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Piers Morgan is what's wrong with media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and I can't stop watching him

JL;DR SUMMARY In a column by Rob Eshman, Piers Morgan's show "Piers Morgan Uncensored" is critiqued for its approach to discussing contentious issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Palestinian Territories
"It's hateporn addictive, and not reflective of reality. And yet Piers Morgan Uncensored and many similar YouTube- and social-media based news programs are where people increasingly get their information and engage with controversial issues like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Israel
"As far as Im concerned, the only cause is basic human decency, Morgan says in his cool British accent, If your first instinct about either report is to look for ways to smear them, you might have run out of that yourself."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Im truly shocked/disgusted that @piersmorgan would have this nutjob & clearly unwell person to go on his show and even remotely try to talk about Palestine or the war, wrote the Gazan-born activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib."
Washington D.C., Washington DC, United States
"President Ronald Reagan called The McLaughlin Group, a current affairs program that ran on public television for 34 years beginning in 1982, the political equivalent of Animal House more drunken frat house than graduate seminar."

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