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Richard Landes at Pajamas Media explores the fabrications of "Islamic media men":
In the summer of 2006, Reuters News Agency, humiliated when bloggers caught them duped by obvious photographic manipulation, fired both the photographer and the chief of their photographic bureau. They then removed all the photographer’s photos from their news archive. In so doing, they acted decisively in punishing two of the cardinal sins of modern journalism: “creating evidence” and getting duped by created evidence.These principles – i.e., the ethics of a free press – go so deep, that Westerners apparently have difficulty imagining that others might not share our commitments. Thus few people believe claims that footage of Muhammad al Dura, the twelve year old boy allegedly gunned down by Israelis at Netzarim Junction on September 30, 2000, was staged. Charles Enderlin, the correspondent for France2 who presented the tale to the world, derisively and successfully dismisses such claims as a conspiracy theory as ludicrous as those about 9-11. How absurd: Palestinian journalists would not do such a thing; and if they did, the Western media would catch it. To this day, most journalists still ask, “Who killed al Dura?” not, “Was he killed in the footage we see?”
The last time we see al Dura on Talal’s camera: He holds his hand over his eyes not his allegedly deadly stomach wound. He lifts his up his arm and looks around. Enderlin had already declared him dead in an earlier scene, and (therefore?) cut this scene from his broadcast.
And yet, one of the major differences between Western journalism and self-styled “Islamic media men” emerges on just this issue of the permissibility of staging the news and attitudes towards what constitutes honest information. According to the Islamic Mass Media Charter (Jakarta, 1980), the sacred task of Muslim media men [sic], is on the one hand to protect the Umma from “imminent dangers,” indeed to “censor all materials,” towards that end, and on the other, “To combat Zionism and its colonialist policy of creating settlements as well as its ruthless suppression of the Palestinian people.”
So when asked why he had inserted unconnected footage of an Israeli soldier firing a rifle into the Al Dura sequence in order to make it look like the Israelis had killed the boy in cold blood, an official of PA TV responded:
These are forms of artistic expression, but all of this serves to convey the truth… We never forget our higher journalistic principles to which we are committed of relating the truth and nothing but the truth.When Talal abu Rahmah received an award for his footage of Muhammad al Dura in Morocco in 2001, he told a reporter, “I went into journalism to carry on the fight for my people.”
These remarks serve as an important prelude to considering the France2 rushes that will be shown in court in Paris on November 14 in the Enderlin France2 vs. Philippe Karsenty defamation case. These tapes were filmed by Talal abu Rahmah on September 30, 2000, and for seven years, Enderlin has claimed that the tapes prove him right and show the boy in such unbearable death throes that he cut them out of his report. But several experts who have seen the tapes (this author included) claim that the only scene of al Dura that Enderlin cut was the final scene where he seems alive and well; and still more disturbingly the rest of the rushes are filled with staged scenes. Indeed there seems to be a kind of “public secret” at work on the Arab “street”: people fake injury, others evacuate them hurriedly (and without stretchers) past Palestinian cameramen like Talal, who use Western video equipment to record these improvised scenes. Pallywood: the Palestinian movie industry.
Read it all.
Posted by Robert at November 10, 2007 7:59 AM
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at November 10, 2007 8:47 AM
lol @ article
Heck, the MSM & entire Unholy Alliance
https://www.donationreport.com/init/controller/ProductAttrSelectionView
were their best teachers!
Who the hell are they kidding?
LOL
at November 10, 2007 8:53 AM
And if that link didn't work, here ya go...
http://books.google.com/books?id=azE5qoXTgoAC&dq=%22unholy+alliance%22&pg=PP1&ots=L-vCdIk5Fa&sig=GvyF79wkLHvN7aR9JsbZrMcGpJE&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fas_q%3D%26hl%3Den%26num%3D10%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch%26as_epq%3Dunholy%2Balliance%26as_oq%3D%26as_eq%3D%26lr%3D%26cr%3D%26as_ft%3Di%26as_filetype%3D%26as_qdr%3Dall%26as_nlo%3D%26as_nhi%3D%26as_occt%3Dany%26as_dt%3Di%26as_sitesearch%3D%26as_rights%3D%26safe%3Dimages&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPP1,M1
either way, the palestinian medias best teachers, hands down.
at November 10, 2007 8:57 AM
“War is deceit”, Muhammad.
Posted by: senor doeboy at November 10, 2007 9:00 AM
I predict this will be the least covered trial in the history of courtroom journalism.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen at November 10, 2007 10:38 AM
Greetings:
There used to be a film clip on YouTube of the wind down of a PLO funeral. As the pallbearers moved off into the night, they dropped the casket which then popped its top. Out of the dropped and opened casket climbs its contents. The pallbearers and the "deceased" then walked down the road with the now empty casket.
Please welcome "journalistic ethics" to the Oxymoron Club.
Posted by: 11B40 at November 10, 2007 1:23 PM
From the article:
According to the Islamic Mass Media Charter (Jakarta, 1980), the sacred task of Muslim media men [sic], is on the one hand to protect the Umma from “imminent dangers,” indeed to “censor all materials,” towards that end, and on the other, “To combat Zionism and its colonialist policy of creating settlements as well as its ruthless suppression of the Palestinian people.”
It's worth repeating again and again, the goals and moral standards of the ummah are not the same as those of the infidels. All people are not the same, all religions are not the same, all journalistic standards are not the same.
Now that the bluff has been called on the Al-Dura hoax, it will be very interesting to see what hand they're holding.
Posted by: special_guest at November 10, 2007 1:25 PM
This article has a link to the "Islamic Mass Media Charter,"
http://www.ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Ethics&ID=38189&LID=1
which is so flagrant in its intent as to merit reproduction in its entirety here.
Islamic Mass Media Charter
Islamic Media Conference (Jakarta 1980)
adopted by the First International Islamic Mass Media Conference, Jakarta, 1.-3. September 1980. The Islamic Mass Media Charter is an integral part of the Jakarta Declaration
In keeping with our belief in Allah and Allah's Apostle; and in implementation of Islamic Shariah; and in complete awareness of the imminent dangers besetting the Muslim Ummah and impeding its religious reawakening and in appreciation of the important role of the various forms of Mass-Media and its worthy aims, integrity of the profession and its tradition and; conscious of the goals and aspirations of the Ummah, we workers in the Islamic Media who are now gathered here at the First International Islamic Mass-Media Conference, hereby endorse this charter for Islamic Media. We solemnly pledge to conform to it and regard it a torchlight for all our endeavours as well as a source of rights and obligations.
Article 1
Consolidation of faith of the Muslim individual in Islamic values and ethical principles.
Work towards achieving integration of the Muslim individual's Islamic personality.
Endeavour to present real facts within the frame-work of Islamic rule of conduct.
Endeavour to acquaint the Muslim individual with his duties towards others, his basic rights and liberties.
Article 2
Muslim Media-Men should strive to unite the ranks of Muslims, and to advocate resorting to wisdom, Islamic brotherhood and tolerance in solving their problems.
Islamic Media-men should be committed to the following: To combat all forms of colonialism, aggression, Fascism and Racism.
To combat Zionism and its colonialist policy of creating settlements as well as its ruthless suppression of the Palestinian people.
Islamic Media-men should keep vigilance against anti-Islamic ideas and trends.
Article 3
Islamic Media-Men should censor all material which is either broadcast or published, in order to protect the Ummah from influences which are harmful to Islamic character and values, and in order to forestall all dangers.
Islamic Media-workers should follow a decent style in carrying out the duties and should in preserving the integrity of the profession and Islamic traditions avoid using offensive words and refrain from publishing obscene material, nor indulge in cynicism, slander, provocation of "Fitna'' rumour-mongering and other forms of defamatory actions.
To refrain from either broadcasting or publishing anything that goes against public morality and the rules of decent demeanour. This also means any condoning of crime, violence, suicide or anything that arouses terror or provokes lower instincts, whether directly or indirectly, should be strictly avoided.
Commercial advertisements which go against morality should be stricly debarred from either broadcasts or publications.
Article 4
Islamic journalists must be committed to the propagation of Da'wah, to elucidating Islamic issues and to the defence of Muslim point of view. They should also seek to introduce Muslim peoples to one another. They should also be interested in Islamic history, Islamic civilization and the promotion of Arabic language and its dissemination among Muslims, especially Muslim minorities. They should also be committed to re-establish the dominion of Shariah, in lieu of man-made laws and principles. They must be committed to struggle for the liberation of Palestine, especially Al-Quds. They must be totally dedicated to the idea of the Islamic Ummah which must be untainted by either regional, national or tribal chauvinism. They must also strongly advocate the fight against under development in all its manifestations and support the effort towards full development which should guarantee to the Ummah its betterment and power.
Source: "The Journal Rabitat Al-Alam Al-lslami", 7. 1980 (12), p. 60-61
via al-Bab.com
Note that among the sponsors of the site on which this document appears is the National Endowment for Democracy, which, Wikipedia informs us, is "a U.S. non-profit organization that was founded in 1983, to promote democracy by providing cash grants funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress. Although administered as a private organization, its funding comes almost entirely from a governmental appropriation by Congress and it was created by an act of Congress."
Your tax dollars at work.
at November 10, 2007 2:37 PM
They want to promote the Arabic language but are against tribal chauvinism? Methinks they don't understand the words they write.
Posted by: aynrandgirl at November 10, 2007 4:05 PM
Palestinian Goebbelses and their cowardly Western slaves, so-called "reporters", should be put on a Nuremberg trial. But how will the trial in France turn out? Is there a chance a politically corrupted French judge will turn out a little bit better than our cowardly "submit to jihad" American jurors in New York (1991), Tampa (2006), Chicago (2007) and Dallas (2007)?
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Posted by: Enragedsince1999 at November 10, 2007 6:58 PM
So will the 18 year old M. al-Dura show up for the trial?
They should at least subpoena him.
Posted by: profitsbeard at November 11, 2007 1:04 AM
LOL, 'beard...
as if that'll ever be allowed to happen!
The REAL puppetmaster's behind it, among their other many anti-western "projects", will never allow it.
It would mean suicide form them all.
It'd bring down the entire MSM-worldwide (aka, COMINTERN's child) causing a cascading collapse that would make chernobyl look like a picnic...lol
But it'd be priceless, wouldn't it...lol
Posted by: jcom972 at November 11, 2007 5:59 AM
If I didn't know better I would think they were talking about the Cresent News Network. Or do I?
MSM, the only mis-information worth diseminating.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at November 11, 2007 2:20 PM
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