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Gaza calling: Twitter, blogs and the old fashioned telephone cover the crisis

Crikey / Wednesday, 14 January 2009

The Israeli military yesterday allowed a journalist to join their ranks and file a (censored) report from the Gaza Strip – the first professional media report from the area since the present conflict started on December 30, writes Eleri Harris.

Western-centric media ignores Al Jazeera

Crikey / Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Allegedly authoritative Western news outlets have been comprehensively scooped on Gaza by Al Jazeera’s English language service, writes Irfan Yusuf.

The Guantanamo journalist the world forgot

Crikey / Tuesday, 18 September 2007

Australian (and indeed other Western) journalists have shown a disgraceful degree of silence at the treatment of one Guantanamo detainee, al-Jazeera reporter and cameraman Sami al-Hajj, held at the facility since June 2002.