from RT
A CBS News journalist set himself on fire at a pro-Palestinian protest
near the White House on Saturday. In a blog post written beforehand, the
man said that he was self-immolating to protest media “misinformation” about Israel’s war in Gaza.
Video
footage shared on social media showed the man lighting his left arm on
fire, before police officers and bystanders surrounded him and
extinguished the blaze with water and a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh
headdress.
“We spread the misinformation,” he screamed afterwards, followed by “I’m a journalist and I said it was okay.”
The
man was later identified as Samuel Mena, a photojournalist with CBS
affiliate network KTVK/KPHO in Arizona. The network said that Mena was “off duty and not in Washington on station business” at the time of the incident, and that he would be sacked for breaching company policy on “objectivity and neutrality.”
In a lengthy blog post published before the incident, Mena complained at
having to describe the war in Gaza as a conflict between Israel and
Hamas, when the majority of its victims have been civilians.
“How
many Palestinians were killed that I allowed to be branded as Hamas?
How many men, women, and children were struck with a missile cosigned by
the American media?” he wrote...
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