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Day 11 — September 21

Faking Victims to Hide the Real Ones

There's a whole cottage industry of manufactured victimhood footage sold to newsrooms — while actual victims rarely get a camera pointed at them.

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Faking Victims to Hide the Real Ones

A documented industry of staged footage — sold to newsrooms as news, while real victims rarely get a camera pointed at them.

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September 21

There's a whole cottage industry of manufactured victimhood footage sold to newsrooms — while actual victims rarely get a camera pointed at them.

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Remember + Honor + Stand Together

Day 11 — September 21

Faking Victims to Hide the Real Ones

There's a whole cottage industry of manufactured victimhood footage sold to newsrooms — while actual victims rarely get a camera pointed at them.

Since the early 2000s, a specific problem has repeated itself in coverage of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians: real suffering exists, and gets reported — but so does staged and manufactured suffering, often.

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Faking Victims to Hide the Real Ones

A documented industry of staged footage — sold to newsrooms as news, while real victims rarely get a camera pointed at them.

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September 21

There's a whole cottage industry of manufactured victimhood footage sold to newsrooms — while actual victims rarely get a camera pointed at them.

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  • Historical case studies: The Road to Jenin (2003); Pallywood (2005); Hizbollywood (2006)
  • Contemporary case studies: Al-Ahli Hospital coverage; “Gazawood”; coverage of famine claims in Gaza
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