You'd like to believe that if reporters are being physically threatened into presenting a particular message - well, you'd hope that they would find a way to push back. At the very least, one would expect that journalists would do something other than wholeheartedly embrace the thugs who are threatening and attacking them. But as we've known for decades - and has CAMERA just got done explaining today - reporters physically coerced by Israel's Arab enemies end up endorsing and passing on those enemies' anti-Israel propaganda. Whether its through confiscating cameras, attacking reporters, or taking hostages - everyone from the PLO to Hezbollah has managed to control the press coming out of south Lebanon.

There's almost certainly going to be some kind of conflict in Southern Lebanon this summer, and you can be quite sure that the press will do their level best to match the mendacity with which they approached last summer's war. Prof. Marvin Kalb explains how Hezbollah simply outclassed - both institutionally and through violence - the self-appointed gatekeepers of the wold's information stream:

Had Palestinian thugs managed to grab two or three more cameras on 9/11, the world would never have known about Palestinians dancing in the streets. Had Iraq not been liberated from Saddam Hussein, we never would have known how CNN suppressed knowledge of torture rooms and mass murders. Just imagine what we'll know about Hezbollah after the next war ends.

Not that actual suppression of news matters. There are literally photographs and satellite pictures of Hezbollah using roadblocks to trap civilian human shields and firing at Israel from civilian areas - and Salon still published an article praising and admiring Hezbollah for keeping civilians out of the conflict. So honestly, we're not sure why Hezbollah even bothers suppressing the news anyway.

References:
* Hamas May Be Suppressing the News -- So What's New? [CAMERA]
* How Hezbollah Manipulated The World [DsuperJew / YouTube]
* Hezbollah Unit in Tyre Trapping Civilians To Use As Human Shields [MR]
* Exclusive IDF Videos Show Hezbollah Shelling Israel From Civilian Areas [MR]
* Here's the Thing About the Anti-Israel Media: They Lie - Hezbollah Hides Among Civilians Edition [MR]

Previously:
* Siniora Asks International Media to Transmit Pictures of Israeli Atrocities. Which Is Kind of Like Asking Us to Keep Making Fun of Carter.
* Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win
* Hezbollah Threatens Tel Aviv - MR Gives You Tomorrow’s Pro-Hezbollah Media Spin Today