Here's one small corageous voice that faults the Arab media for its pandering and deliberate lying. It's sixties style "advocacy journalism" taken to its inevitable extreme...

I [understand] the feelings of my colleagues, the Arab journalists, who deal with events emotionally rather than reasonably. They collect fragments of news reports that suit their hopes...."
"I know that adopting an impartial stand in the [Arab] media world is akin to suicide, because there are many who push the media into extremes, and take 'nationalistic' positions, and maintain that whoever thinks differently is committing treason against the [national] cause. [They maintain] that lying for the sake of the cause is moral and honorable....
"The Arab media today, with its clear inclination towards exaggerations and false promises of victory, is feeding the public stories that have nothing to do with the real events in the field.…"
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But NOOOO, it would be judgemental of Western culture (white males) to depricate the disfunctional culture of the Arab press.

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I mean why can't they meet the fine stds of Fox News as exemplified by their Apollo moon landings didn't really happen "news" documentary.