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That's Right, Munnerdrone's Slander Mainstay is a bunch of Biased Hacks.
It's obvious to anyone/everyone.
And this is from a PALESTINIAN perspective.
Besides her personally inflating and Blowing up a tear-gas collateral damage into "Baby Killing", al-Munnerlyn's source is just Goofy NOT Credible HEARSAY.
The Maan News Agency: An Insult to Professional Journalism
4 September 2013
Khalid Amayreh
Alray: the Palestinian Media Agency
ALRAY-Palestinian Media Agency - The Maan News Agency: An insult to pr - ALRAY
Indeed, Ma'an got this "Israel opened Dam Gates" Wrong last week.
Israel 'opens dams' flooding Gaza Strip near Deir al Balah | Maan News Agency
This was TOTALLY FALSE.
It's unchecked Hearsay/Slander that is Typical of Ma'an, MunnerLiar's MAIN source.
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It's obvious to anyone/everyone.
And this is from a PALESTINIAN perspective.
Besides her personally inflating and Blowing up a tear-gas collateral damage into "Baby Killing", al-Munnerlyn's source is just Goofy NOT Credible HEARSAY.
The Maan News Agency: An Insult to Professional Journalism
4 September 2013
Khalid Amayreh
Alray: the Palestinian Media Agency
ALRAY-Palestinian Media Agency - The Maan News Agency: An insult to pr - ALRAY
IOW, Ma'an are Unaccountable amateur Criminals.When the Bethlehem-based M'aan News Agency (MNA) was launched in 2005, with generous funding from the Danish, Dutch and UK governments as well as the EU, UNDP, and UNESCO, many Palestinians thought, or more correctly hoped, it would be a qualitative addition to the highly polarized and chronically biased Palestinian media.
Some observers thought the European-funded outlet would soon overcome its numerous problems, including a shocking lack of professionalism, under-trained or untrained staff, serious reportorial flaws and the highly anti-Islamic tendentiousness characterizing the agency's general discourse.
However, eight years on, it seems that the overall performance of M'aan is exacerbating and regressing, almost from every conceivable perspective.
I don't claim to be the ultimate arbiter who determines what is journalistically professional and what is not. However, there is ample evidence indicting MNA for its excessive un-professionalism, biased news writing, and the brazenly scandalous mixing of hard news with personal opinions. One doesn't have to have a Ph.D. in journalism from a prestigious college to detect these flaws.
I am not happy about this sorry state of affair afflicting the agency. I don't think anyone is. Deviation-especially willful deviation-from professional standards and ethics is a cardinal sin in journalism. True journalists must always cling to the timeless journalistic maxim: facts are sacred, comments are free.
Last week, I sought to alert M'aan to the Rampant Mixing of hard news with Personal views by its reporters. I wrote an Arabic piece to that effect entitled ليست بريئة وعليها الالتزام بأخلاق المهنة معا" " وكالة ( The M'aan News Agency is not innocent and must abide by the ethics of the profession) in the hope that the agency would try to fix the serious flaws.
I spoke twice with an official at the agency headquarters in Bethlehem but to no avail. Eventually, M'aan, which promised to publish the article as an opinion piece, Reneged on its promise. Ostensibly, the editorial board viewed the piece too damaging to its reputation and image. But the article was published by some Palestinian newspapers and posted on several websites.
This writer can actually present HUNDREDS of examples where M'aan reporters Mixed their own views with hard news.
This is Not an exaggeration.
The mixing of hard news with personal views actually constitutes a sort of modus operandi at M'aan.
M'aan does this Every hour, Every day, Every week and Every month, either Willfully or out Ignorance or simply due to the Absence of Accountability."
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Indeed, Ma'an got this "Israel opened Dam Gates" Wrong last week.
Israel 'opens dams' flooding Gaza Strip near Deir al Balah | Maan News Agency
This was TOTALLY FALSE.
It's unchecked Hearsay/Slander that is Typical of Ma'an, MunnerLiar's MAIN source.
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