People like us
Subtitle: misrepresenting the Middle East
By: Joris Luyendijk ; translated by Michele Hutchison.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781593762568
Subjects: Luyendijk, Joris, -- 1971- -- Travel -- Middle East; Mass media -- Political aspects -- Western countries; Foreign correspondents -- Middle East -- Biography; Reporters and reporting -- Netherlands -- Biography; Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-; Middle East -- Social conditions; Middle East -- In mass media; Middle East -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography
Work titles: Zijn net mensen.
Notes: Translation of: Het zijn net mensen.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244).
Table of contents: title: Hello everybody!; title: Journalism for beginners; title: No news; title: Donor darlings and a Hitler cocktail; title: Hamiha haramiha; title: All the new that's fit to print; title: September 11 and the blank spots in the dictatorship; title: A new world; title: The law of the scissors; title: "They are killing innocent Jews"; title: A bloody occupation; title: The middleman's dilemma; title: Absurd and bizarre; title: New puppets, old strings; title: "There's money in the flag."