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Interview | Journalist Stephanie Gutmann on press bias in the Middle East and how the internet is providing a remedy | Marvin Olasky

Two subjects of interest to many WORLD subscribers, press bias and the survival of Israel, come together in Stephanie Gutmann's The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for Media Supremacy (Encounter Books, 2005). Ms. Gutmann, a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism who has written for publications ranging from The New Republic to Cosmopolitan, readably but carefully covers the propaganda war against Israel from 2000 to 2004 and the complicity of leading U.S. media in it.

WORLD: The Other War has a great cover photo of a young Palestinian apparently throwing a rock on cue as two dozen photographers snapped pictures. Did the opportunity to be a star motivate staged action?