Kijk, daar hebben we meer aan, dan dat suffe gemuts van het niveau Hans Teeuwen: In The Rise of Islamic State, Cockburn attempts to disentangle the most recent mess in the Middle East – the semi-collapse of the Syrian and Iraqi states and the renaissance of violent jihadism in the form of Isis, a group he was writing about months before their extraordinary gains in summer 2014 captured the world’s attention. [...] Cockburn: To have an effective terrorist attack, you require the complicity of governments – through creating an overreaction, the collective punishment of communities that are deemed to be responsible, torture, wars and so on. This is true whether it’s the American government after 9/11, or the tsarist government at the end of the 19th century. [...] The idea that journalism can ever be completely free from the prejudices of its practitioners is a fiction, and the way to deliver trustworthy reporting is to be honest about what those prejudices are. Everybody has an agenda in that they have things that they think are true and things that they think are important, and vice versa. There’s a sort of pretence that it’s not so, and that’s fine, but one should also make clear in writing where one’s coming from. That should be apparent.
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