1 Nov 2023

Midweek Mediawatch - Gaps in Gaza coverage

From Mediawatch, 8:58 pm on 1 November 2023

Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. 
This week Hayden Donnell talks to Mark Leishman about media coming under fire reporting the war in Gaza - and the low profile of it in the news here. Also sympathy for founders of Supie after its surprisingly sudden collapse (but not so much for its workers); a 'wake' for Twitter; scepticism of alarming claims about Otago University initiations - and an embarrassing double-up by a major paper.  

A Palestinian man points at destruction as people inspect the damage following overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip's Jabalia refugee camp on October 11, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Hamas movement. The death toll from five days of ferocious fighting between Hamas and Israel rose sharply overnight as Israel kept up its bombardment of Gaza after recovering the dead from the last communities near the border where Palestinian militants had been holed up. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

A Palestinian man points at destruction as people inspect the damage following overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip's Jabalia refugee camp on 11 October 2023. Photo: AFP / Mahmud Hams