Sunday, January 25, 2015
3:00 PM
Elder of Ziyon
No comments
The Hasby Award nominees for Best Watchdog - Arabic Media and NGOs are:
Again, even though there were only three nominees, it was a very hard category.
And the winner of the Hasby is....
The Middle East Media Research Institute has been consistently and accurately been exposing sides of Arabic and Farsi media that has been ignored by the mainstream media. Their scoops have often made the news, and have also prompted real changes.
This year in particular, MEMRI has been in the forefront of the reporting on ISIS, and news media have been relying on MEMRI to discover and translate jihadist communications.
In short, MEMRI is an invaluable resource not only for understanding what is happening now, but also in knowing what is likely to happen.
It isn't meant to be "hasbara" so much as an invaluable resource, But it just so happens that the biggest blind spot that Western politicians, pundits and media have in the Middle East is their complete ignorance of how many Arabs and Muslims really think. Usually the violent and threatening and anti-semitic words of Muslim leaders are watered down three times before Western audiences get to see them. MEMRI help short-circuit that process to allow all of us to see the unvarnished truth, usually bad but sometimes good, but all necessary for a true understanding of the region.
Mazal tov. MEMRI!
--
Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 1/25/2015 03:00:00 PM
Again, even though there were only three nominees, it was a very hard category.
And the winner of the Hasby is....
The Middle East Media Research Institute has been consistently and accurately been exposing sides of Arabic and Farsi media that has been ignored by the mainstream media. Their scoops have often made the news, and have also prompted real changes.
This year in particular, MEMRI has been in the forefront of the reporting on ISIS, and news media have been relying on MEMRI to discover and translate jihadist communications.
In short, MEMRI is an invaluable resource not only for understanding what is happening now, but also in knowing what is likely to happen.
It isn't meant to be "hasbara" so much as an invaluable resource, But it just so happens that the biggest blind spot that Western politicians, pundits and media have in the Middle East is their complete ignorance of how many Arabs and Muslims really think. Usually the violent and threatening and anti-semitic words of Muslim leaders are watered down three times before Western audiences get to see them. MEMRI help short-circuit that process to allow all of us to see the unvarnished truth, usually bad but sometimes good, but all necessary for a true understanding of the region.
Mazal tov. MEMRI!
--
Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 1/25/2015 03:00:00 PM
Related Posts:
[Elder of Ziyon] How the PA fooled the West on Jenin (Toameh)From Khaled Abu Toameh at the Gatestone Institute: The Palestinian Authority has been boasting over the past four years of its success in restoring law and order to the West Bank city of Jenin. Journalists from all arou… Read More
[Elder of Ziyon] "Israel spreads AIDS and heroin in Egypt"Great stuff from MEMRI: This has it all - the Protocols, Zionist heroin, and naked Israeli girls purposefully spreading AIDS among Egyptian youth (hijacking an old urban legend, no less.) Not bad for… Read More
[Elder of Ziyon] Erdogan on Turkey: “One nation, one state, one flag and one religion.”From Hurriyet: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's remarks on "one religion" for Turkey were a slip of the tongue in his apparent intention to emphasize the common Muslim faith of Turks and Kurds, a senior official of th… Read More
[Elder of Ziyon] Wednesday links (Ian)Marx: Jews Were Majority In Jerusalem [Jerusalem's] sedentary population numbers about 15,500 souls, of whom 4,000 are Mussulmans [Muslims] and 8,000 Jews . . . the Mussulmans, forming about a quarter of the whole, consist… Read More
[Elder of Ziyon] UNRWA closed by protesters in West Bank Dozens of protesters closed off UNRWA headquarters in Ramallah because of the latest terrible thing UNRWA did. Did it pay low salaries? Did it stop terrorists from joining? Did it say it was going to teach about the Ho… Read More
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)