Fisk: journalists guilty of fictional reporting

The Independent's Middle East correspondent, Robert Fisk, argues that western journalists bear a burden of guilt for the misreporting of the region. He cites several instances of the way in which Israeli spin dominates the narrative of Middle East reporting, and therefore give "a fictitious version of events." He writes: "Constant references to a 'fence' instead of a wall, to 'settlements or 'neighborhoods' instead of colonies, their description of the West Bank as "disputed" rather than occupied, has bred a kind of slackness in reporting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." (Via New America Media)