The Guardian shows a clip of the recent armed confrontations in Hebron due to the riots by Jewish settlers. I had read earlier about B’Tselem handing out small camera’s to Palestinians so they could record settler aggression and this is a clip that came out of that program.
This is a precursor to how amateur media are going to become even more important to the dissemination of news and how new media can flatten information asymmetry quite effectively.
One question remains about asymmetry and that is asymmetry in mainstream media reporting. The British press has a reputation to have one of the more fair and balanced reports on the conflict (as does for instance Ha’aretz) 1. I am curious if Dutch mainstream media have aired this fairly graphic clip, I can’t find anything on either the NOS player 2or the main NOS site 3 and neither on RTL Nieuws.
Anybody seen this on Dutch television?
Though odd that I couldn’t find it at the Independent. ↩︎
Maybe because the search and the interface of that player are completely atrocious. ↩︎
Except for this brief blurb about today’s events. ↩︎
