Are you kidding?

The International Federation of Journalists has expelled the Israeli branch after refusing to allow it to pay the same reduced amount of dues levied on neighboring countries, such as Jordan.... The liberal-leaning New York Jewish Forward noted that the expulsion... "raised the specter of another effort by international unions to boycott Israel for political reasons."... The Federation has had an anti-Israeli bias in the Middle East for some time, but the turning point was its condemnation of Israel's bombing of the Hizbullah-backed Al Manar television... The Federation "refused to understand that Al Manar is not exactly a superb media outlet," said Shibi... [their] anti-Israeli bias also was clear when it sent Arab journalists to investigate the accidental killing of a Gaza-based photographer for Reuters during counterterrorist operations in Gaza. "No one talked with any Israeli journalists," Shibi pointed out.

Iran is the world's leader in jailing journalists:

In just the last 13 days since the disputed June 12 election, Iran has become the world's leading jailer of journalists. A report released Tuesday by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran listed the names of 23 Iranian journalists who have been arrested and detained by the government.

They beat the former editor of a leading newspaper into a coma:

Reporters Without Borders is very worried about imprisoned journalist Saeed Hajjarian, the former editor of the newspaper Sobh-e-Emrouz, who was taken to hospital on the evening of 3 July, apparently in a coma. Hajjarian was arrested at his Tehran home on the night of 15 June despite being badly handicapped. His wife [and his doctor] have written an open letter to the authorities calling for his release. "He must not remain in prison if you want him to stay alive," they say in the letter.

And that's not even counting the arrest of Saberi, who went from being a journalist to getting ransomed by the regime in exchange for IRG agents who targeted our troops in Iraq.

But it's Israel that's violating journalistic norms. You don't think that there's something else - something other than level-headed analysis and strict ethical reasoning - bubbling up from from beneath the surface? That would be really unseemly.

References:
* International Journalists Union Expels Israel [A7]
* Iran: Now the world's leader in jailing journalists [LAT]
* Iran - A foreign reporter freed, but jailed Iranian journalist is reportedly hospitalised in coma [Newswire]
* Iran: Journalist's Conviction Tainted by Secrecy [HRW]
* The 9th of July, the 18th of Tir [Ledeen]

Previously:
* IHT Publishes Repugnant Sophisticated Excuses For Legally Mandated Iranian Sexism
* Just A Reminder: Arab Media Is A Cesspool Of Genocidal Anti-Semitic Incitement
* Reuters: Hamas Delegation Off To Iran To Talk About Their Awesome Awesomeness