Joris luyendijk het zijn net mensen pdf

Het zijn net mensen by Joris Luyendijk, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Luyendijk is a good observer; his style is impossible to fault and, happily, he is not lacking in self-mockery. Hoe meer hij meemaakte, hoe verbaasder hij raakte. In the book I am trying to be as critical of correspondents as correspondents are of the rest of humanity.

Between and he lived in Cairo, then Beirut and finally East Jerusalem, working for the newspapers de …. ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics.

In Israel yet other filters apply; correspondents there encounter an extremely well-oiled propaganda machine. Explore the Home Gift Guide.

Volg mij op Twitter. In the US, the book has received no attention whatsoever, something it more or less predicts. Jumping at luendijk chance, I had five roller-coaster years as a reporter, first from Cairo, then Beirut and finally East Jerusalem. But he describes all this very enjoyably, with humour, extremely accessibly, and without sparing himself. Hij ondervond aan den lijve dictatuur, bezetting, terreur en oorlog. For journalists this dazzling book is a must, and no less so for the television viewer, radio listener and newspaper menwen.

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The editors in the Netherlands called when something happened, they faxed or emailed press releases, and then I'd retell them in my own words on the radio, or rework them into an article for the newspaper. This was the reason my editors found it more important that I could be reached in the place itself than that I knew what was going on. The news agencies provided enough information for you to be able to write or talk your way through any crisis or summit meeting.

This reliance on pre-packaged information, especially from the news agencies and the likes of CNN, but also from the super slick Israeli and American PR-spinners, is one of the things that really bothers Luyendijk -- but, as he shows, it's also a trap that's hard to avoid, given the time pressures and the difficulties of obtaining information through other channels -- and the fact that in this sound-bite world, no one much seems to care about the whole story.

In this anecdote-filled volume he gives many examples of how the headlines, wire-summaries, and brief bits of film footage entirely miss much of the essential background -- an idea that's hardly new, and that many are at least on a theoretical level 'aware' of, but that nevertheless is often shocking.

Add to that the manipulation of the media that many have become so adept at -- and Luyendijk paints an especially unsavory picture of both the Israelis and the Palestinians in their ongoing media-war -- and the journalist isn't so much a purveyor of information as someone to be used in what amounts to an advertising campaign.

Luyendijk acknowledges that truth is very, very elusive, even when one actively tries to get to the bottom of things and talks to locals, and he even goes so far as to suggest that it would be a major step forward if journalists were simply more willing to acknowledge in their stories that they're not sure about the facts. One suspects, however, that such admissions would only serve as additional fodder for the critics of whatever story the journalist is trying to tell.

Luyendijk does make the useful point that journalism in the Arab states is hardly what can be considered journalism in the 'West' though, as he notes in his afterword to the English-language edition, a great deal has changed even just in the three years since the original Dutch edition came out but there's also much that remains fundamentally the same The dictatorial nature of Arab governments -- and, across the board, they're all dictatorial to some usually greater degrees, with Lebanon and Palestine the fairly feeble poster-children for Arabic democracy -- means there is no such thing as freedom of the press, and that government control is essentially absolute.

The hair-raising examples from some of the Arab states clearly demonstrate the terrible levels of mis- and disinformation -- and, in his personal encounters with people on the street, suggest some of the cost of having a not-adequately-informed populace though similar misguided opinions can be found in most any man-on-the-street interview in any American or British publication In his dealings with bureaucracy and everyday life in a variety of countries, Luyendijk does give a decent introduction to the Arab world well, the Middle East -- there's not really anything about the Maghreb.

From hostile Iraq, indifferent to public opinion i. He also repeats quite a large number of jokes from the region -- as if to prove that these folk can have a sense of humor too though quite a few of the jokes are rather ugly.

Certainly, he makes a good point in how the foreign media fails to portray the everyday human side of the Arabic population. The difficulty of finding anyone who is willing to speak on the record is also a constant, as in these dictatorial regimes what they say can quickly come back to haunt them. Among the entities he finds most problematic -- but also typical for everything in the region -- are the Western funded human-rights organizations: Their chance of getting the subsidies increases as they become more famous and, of course, Western journalists can help them achieve such fame.

Read more Read less. Jumping at the chance, I had five roller-coaster years as a reporter, first from Cairo, then Beirut and finally East Jerusalem. He backs up his arguments briskly and with verve, using numerous vivid anecdotes.

AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. For journalists this dazzling book is a must, and no less so for the television viewer, radio listener and newspaper reader. The main menden of this provocative book is that our image of the Middle East is coloured by all kinds of filters.

More than just an analysis of the Middle East, Hello Everybody! Shortly after the book came out, a Dutch newspaper asked me to become their Middle East correspondent. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. Schrijvers en vertalers Boeken. How many followers does Osama Bin Laden have in the Arab world? Fragmentvertaling English PDF document. Zzijn Het zijn net mensen.

And what about democracy? But he describes all this very enjoyably, with humour, extremely accessibly, and without sparing himself. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. Joris Luyendijk has written an almost philosophical reportage about the shortcomings of journalism.

For two year I was active on the JorisLuyendijk Banking blog for the Guardian in London, an experiment in long-tail journalism.

Dictators survive thanks to a lack of transparency, which makes reliable journalism impossible.