indy Germany again censoring Gaza
ee ef | 03.03.2008 20:50 | Palestine
Their moral and ours: to some publishing pics of killed toddlers seems more of a problem than babies getting killed. IMC Germany censores the cruel truth. IMC UK is probably a way of avoiding it.
Yesterday I published a report on - what I see - as western media´s reluctance to publish pics of killed children in Gaza, especially in Germany.
I used fotos of kids killed in Gaza. My report was taken off IMC Germany after ten minutes. Some of the material, originally published by Al Jazeera, small Palestine and Israel independent picture agencies, I published today as a comment to
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/392818.html?c=on#c190378
Today (Monday), Berlin left group "revolution" published the first and only statement of the German radical left on IMC Germany. It dealt with a protest organised against the IDF military action in Gaza.
The fact alone that a posting carried content critical of Israel, and that comments with pictures of Gaza victims were added caused a ferocious attack of accusations defending Israels intervention in Gaza and condemning criticism of Israel.
Don´t get me wrong: we should also publish pictures of Israeli victims. We should see both sides. Independent media should be inependent and not partial indeed.
But what caused the skandal on indy Germany? The killing or the publishing?
Publishing pics of killed toddlers on indy - as was done by Al Jazeera or independent middle east news agencies - was regarded as the crime. They call it: propaganda, sensationalism, despisable, abhorrent because of not asking the relatives of victims for consent for publishing.
Publishing pics of killed toddlers is disgusting, killing them not?
They couldn´t care less.
I used fotos of kids killed in Gaza. My report was taken off IMC Germany after ten minutes. Some of the material, originally published by Al Jazeera, small Palestine and Israel independent picture agencies, I published today as a comment to
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/392818.html?c=on#c190378 Today (Monday), Berlin left group "revolution" published the first and only statement of the German radical left on IMC Germany. It dealt with a protest organised against the IDF military action in Gaza.
The fact alone that a posting carried content critical of Israel, and that comments with pictures of Gaza victims were added caused a ferocious attack of accusations defending Israels intervention in Gaza and condemning criticism of Israel.
Don´t get me wrong: we should also publish pictures of Israeli victims. We should see both sides. Independent media should be inependent and not partial indeed.
But what caused the skandal on indy Germany? The killing or the publishing?
Publishing pics of killed toddlers on indy - as was done by Al Jazeera or independent middle east news agencies - was regarded as the crime. They call it: propaganda, sensationalism, despisable, abhorrent because of not asking the relatives of victims for consent for publishing.
Publishing pics of killed toddlers is disgusting, killing them not?
They couldn´t care less.
ee ef