, Luyendijk deploys powerful examples, leavened with humor, to demonstrate the ways in which the media gives us a filtered, altered, and manipulated image of reality in the Middle East Prologue: Hello, Everybody! 1 -- Part I1. Journalism for Beginners 11 -- 2. No News 29 -- 3. Donor Darlings and a Hitler Cocktail 45 -- 4. Hamiha Haramiha 63 -- 5. All the News Thatâs Fit to Print 79 -- 6. September 11 and the Blank Spots in the Dictatorship 95 -- Part II 7. A New World 115 -- 8. The Law of the Scissors 125 -- 9. âThey Are Killing Innocent Jewsâ 139 -- 10. A Bloody Occupation 163 -- 11. The Middlemanâs Dilemma 183 -- 12. Absurd and Bizarre 193 -- Part III 13. New Puppets, Old Strings 209 -- 14. âThereâs Money in the Flagâ 221 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781593763541 1593763549 9781593762568 1593762569 |