عندما يسأل صحفيٌّ قاعةً مليئةً بالشباب عمّا إذا كانوا لا يزالون يثقون بهيئة الإذاعة البريطانية (BBC) فيما يخصّ فلسطين…
لا يرفع أحدٌ يده.
هذا ليس بالأمر المُحيّر.
هذه ليست “معلومات مُضلّلة”.
هذا جيلٌ يرى الحقيقة، ويرفض أن يُضلَّل.
بينما تُزيّف وسائل الإعلام التقليدية جرائم إسرائيل وتُخفّف من حدّتها وتُشوّهها، يتّجه الشباب إلى الصحفيين المُستقلّين، والمراسلين الميدانيين، وشهادات الفلسطينيين الحقيقية التي لا يُمكن تحريفها أو طمسها.
إنّ نظامًا إعلاميًا يحمي السلطة بدلًا من الشعب قد فقد جمهوره بالفعل.
الشباب ليسوا صامتين.
إنهم يُشاهدون.
وهم يختارون الحقيقة.
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النص العربي:
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Who here gets their news on Israel, particularly the truth about Israel or Palestine? From the BBC? You trust the BBC in terms of how it reports on Israel and Palestine? Okay, I don’t see many hands. The reason I say this is just yesterday they tweeted a headline. Israel says Rafah crossing to open soon to let Palestinians leave Gaza via Egypt. Someone tell me what’s wrong with that headline? Okay, I’ll spare you. I’ll tell you when the BBC says Israel letting Palestinians leave. What are they doing? They are are manipulating and reframing ethnic cleansing, which is a crime, as a humanitarian gesture. We will let them leave. And this is just one example. And I forgive me for pointing at the BBC, but they’ve been very egregious when it comes to Palestine and Israel in their coverage. At a time when mainstream media organizations are abandoning their most fundamental duties. It opens up a whole new arena for people, whether individuals, journalists, content creators, or most importantly, people on the ground in Sudan and Gaza and the West Bank and elsewhere to be the primary sources to do what the journalists are not doing. Right? And I think it’s important that we acknowledge the time we’re living in, which is a time where too many have abandoned the real principles that make journalism a relevant craft and are in our day and age.
