FREE HELLO EVERYBODY!: ONE JOURNALISTS SEARCH FOR TRUTH IN THE MIDDLE EAST PDF Joris Luyendijk | 256 pages | 27 May 2010 | Profile Books Ltd | 9781846683848 | English | London, United Kingdom Het zijn net mensen: beelden uit het Midden-Oosten by Joris Luyendijk Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Het zijn net mensen by Joris Luyendijk. Het zijn net mensen: beelden uit het Midden-Oosten by Joris Luyendijk. Vijf jaar lang was Joris Luyendijk correspondent voor de Arabische wereld. Hij liep vluchtelingenkampen af en sloppenwijken, joodse nederzettingen en fundamentalistische bolwerken. Hij sprak met terroristen en bezetters, met slachtoffers, daders en Hello Everybody!: One Journalists Search for Truth in the Middle East familie. Hij doorstond beschietingen en bombardementen, doodsbedreigingen en zelfmoordaanslagen, bezetting, terreur en oor Vijf jaar lang was Joris Luyendijk correspondent voor de Arabische wereld. Hij doorstond beschietingen en bombardementen, doodsbedreigingen en zelfmoordaanslagen, bezetting, terreur en oorlog… Hoe meer hij zelf meemaakte, hoe meer het begon te knagen. Want wat gaapte er een kloof tussen wat hij als correspondent met eigen ogen zag, en wat hij daarvan kon laten zien op radio, tv en in de krant. In Het zijn net mensen probeert Luyendijk iets van die kloof te dichten. Met pakkende voorbeelden en vol humor Hello Everybody!: One Journalists Search for Truth in the Middle East hij uit waarom het zo moeilijk is om iets van het Midden-Oosten te begrijpen, en welke rol de massamedia daarin spelen. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Het zijn net mensenplease sign up. Did this book age well? I'm just sceptic about reading a politics book 10 years after this publication. Stephanie Josine I think so. A lot of it is more about human nature, bias, the practical implications of living in a dictatorship, and the charade of news media - thes …more I think so. A lot of it is more about human nature, bias, the practical implications of living in a dictatorship, and the charade of news media - these things are timeless truths. That said, I'm really curious about the impact of the Arab Spring on the information landscape in the places where this book is set. See 1 question about Het zijn net mensen…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Het zijn net mensen: beelden uit het Midden-Oosten. I read this book to preview it for possible inclusion in a reading series about war and peace in the Middle East. It's the kind Hello Everybody!: One Journalists Search for Truth in the Middle East book I almost certainly wouldn't have picked up otherwise - it's nonfiction about politics in the Middle East. I don't really have a political brain and I find it difficult and tedious, and frankly, boring to follow the intricacies of this particular sport. But Luyendijk's book is different. He is a former M. He stepped away from journalism to reflect on the huge gap between what is actually happening in the region and what is reported in the media. He explains the reasons for the difference in clear and convincing terms. His analysis of the media machine is both insightful and damning. Read this if you care about the U. Read it if you think you don't care about the U. Either way, it is a thought-provoking yet readable book. A note about why you may not have heard of this book: This book was originally published inin Dutch. The Hello Everybody!: One Journalists Search for Truth in the Middle East translation came out in with an afterword by the author. He mentions that while the book sold an amazing quarter million copies in the Netherlands and was well received in Denmark, France, Germany and Australia, it has been ignored in the U. Of course, I always have to take WorldCat holdings with a grain of salt. My academic library's copy - which I have in hand - isn't reflected there yet. It's a new acquisition and I'm not sure how frequently WorldCat holdings are updated. But still If you're a librarian, order this book! It should be on shelves. Update February Hello, Everybody! View 1 comment. Sep 15, Jan Hidders rated it it was amazing. A great little book. In my opinion a must-read for anyone who would like to claim to have an informed opinion on the situation in the Middle East. It is written in a very personal and fluent style, which makes it a very pleasant read. Although short, it is a very informative book about the difficulties that Joris experienced as a reporter in the Middle East while attempting to report as objectively and honestly as possible. Through a combination of personal anecdotes and additional background inf A great little book. Through a combination of personal anecdotes and additional background information he shows why this is next to impossible. He mentions several factors such as the local dictatorial regimes that make normal news gathering impossible, Western prejudices, the way that modern mass media filters certain Hello Everybody!: One Journalists Search for Truth in the Middle East of news, but also the differences in competence of the involved parties in executing effective media policies. These are all things that most of us already were at least vaguely aware of, but it is still very confronting to see these mechanisms directly at work in this book. A strong reminder that we cannot take the objectivity of our media for granted. This book is by a more experienced journalist and has a much bigger scope both in terms of history and geography, but it shares the almost palpable anger and frustration about the whole situation. I can also recommend this book, especially if you are interested in more "on the ground stories" by reporters in the Arab world. It is however very thick, and as such per page not very informative, but this is compensated by a very direct and personal writing style that clearly shows his personal involvement and the spectacular anecdotes such as his interview with Bin Laden or the time he was all but lynched by a mob of Afghan refugees in Hello Everybody!: One Journalists Search for Truth in the Middle East. Foreign correspondence, especially that reportage from the Middle East and other redoubts of dictatorship, is a house of cards. People Like Ushowever, is more than a simple accounting of his time on the ground. Readers might be forgiven for looking to another more influential critic of the news business, the former New Yorker journalist A. The rest is publicity. Luyendijk writes about his former profession in the same jaded way that an ex-wife might air out the dirty laundry of her former spouse. And though one sided, his account is refreshingly forthright in a way that a current journalist could never be. He very candidly describes his inability to reestablish friendships with ordinary Egyptians that he had met while earlier studying at university there. He says that absent those work-a-day relationships, it was impossible for him to report norms, only distortions. Rather than being a participant- observer, in the classic model of anthropology, he was doomed to be only a removed onlooker. Being likened to an anthropologist may be the highest form of praise any journalist can receive. But in reading People Like Us it becomes readily apparent that the discipline of anthropology may even be a more appropriate course of study than journalism school for aspiring foreign reporters. One suspects that his remove from those people he was reporting about is not unique to journalists, but to diplomats as well. At the Hello Everybody!: One Journalists Search for Truth in the Middle East time, Luyendijk has a playful and light-hearted streak when it comes to his work. In another moment, he relates how he would playfully mock his Palestinian interlocutors who suspected that a Jewish conspiracy could explain media coverage of the region. His examples Hello Everybody!: One Journalists Search for Truth in the Middle East from the Sudanese showing melted pill bottles at a pharmaceutical factory just struck by a U. With convincing detail, he describes the media life cycle of a terrorist attack in Israel and also quotes a U. Robert McChesney, the noted scholar of American mass media might argue that the root of the problem lies not with editors, but with the corporatization of the news business. Others, such as National Public Radio reporter and media critic Brooke Gladstone, have suggested that we get the media we deserve, and that it is a reflection of ourselves. They demanded the dismantlement of the secret Western bank accounts in which dictators hoard their loot, and chanted slogans against the generous commissions that Western defense companies pay out to dictators and their entourages. 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