An instructive behind-the-scenes look at the day-to-day operations of the Palestinian Authority’s official radio station. We follow correspondents crossing Israeli checkpoints, denied access to hotspots or reporting live on demonstrations and suicide bombings. The film provides insight into the choices and dilemmas faced at newsroom conferences and the emotional toll on journalists forced to confront, digest and convey daily horrors. It raises interesting questions about the partiality of media coverage in the Middle East. Do radio stations such as this offer their listeners a meaningful alternative source of news, especially in terms of story selection, emphasis, and context, when official statements, recycled by the local and international media, tamper with the truth? Or are they guilty of biased reporting in the name of a just cause?


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