Friday, July
18th, 2014 |
Reporter
Exposing War Crimes Gets Pulled From NBC News
NBC Pulls Veteran Reporter After Witness To Gaza Kids Murder
NBC is
facing questions over its decision to pull veteran news correspondent Ayman
Mohyeldin out of Gaza just after he personally witnessed the Israeli military’s
killing of four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach. Mohyeldin was kicking a
soccer ball around with the boys just minutes before they died.
He is a longtime reporter in the region. In his coverage, he
reports on the Gaza conflict in the context of the Israeli occupation, sparking
criticism from some supporters of the Israeli offensive.
Back
in 2008 and 2009, when he worked for Al Jazeera, Mohyeldin and his colleague
Sherine Tadros were the only foreign journalists on the ground in Gaza as
Israel killed 1,400 people in what it called “Operation Cast Lead.
” We
speak to Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept, who has revealed that the decision
to pull Mohyeldin from Gaza and remove him from reporting on the situation came
from NBC executive David Verdi. Greenwald also comments on the broader picture
of the coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict in the U.S. media.
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