[Peace-discuss] Jonathan Cook on WILL AM 580

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

> From: Harriet Williamson <hwillmsn at ad.uiuc.edu>
> Date: March 28, 2007 4:21:09 PM CDT
> To: Jan & Durl Kruse <jandurl at insightbb.com>
> Subject: RE: Jonathan Cook
>
>
> Dear Jan & Durl Kruse:
>  
> I wanted to let you know that host David Inge has decided to have 
> Jonathan Cook on WILL radio’s Focus580. The date is May 2 at 11:06 AM.
>  
> Thank you very much for your concern.
>  
> Cordially, Harriet Williamson
>  
>
> From: Jan & Durl Kruse [mailto:jandurl at insightbb.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 4:09 PM
> To: dinge at uiuc.edu
> Cc: hwillmsn at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Jonathan Cook
>  
>> As a contributor and listener to WILL radio I would appreciate the 
>> opportunity to hear from reporter Jonathan Cook. Please review his 
>> information below and consider an interview with an independent media 
>> voice! JAN Kruse
>>  
>> RE: JONATHAN COOK
>>  
>> I have chosen to position myself in the region in two ways - one 
>> professional, the other geographical - that distinguish me from 
>> colleagues. This approach gives me greater freedom to reflect on the 
>> true nature of the conflict and provides me with fresh insight into 
>> its root causes.
>>  
>> Professionally, I am one of the few journalists regularly writing 
>> about the region who work as an independent freelancer. I choose the 
>> issues I wish to cover, so I am not constrained by the ‘treadmill’ of 
>> the mainstream media, which require an endless flow of instant copy 
>> and analysis. I am also not tied to the mainstream agenda, which 
>> gives disproportionate coverage to the concerns of the powerful, in 
>> this case the Israeli and American positions - in the US media to a 
>> degree that makes much of their Israel/Palestine reporting 
>> implausible. I also rarely accept commissions, restricting myself to 
>> topics that I consider to be the most revealing about the conflict.
>>  
>> Geographically, I am the first foreign correspondent to be based in 
>> the Israeli Arab city of Nazareth, in the Galilee. Most reporters 
>> covering the conflict live in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, with a handful 
>> of specialists based in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The range of 
>> stories readily available to reporters in these locations reinforces 
>> the assumption among editors back home that the conflict can only be 
>> understood in terms of the events that followed the West Bank and 
>> Gaza’s occupation in 1967. This has encouraged the media to give far 
>> too much weight to Israeli concerns about ‘security’ -  a catch-all 
>> that offers Israel special dispensation to ignore its duties to the 
>> Palestinians under international law.
>>  
>> Many topics central to the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians, 
>> including the plight of the refugees and the continuing dispossession 
>> of Palestinians living as Israeli citizens, do not register on most 
>> reporters’ radars.
>  
>
JAN Kruse
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