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Media institutions have an obligation to report truthfully and fearlessly and especially now while covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, writes
Iqbal Jassat.
Renowned journalist John Pilger recounts that during 2003 following the invasion of Iraq, he interviewed Charles Lewis, fellow distinguished American investigative journalist.
The question he put to him was, "What if the freest media in the world had seriously challenged George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and investigated their claims, instead of channelling what turned out to be crude propaganda?"
He replied that if journalists had done their job, there was a good chance that "...We would not have gone to war in Iraq."