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"n The Listening Post this week: behind the Rohingya crisis, a vicious media campaign has steadily intensified the pressure on an embattled people. Plus, the media black hole in Sinai, Egypt.
Rohingya: Hate speech, lies and media misinformation
The number of majority Muslim Rohingya forced from their homes in Myanmar is now around 400,000. The United Nations says it looks like a "textbook example" of ethnic cleansing.
The country?s de facto leader - a former winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and darling of the international news media - is being seen in an entirely new light. Aung San Suu Kyi and her government are on the defensive. She has taken to talking about fake news and a "huge iceberg of misinformation".
Aung San Suu Kyi?s refusal to condemn the violence is a troubling angle for many Western journalists to cover, given the way they have venerated her in the past..."
Source/publisher:
Aljazeera (Listening Post)
Date of Publication:
2017-09-16
Date of entry:
2017-09-19
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English