The truth about life as a foreign correspondent

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Dutch journalist Joris Luyendijk was excited when he first scored a job as a foreign corresondent in the Middle East. He soon learned that the West didn’t want to hear about what life was lreally ike in the Arab world – they just wanted the same old cliched stories and his job was to produce them. Disillusioned he wrote a book about his experiences – “Fit To Print”.

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