How Arafat's Gunmen Suppress the News
A snippet from How Arafat’s Gunmen Suppress the News: Suppressing news by threatening reporters with violence or death is one of the dirty little secrets of Middle East journalism. In his 1989 memoir From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman wrote that “physical intimidation” was a major impediment to honest reporting from Beirut during the years … Continue reading How Arafat's Gunmen Suppress the News