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Showing Original Post only (View all)NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children [View all]
Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterdays killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset at his treatment, the executives claimed the decision was motivated by security concerns as Israel prepares a ground invasion, a claim repeated to me by an NBC executive. But late yesterday, NBC sent another correspondent, Richard Engel, along with an American producer who has never been to Gaza and speaks no Arabic, into Gaza to cover the ongoing Israeli assault (both Mohyeldin and Engel speak Arabic).
Mohyeldin recounted how, moments before their death, he was kicking a soccer ball with the four boys, who were between the ages of 9 and 11 and all from the same family. He posted numerous chilling details on his Twitter and Instagram accounts, including the victims names and ages, photographs he took of their anguished parents, and video of one of their mothers as she learned about the death of her young son. He interviewed one of the wounded boys at the hospital shortly before being operated on. He then appeared on MSNBCs All In with Chris Hayes, where he dramatically recounted what he saw.
Despite this powerful first-hand reporting or perhaps because of it Mohyeldin was nowhere to be seen on last nights NBC Nightly News broadcast with Brian Williams. Instead, as Media Bistros Jordan Chariton noted, NBC curiously had Richard Engel who was in Tel Aviv, and had just arrived there an hour or so earlier report on the attack. Charlton wrote that the decision to have Engel report the story for Nightly instead of Mohyeldin angered some NBC News staffers.
Indeed, numerous NBC employees, including some of the networks highest-profile stars, were at first confused and then indignant over the use of Engel rather than Mohyeldin to report the story. But what they did not know, and what has not been reported until now, is that Mohyeldin was removed completely from reporting on Gaza by a top NBC executive, David Verdi, who ordered Mohyeldin to leave Gaza immediately.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/17/nbc-removes-ayman-mohyeldin-gaza-coverage-witnesses-israeli-beach-killing-four-boys/
Mohyeldin recounted how, moments before their death, he was kicking a soccer ball with the four boys, who were between the ages of 9 and 11 and all from the same family. He posted numerous chilling details on his Twitter and Instagram accounts, including the victims names and ages, photographs he took of their anguished parents, and video of one of their mothers as she learned about the death of her young son. He interviewed one of the wounded boys at the hospital shortly before being operated on. He then appeared on MSNBCs All In with Chris Hayes, where he dramatically recounted what he saw.
Despite this powerful first-hand reporting or perhaps because of it Mohyeldin was nowhere to be seen on last nights NBC Nightly News broadcast with Brian Williams. Instead, as Media Bistros Jordan Chariton noted, NBC curiously had Richard Engel who was in Tel Aviv, and had just arrived there an hour or so earlier report on the attack. Charlton wrote that the decision to have Engel report the story for Nightly instead of Mohyeldin angered some NBC News staffers.
Indeed, numerous NBC employees, including some of the networks highest-profile stars, were at first confused and then indignant over the use of Engel rather than Mohyeldin to report the story. But what they did not know, and what has not been reported until now, is that Mohyeldin was removed completely from reporting on Gaza by a top NBC executive, David Verdi, who ordered Mohyeldin to leave Gaza immediately.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/17/nbc-removes-ayman-mohyeldin-gaza-coverage-witnesses-israeli-beach-killing-four-boys/
Our media does a terrible disservice to the American people with their blatant bias on many issues, including the I/P conflict. Without accurate facts, Americans that don't pay much attention don't really understand who is responsible for this conflict. Though some Americans that do receive accurate facts still blame the wrong people. There will always be bigots in this world.
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NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children [View all]
cpwm17
Jul 2014
OP
I was actually surprised at some of the initial reports on the situation this time
sabrina 1
Jul 2014
#113
They ordered him out because they don't want the truth to be reported. Sending in the propagandists
kelliekat44
Jul 2014
#118
Americans need to loathe the Palestinians and back the US-Israel war machine...
CoffeeCat
Jul 2014
#82
My guess is he will talk sooner or later so we shall find out but I don't trust the media.
hrmjustin
Jul 2014
#102
and the Israeli soldiers use Palestinian kids as target practice.. that's shameful too.
Voice for Peace
Jul 2014
#13
Think this might be a case of yanking a victim of PTSD? That I could understand--no excuses for NBC
Hekate
Jul 2014
#20
Well we can put this story behind us now. Luckily this huge embarrassment to israel can
GoneFishin
Jul 2014
#24
I'm guessing they wanted reporters who are more pro-Israel to do their reporting:
Arugula Latte
Jul 2014
#61
If this country is allowing its journalists to be threatened by an alleged "ally", rethink it now.
Moostache
Jul 2014
#60
Mohyeldin is Egyptian/Palestinian; Engel does not threaten NBC News in that way.
Divernan
Jul 2014
#55
That was my first thought - PTSD after watching that happen right in front of him.
riderinthestorm
Jul 2014
#74
NBC/MSNBC has a whole flock of shows DUers like to watch, like Rachel Maddow. Yet so many here...
Hekate
Jul 2014
#85
would you post the jury remarks? I am interested in seeing what they said. Thank you.
uppityperson
Jul 2014
#95
Thank you for posting them. It looks like 2 said not for GD, though 1 said Really Big News exemption
uppityperson
Jul 2014
#97
Locked is fine. But giving me a hide puts me close to being unable to post (again)
Bonobo
Jul 2014
#105
CNN Reporter Deletes Tweet Calling Israelis Cheering Missile Strikes ‘Scum’
Roy Serohz
Jul 2014
#100
Our media is a sad joke, a shell. It's much worse than a terrible disservice to the American people
mountain grammy
Jul 2014
#109
4/16/08 Fadel Shana'a, reuters cameraman killed by a flechette fired from a Merkva 4 tank in Gaza?
azurnoir
Jul 2014
#112
FWiW I think it's more basic than that- Shana'a wasn't targeted for something he saw
azurnoir
Jul 2014
#117