REVIEW: Contrasting Al Jazeera’s forensic October 7 report with TVNZ’s Tame interview

Review of October 7 (Documentary), directed by Richard Sanders; and Israeli-Hamas War: Israeli Ambassador on rising deaths in Gaza (Video), presented by Jack Tame

  • Malcolm Evans Cartoonist, Tāmaki Makaurau
Keywords: fairness, cartoons, Gaza, investigative journalism, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, reviews, television, TVNZ

Abstract

October 7, directed by Richard Sanders, Al Jazeera Investigations (Documentary); Israeli-Hamas War: Israeli Ambassador on rising deaths in Gaza,TVNZ Q&A with Jack Tame (Current Affairs).

FOR a more informed report of what actually took place when Hamas fighters broke through the perimeter fences surrounding Gaza to attack Israel on 7 October 2023, Al Jazeera’s hour-long documentary, October 7, which was broadcast on March 20, exposed the lies of the Israeli/US propaganda machine, and has been pivotal in transforming the Palestine/Israel narrative and so too the politics of the Middle East.

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Author Biography

Malcolm Evans, Cartoonist, Tāmaki Makaurau

Always happiest with a pencil in his hand, Malcolm Evans has been a professional cartoonist since the 1960s. Approaching that milestone himself now, he tells everyone he is 28 and often behaves like someone half that age. Since first cartooning for the Bay of Plenty Times in his hometown of Tauranga where he had started work in the advertising department, Evans worked as a cartoonist in England before joining the New Zealand Herald in 1970. After succeeding Sir Gordon Minnhinnick in 1976, Evans left the Herald in 1978. he later drew cartoons for the New Zealand Herald again for a period and was NZ Cartoonist of the Year in 1999.

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Published
01-06-2024
How to Cite
Evans, M. (2024). REVIEW: Contrasting Al Jazeera’s forensic October 7 report with TVNZ’s Tame interview: Review of October 7 (Documentary), directed by Richard Sanders; and Israeli-Hamas War: Israeli Ambassador on rising deaths in Gaza (Video), presented by Jack Tame. Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 30(1and2), 267-269. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v30i1and2.1363