Covering the Syrian conflict: How Middle East reporters deal with challenging situations

摘要: Reporters covering the Middle East are often confronted with situations where information is notoriously hard to verify and confrontations witnesses’ harsh realities can be extraordinarily intense. How does one deal claims that there no chemical weapons in Syria, for instance, if foreign visitors allowed enter neighbourhoods attacks allegedly took place? And how far go adopting or contextualizing story of a crying little girl blaming ‘terrorists’ destroying her life you taken by regime official, who considers every form opposition an act terror? Under such conditions, reporters hardly rely upon seemingly self-evident routines, nor they simply revert general values as impartiality bearing witness without much further ado. Instead, find themselves forced make judgements on particular time again. Based 14 in-depth interviews Dutch Flemish t...