So the Guardians’s got this story up, titled War fails to dim Hizbullah’s beacon (picturesque, we know). And it’s about how Hezbollah’s journalists are still managing to get the story out despite Israel having bombed them a lot:
Terror group’s scatterred journalists feed stories through hidden studios. Ibrahim Farhad is in a strange predicament. He can happily talk about the television station he works for – al Manar, Hizbullah’s privately owned mouthpiece. The problem is, he can’t say where it is. “Honestly, I have no idea where we broadcast from,” says the black-clad public relations manager with a smile. “And even if I did, I couldn’t tell you.” Infused with the same secrecy and iron discipline as Hizbullah itself, al Manar – “the beacon” in Arabic – has gone underground, perhaps literally.
And the whole time we’re just thinking… “what do you mean Hezbollah’s journalists have gone underground? We have Reuters’s contact information right here.
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