During the activities of the second day of the Arab Media Summit, the “Arab Media Forum” devoted a special session to discuss media dealing with the Palestinian issue under the title “Palestine from an Arab media perspective,” during which the Egyptian journalist and writer, Imad El-Din Adeeb, and the Emirati journalist and writer, Muhammad Al-Hammadi, spoke. Editor-in-chief of the Jusoor Post website, and Ghassan Charbel, editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, and it was moderated by journalist Suhaib Sharrayer from Sky News Arabia..
The discussion centered on the Arab media’s handling of the situation in the Gaza Strip, the double standards with which the Western media deals with the crisis, and the absence of professional standards in some media’s coverage of the war and their disregard for the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the suffering of its residents. .
Ghassan Charbel stressed that the Arab media’s coverage of the war on Gaza was good, but their methods of dealing with it differed according to the orientations, nature and identity of the media institution, but the Arab media scene in general interacted well, despite the great blackout that Israel imposed on media professionals..
Charbel pointed out that Arab media professionals showed professionalism in covering the war on Gaza, and showed great sympathy, even though ideal coverage of the war and the state of great destruction it caused requires providing facts and information, which serves the issue more than just sympathy for it..
Regarding the role of new media and social media platforms in covering the war on Gaza, Charbel stressed that despite the lack of professionalism of the new media and the accuracy of its content, it was able to convey the true picture of events from within the Gaza Strip..
For his part, Imad al-Din Adeeb stressed that the Gaza war was subject to a media blackout, the largest since World War II, as Israel prevented media coverage and the entry of Arab and foreign journalists and correspondents, and he saluted the heroic media professionals who are still reporting the situation on the ground from the Gaza Strip..
Adeeb emphasized the exceptional role played by social media in conveying events moment by moment, a role that traditional media only dreamed of. .
For his part, writer Muhammad Al-Hammadi believed that the Arab media succeeded in conveying the news, pointing out the necessity of all Arab media lining up to reveal the suffering of the Palestinians, which the whole world was moved by, as an expression of rejection of the bad humanitarian conditions caused by the war on the people of Gaza..
Al-Hammadi agreed with Imad al-Din Adeeb in his praise of the great role played by young people in the Arab world in transmitting events in audio and video via social media platforms, while the war on Gaza revealed the bias of the international media, which had always prided itself on objectivity, professionalism, and accuracy in reporting events, stressing at the time The Arabs need a targeted media that speaks for itself and communicates its voice to the world.
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