[Peace-discuss] Egypt Blocks Americans from Gaza March, Stops Aid Convoy

[Robert Naiman]

Well, one way to test this proposition would be to compare the US
reporting on protests in say, Iran, to coverage of protests
elsewhere...

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Ed Mandel <crazyhawk22 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think the American media blackout of this story is not necessarily due to
> any purposeful censorship. It might be due to the American media's cutback
> of foreign reporting staff over the years from budget cuts leaving noone
> available to cover that story. I'm not certain how the majority of Americans
> are getting their foreign news report--either accidently looking at a BBC
> website,drudgereport or using their powers of telepathy. --ED
>
> *****************************************
>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:26:54 +0200
>> From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com
>> To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Egypt Blocks Americans from Gaza March, Stops Aid
>> Convoy
>>
>> [Note that the contact info is given here for NYT, WaPo, NPR...]
>>
>> Cairo - The government of Egypt is taking a spectacularly hard line
>> against international solidarity efforts in support of civilians in
>> Gaza on the one-year anniversary of the Israeli invasion, blocking
>> peace marchers from the U.S., Canada, and Europe from even approaching
>> the Egyptian border with Gaza and blocking an aid convoy that has the
>> support of the Turkish government from entering Egypt at Nuweiba.
>> [...]
>> Meanwhile there is largely a U.S. press blackout of these striking
>> developments. A search of the New York Times and the Washington Post
>> only turns up a tiny AP story on the websites of the Times and the
>> Post.
>>
>> As has frequently been the case, Agence France-Presse [AFP] pays more
>> attention to these developments. On Monday, AFP reports that Hedy
>> Epstein and other members of the Gaza Freedom March have begun a
>> hunger strike to press the Egyptian government to allow them to enter
>> Gaza...
>>
>>
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/egypt-blocks-americans-fr_b_404959.html
>>
>> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/28/115052/52
>>
>> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/441
>>
>> --
>> Robert Naiman
>> Just Foreign Policy
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>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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