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It is perhaps less risky to fill three minutes with gruesome post-mortems than to film Hamas fighters in their tracks, but it is not reporting. Preying on human emotions as a proxy for journalism, even where sprinkled with facts, may be good for ratings – like fear and sex — but it has turned too much of the coverage out of Gaza into little more than snuff with a halo..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philippe-assouline/pornography-of-pain-why-t_b_5639741.html – 8/1/2014.

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