People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East 9781282487598, 1282487590, 978-1-593-76354-1, 1593763549

In People Like Us, which became a bestseller in Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five years as a correspo

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9781282487598, 1282487590, 978-1-593-76354-1, 1593763549

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Table of contents :
Content: Hello everybody! --
Journalism for beginners --
No news --
Donor darlings and a Hitler cocktail --
Hamiha haramiha --
All the new that's fit to print --
September 11 and the blank spots in the dictatorship --
A new world --
The law of the scissors --
"They are killing innocent Jews" --
A bloody occupation --
The middleman's dilemma --
Absurd and bizarre --
New puppets, old strings --
"There's money in the flag."

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