As I see all these deep dives into how Israel got the pagers and walkie-talkies (can we just call them boom boxes?) into hezbollah, it reminds me of just how little actual journalism takes place in places like Lebanon.
Good for Filkins to be one of the very few to go there, and do these sorts of deeper dives. It doesn't surprise me to hea…
As I see all these deep dives into how Israel got the pagers and walkie-talkies (can we just call them boom boxes?) into hezbollah, it reminds me of just how little actual journalism takes place in places like Lebanon.
Good for Filkins to be one of the very few to go there, and do these sorts of deeper dives. It doesn't surprise me to hear hezbollah has 12 year old recruits or that the younger fighters want to go right into Israel or that hezbollah was making large investments in tunnels 20 years ago (and likely still today). But just try to get the nytimes or wapo or any other major news group to dig for that story. They'll spend huge resources on the boom box story -- and just nothing on what's really going on in Lebanon.
As I see all these deep dives into how Israel got the pagers and walkie-talkies (can we just call them boom boxes?) into hezbollah, it reminds me of just how little actual journalism takes place in places like Lebanon.
Good for Filkins to be one of the very few to go there, and do these sorts of deeper dives. It doesn't surprise me to hear hezbollah has 12 year old recruits or that the younger fighters want to go right into Israel or that hezbollah was making large investments in tunnels 20 years ago (and likely still today). But just try to get the nytimes or wapo or any other major news group to dig for that story. They'll spend huge resources on the boom box story -- and just nothing on what's really going on in Lebanon.