Dion Nissenbaum, Jerusalem bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, reports that “the Israeli military has once again barred the first small group of international reporters from getting into Gaza” even as “more and more journalists continue to arrive every day in hopes of” doing just that. “For the moment,” Nissenbaum writes, “the only comprehensive coverage coming out of Gaza is from Al Jazeera English, the young channel still not available on US satellite channels.”
Nissenbaum calls those reports (available here):
graphic and stark portrayals of the situation that rarely make it on sanitized US news programs…[reports that]can at-times be hyperbolic, but US viewers should be used to that kind of thing from watching Fox News.
Especially at a time when the international media is unable to provide a view of the situation, Al Jazeera’s coverage is all-the-more valuable.
