{"id":2963,"date":"2008-03-01T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T17:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2008-03-01T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T17:06:04","slug":"journalists-and-publishers-see-themselves-as-actors-within-the-zionist-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2963","title":{"rendered":"Journalists and publishers see themselves as actors within the Zionist movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\">Diary<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yonatan Mendel, London Review of Books, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v30\/n05\/mend01_.html\">6 March 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A year ago I applied for the job of Occupied Territories correspondent at <em>Ma\u2019ariv<\/em>, an Israeli newspaper. I speak Arabic and have taught in Palestinian schools and taken part in many joint Jewish-Palestinian projects. At my interview the boss asked how I could possibly be objective. I had spent too much time with Palestinians; I was bound to be biased in their favour. I didn\u2019t get the job. My next interview was with Walla, Israel\u2019s most popular website. This time I did get the job and I became Walla\u2019s Middle East correspondent. I soon understood what Tamar Liebes, the director of the Smart Institute of Communication at the Hebrew University, meant when she said: \u2018Journalists and publishers see themselves as actors within the Zionist movement, not as critical outsiders.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v30\/n05\/mend01_.html\">Read the diary<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diary Yonatan Mendel, London Review of Books, 6 March 2008 A year ago I applied for the job of Occupied Territories correspondent at Ma\u2019ariv, an Israeli newspaper. I speak Arabic and have taught in Palestinian schools and taken part in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2963\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-LN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}