Monday, March 12, 2012

Pallywood at Reuters - Another application of Reuters fauxtography

Source: R-MEW - http://r-mew.blogspot.com/2012/03/another-application-of-reuters.html

Another application of Reuters fauxtography





Reuters is notorious for its fauxtographyscandals, where photos published by the agency have been doctored in an effort to conceal or distort the facts associated with the incident portrayed (see our right side panel).Less well-recognized is that Reuters editors frequently select photos for publication that only tell one side of a story. Even more egregious, are those times when editors select photos which are entirely unrelated to the associated story.

Consider this story by Reuters historical fabricators Nidal al-Mughrabi and Allyn Fisher-Ilan about the latest round of (92) Palestinian rockets and mortars launched at civilian communities in Israel and the targeted killing of Palestinian terrorists by the Israeli military.

Reuters runs two photo slides with the story; one, of a woman in distress being supported by a man with the caption:



A Palestinian woman reacts at a hospital after an Israeli targeted attack on a car in Gaza City March 9, 2012.


The second photo is captioned:



Palestinian demonstrators run away from tear gas fired by Israeli security officers during clashes at a weekly protest against a nearby Jewish settlement, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, March 9, 2012.


A glaring illustration of a non sequitur in the context of a story about the exchange of aerial missiles between Israeli forces and Palestinian terror groups in Gaza.

No photos are provided depicting the psychological effects, property damage, or injuries sustained by Israeli civilians as a result of the Palestinian attacks.

Reuters the recidivists.

UPDATE MARCH 11, 2012:

Reuters runs another unrelated photo in this update.

Moreover, note how al-Mughrabi (please tell us why this pathological liar is still employed at the agency) obfuscates on the number of Palestinian combatants killed versus civilians:



Israeli aircraft have continued to fly attacks over the Gaza strip, killing at least 16 people, including militants, since Friday.


Depending upon source, between 94 percent and 100 percent of Palestinians killed in this exchange of fire were combatants.

By comparison, the United Nations estimates that the average ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in similar conflicts worldwide is 3:1 -- three civilians for every combatant killed.





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Thursday, February 16, 2012

The Guardian - the 100% unreliable source

The Guardian is not just 'left' like the BBC. But on the very extreme. Especially when it comes to US and Israel it has been known to be very radical and totally unreliable.





  • ANTI-ZIONIST AND ANTISEMITIC DISCOURSE ON THE GUARDIAN'S COMMENT IS FREE WEBSITE


By Hadar Sela June 7, 2010 [...] The result of the Guardian's method of moderation is two-fold. Not only does it put the onus for the reporting of antisemitic comments and the demand for their deletion via the 'report abuse' function upon those members of the general public who consider it to be their voluntary task to monitor CiF (a resource upon which the Guardian openly admits it relies), it also means that racist hate speech for example comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa or the Nazi regime is not infrequently left standing on the CiF site. Moreover, those offensive comments that are deleted often take an unacceptable amount of time to disappear and are hence read by many visitors to the site before they do.[1]





  • UK Jewish groups slam 'Guardian' for using Hamas propaganda against Israel


Jerusalem Post - Mar 25, 2009 In an article in Tuesday's Guardian, entitled 'Guardian' investigation uncovers evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes..



"This is the newspaper that reported the massacre at Jenin, which turned out to be false, and said also that Israel was high in an international league table for its murder of journalists and then failed to properly correct this patent falsehood," said Jonathan Hoffman, co-vice chairman of the Zionist Federation of the UK. "It is the paper that tolerates anti-Semitic content in its blog 'Comment Is Free,' and indeed encourages it by its choice of contributors."[2]





  • IRAN'S NETWORK SPEWS


24-HR. TV NEWS HAS NO SEX, BUT LIES & VIDEO Last Updated: 5:00 AM, July 5, 2007 Posted: 5:00 AM, July 5, 2007 [...] Another article blames the United States and Israel for stirring up violence between Fatah and Hamas in Gaza. Washington's fingerprints are all over the chaos that has hit Palestinians and the last thing they need now is an envoy called Blair. Wait a minute. That piece came out of The Guardian newspaper in Britain. PressTV is in good company. [3]



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Saturday, September 10, 2011

MSM: 'Ordinary' Arab-Islamic bigots are "protesters"

MSM: 'Ordinary' Arab-Islamic bigots are "protesters"



When the MSM calls 'ordinary' Islamofascism - "protest"



It's quite sickening when I watch BBC, CNN and others. Describing the anti-Israel vandals in Egypt [Sep. 2011] as "innocent protesters."



As if the 'ordinary' Islamo-Arabs lay out specific demands, certain details to be met.



Let's not skid off the truth, Israel is not welcome at all, in its entirety, even if Israel would spend the whole day giving candies to the Arabs.
Speaking of 'giving.' What exactly was the outcome when Israel gave, for example, Gaza, whereas Arab-Palestinians, never in history 'had' anything in the area - as a matter of fact? Only more Islamization, more Hamas acceptance [which was voted in following Israel's give-away] and pro-violence that targets innocent civilians, especially Israeli children. So let's not fool ourselves that Israeli's so-called "policies" are the real reasons.


Of course there will always be incidents [Arab-Palestinians have quite an easy job in creating incidents, all they have to do is shoot behind civilians upon Israelis], which will serve as matches. But the gasoline is there, "Arab children are taught hatred of the Jews from their mother's milk"* *.



Or as a writer has put it:
Their complaints are pure hypocrisy anyway. The Islamic world does not hate Israel because they care about the human rights of the Palestinians. If they cared about human rights they would have human rights in their own countries. The Islamic world hates Israel because, well, essentially because they are Jews. If they were Muslims, doing exactly the same things, no one in the Arab world would care. The main reason people focus on Israel is because it involves Jews.

Fact is, as a writer in the WSJ writes: Muslim Judeophobia is not-as is commonly claimed-a reaction to the Mideast conflict but one of its main "root causes." It has been fueling Arab rejection of a Jewish state long before Israel's creation.


Speaking of Islamism -specifically- in Egypt, Egyptian Cleric Muhammad Hussein Ya'qoub: The Jews Are the Enemies of Muslims Regardless of the Occupation of Palestine,... they are infidels



Take for example the cruel long Arab-Islamic racist boycott of Israel. Portrayed in MSM as some "activism..."
This antecedent movement is unabashedly anti-Semitic and racist, having started with a de facto boycott as early as 1922 against Jewish interests, not Israeli interests, 26 years prior to the establishment of the State of Israel.


The Arab League Council formally instated a boycott on December 2, 1945: "Jewish products and manufactured goods shall be considered undesirable to the Arab countries". That, might I remind you, is a little less than 3 years before the establishment of the State of Israel and 22 years before the "occupation" began following the 6-Day War in 1967.
The Arab-League Boycott and the modern DFI are not one in the same; however, they share the same ideological roots of racism and anti-Semitism towards anyone from Israel. During the initial years of the Arab-League Boycott, all products, whether made by Jew or Arab were boycotted...


Author:
Despite Israel's lack of importance and despite the weakness of the moral charges against it, Israel is an outcast. Israeli nationalism - Zionism - has been declared racism. The Arab League enforces secondary and tertiary boycotts against Israel. Jews may not enter Saudi Arabia, except for American soldiers. Malaysia forbids the performance of "Jewish" music. This endless policy of boycott and non-recognition is officially the policy of most Arab states. Countries like Libya... Saudi Arabia have never suggested that they would make peace if Israel did X or Y or Z. Their opposition to Israel, supported by leftists everywhere in the world, is one of permanent enmity. Since such a stance excludes the possibility of peace, it is implicitly genocidal and therefore radically evil.

In a classical example, an ardent anti-Israel "advocate", who has -for a long time- called for a boycott of Israeli goods, jumped to the next step by calling (in 2009): "Do not buy anything from businesses run by the Jewish community."


Arab cartoons portray Jews [not just "Israelis"] as non-humans. Influenced much by hate sermons along the Islamic "apes and pigs" * canard.



Best selling author:
It's about the bigotry ... Make no mistake: Arab racism is killing Jews. These bigoted myths and conspiracy theories brainwash Palestinian children to commit suicide bombings against Jews. Innocent children play death games, such as collecting "martyr" cards with pictures of suicide bombers."

The Goliath Arab-Islamic Jew-hatred [anti-Semitism] is sad, horrifying. Suffice to see some translations from Arabic in MEMRI and in ADL's documentation.* * *.


Conclusion: to the MSM, quit politicizing their deep blind hatred. There will never be peace as ,long as hate-education exist - the real problem. It may be more against Jews but it never stops there. An inscription in Arabic written on a picture of the PLO flag was drawn on a church top near the platform where the bishop spoke. It read: 'On Saturday we [the Muslims] shall kill the Jews and on Sunday we shall kill the Christians'. In fact the Muslims of the region have long referred derisively and threateningly to the 'Saturday people' and the 'Sunday people'.

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

The comment 'rejected' by pro-Arab racism of the HuffPost's moderator

The comment 'rejected' by pro-Arab racism of the HuffPost's moderator

My friend tried to post the following, it was removed by the moderaotr of the "objective" HuffingtonPost:

How dare you attack this [SWC] humane organization personally? So much for your Arabic style of buzzwords like "graveyards" as if we don't know who causes Arab civiian deaths. When is there going to be an outcry in the Arab world against Hamas/Hezbollah use of civilians to make sure Arab kids die in order to damn the Zionists? The same goes to the racist Arab "apartheid" slur on Israel's true democracy where Arabs have more than equal rights, when you count the favoritism of the 'affirnative action' system in Israel.

This, in reply to the Arab propagandist: "sas": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/sas/hypocrisy-on-parade-delta_b_886309_94833059.html


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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Biased CNN explains as "news" why Palestinians aim at children

Biased CNN explains as "news" why Palestinians aim at children


At the CNN news ticker the following title of "news" appeared today (Dec. 21, 2010): "5 hurt in rocket fire,  retaliation in southern Israel" as well as on the page: http://edition.cnn.com/MIDDLEEAST  .


The HTML copied:

<li><a href="/2010/WORLD/meast/12/21/israel.rocket.fire/index.html">5 hurt in rocket fire, retaliation, in southern Israel</a>       </li>


Though when clicking on the actual link, the content is different, as it has been altered a few times, since.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/21/israel.rocket.fire/index.html


That exact title was copied automatically on those that subscribe to CNN's feeds, e. g.: http://news.vivasoft.hu/the-news/17842-5-hurt-in-rocket-fire,-retaliation-in-southern-israel.html and http://359online.com/5-hurt-in-rocket-fire-retaliation-in-southern-israel/


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This fits very well with the Islamists-appeasement policy that whatever they do, it's just a reaction, when in fact the Arab Palestinians are always initiating the attack aimed at innocent Israelis at their homes or at kindergartens when the children are gathered there, or/and practicing the use of its own civilians.


The hidden message behind the headline which attempts almost to equate the two sides is so outrageous, as if there's some kind of moral equivalence between those that seek death and destruction for all and Israelis that struggle so hard to defend lives. So is the naiive "understanding" that when Hamas says it does something as a "retaliation," we should simply "believe" it. Since when is news media a mouthpiece for terrorists? No one should buy into it as a fact, or anything else beyond a Hamas' propaganda argument - value. Neither CNN, nor anyone else can assert as "news" what is a "retaliation" and what is in fact, an excuse.


According to this twisted CNN view, it's all a game, they are just both fighting each other, nothing about Israelis defending citizens from Palestinians seeking civilians as targets, or/and children when they go to school. Note also CNN's general ommission of the Israeli exact location 'KINDERGARTEN' repeatedly a target


Moreover, it entails a horrific cheapening of Israeli innocent lives, that they're hurt "only because of some retaliation" thing. an almost "natural" casualty of some 'tit-for-tat' myth. How dare CNN?


Again and again, CNN shows its real "news" colors, when its more of an opinion medium.


How about a simple non-opinionated news headline: "Palestinians fire at Israeli homes," or "Palestinians attack Israeli kindergartens, again." Just the facts. The truth for a change!


News Samples:


Rocket explodes near Israeli kindergarten‎

21 (UPI) -- A Qassam rocket exploded near a kibbutz kindergarten in the Ashkelon Coastal regional council Tuesday morning, the Israeli army said.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/12/21/Rocket-explodes-near-Israeli-kindergarten/UPI-11441292936139/
Qassam explodes near kindergarten - Israel News, Ynetnews
Dec 21, 2010 ... News: Rocket hits kibbutz in Ashkelon Coast Regional Council. Girl, 14, lightly injured by shrapnel; several people suffer from shock, ...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4002195,00.html


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Sunday, April 19, 2009

How the CNN & WP Legitimize murdering little chidren (by racist Arabs) on the basis of their origin - “occupation” crap

How the CNN & WP Legitimize murdering little chidren (by racist Arabs) on the basis of their origin - “occupation” crap


April, 2009


Regardless of the facts that most Palestinian Arabs are children or grandchildren of immigrants from surrounding middle eastern countries, the term “occupation” has been used by Arab leaders to wage genocidal wars since the 1960’s, never mind that the racist attacks on Jews started long before that 1960’s occupation excuse, in the 1920’s in particular (with clear declarations of “driving all Jews into the sea, “Itbach al Yahud” - AKA Kill Jews, wiping off map, you name it) .



Take a look at the difference in news reporting between the following sources, and how the radical left wingers ‘terror-appeasers’ CNN & WP “report” it.



Palestinian kills Israeli teenager with pickax Apr 2, 2009 … Play Video AP – Israeli 13-year-old killed by ax in West Bank … were arrested over a botched 2002 bombing on an Arab girls’ school in Jerusalem. … claimed responsibility for the attack in an e-mail sent to the AP.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090402/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians



FOXNews.com - Israeli Youth Killed in West Bank Ax Attack …Apr 2, 2009 … Israeli Youth Killed in West Bank Ax Attack, A Palestinian killed an … Israeli media broadcast pictures of the body of 13-year-old Shlomo Nativ, …

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512147,00.html



Israeli Youth Killed By Axe-Wielding Palestinian Attacker On …An axe wielding Palestinian attacker has killed a 13-year-old boy and wounded a …

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Israeli-Youth-Killed-By-Axe-Wielding-Palestinian-Attacker-On-Rampage-In-West-Bank-Settlement/Article/200904115254303?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_2&lid=ARTICLE_15254303_Israeli_Youth_Killed_By_Axe-Wielding_Palestinian_Attacker_On_Rampage_In_West_Bank_Settlement





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1 dead, 1 critical in occupied West Bank attack - The CNN Wire …Apr 2, 2009 … suspected Palestinian attacked two people in the occupied West Bank Thursday with a “sharp object,” killing a 13-year-old … the attacker was wielding an axe. … Suspect in girl’s death reported suitcase missing …

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/02/man-attacks-2-in-occupied-west-bank/



Young Settler Killed In West Bank Attack - washingtonpost.com Apr 2, 2009 … A Jewish settler holding a girl looks at looks at Israeli soldiers … Israeli soldiers gear up outside the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bat … JERUSALEM, April 2 — An attacker with an ax killed a 13-year-old boy and …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/02/AR2009040200469.html



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Unlike their counterparts, Israeli Jewish kids are NOT used as shields to cause their deaths, but are targeted routinely by Arab Muslims purely simply because they belong to Jewish roots (try to get the UN against racism in Durban to pass a resolution ‘Arab terror = racism!’. that is if the UN can get off its shackles of Arab oil lobby...


How on earth can anybody buy Jihadists’ propaganda that they target little kids with axes, knives, machine guns, Qassam-missiles, suicide-bombings, as ”protesting the occupation”?



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Monday, March 23, 2009

What is bias in the middle east conflict? [March, 2009]


What is bias in the middle east conflict? [March, 2009]




Arabs’ racist killing (specifically) Jews *, is accepted “freedom fighting’'.


Israelis worried of Arab terror *, branded as “racists”.


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War crimes, crimes against humanity by Palestinian Arab leadership - regime in Gaza * * * of using Arab civilians, making sure their kids die, for the “greater good (Jihadi-fascism’s goodness) of making Israel look bad…” * * * * * * *, using hospitals *, schools, UN medical vehicles * *, even aid material sent by humanitarian Israel * for murder, targeting at Israeli civilians, - shoved aside, ignored *.


Israel’s humane army’s extreme measures not to hit civilians (including 250,000 warning phone calls to Arab residents to evacuate a particular area designated to be included in an op., knowing full well terrorists can cease the opportunity and flea, as well as risking young soldiers’ lives in going door to door) * * * * aiming only at Hamas terrorists is denounced of “random shooting” and “war crimes”.


*


[Arab led pressure forcing Israel to conduct] Uprooting Jews from their homes and their ancestors’, AKA Transfer * * AKA Arab Palestinian Apartheid * is “good for peace”.


Transfer of Arabs (who don’t have more than 2 or 3 generations of history in Judea / Israel / Palestine * * * *) is “apartheid, fascist and racist” * (AKA Avigdor Lieberman).


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While Hamas or even “Moderate” Fatah refuses to recognize Israel *, international aid is flowing their way.


UN is “busy” condemning Israel * * on whatever is being told (forced) by the global Arab Muslim oil lobby.




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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Arabist BBC lost its credibility years ago… (abu rabu family?)

Arabist BBC lost its credibility years ago… (what now?, abd rabu family?)

More Fake taers from Pallywood.

Arabist BBC lost its credibility years ago…

Yesterday (Jan 21, 2009), BBC’s gimmick was about a girl, a drama invented by Pallywood.

All the sources the BBC quoted was the Hamas-nick “father” (of a wounded girl) and other family (’Abd Rabou’) members, that they “saw” with their own eyes how the Israeli soldiers shot at them and eating chocolate & potato chips.
(Come to think of it, How can you shoot and eat at the same time? Or...
Have you seen an average person with an average tatse eatubg salty chips and sweet chocolate at the asme time?,
Never mind!).

As if the world hasn’t seen enough Pallywood fake reports and fake images?
Now, “based” on the story told by the family, the terrible biased BBC has taken and reported it as a “fact”.


But of course you never see the real facts in the middle east conflict, like of those Hamas Jihadists how they mingle with civilians to cause casualties, or any Israeli kids injured from Palestinians, because Israel does not exist as human beings in BBC’s vocabulary, all Israeli kids are all of a sudden “tanks” - while Palestinian Jiahdists are all “civilians”.

Any more fake tears out of Pallywood?

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Sunday, January 04, 2009

MSM, stop showing the images! stop rewarding Jihadists’ tricks in causing Arab civilians’ deaths!

MSM, stop showing the images! stop rewarding Jihadists’ tricks in causing Arab civilians’ deaths!

Hey, BBC, CNN, Stop showing again and again ‘Pallywood’ TV from Gaza of Arab children killed due to Arab adults’ using them as cannon fodders.

Jan 2009

Operation: Cast Lead

Islamic butchers know all too well they succeed toying with their kids on their death cult’s death beds, no matter how you will explain the real cause how their civilians die, they are experienced in the power of ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ when it comes to blooded Arab bodies.

What is the responsibility of the MSM BBC, CNN in serving the conveyer of these orchestrated images, Images that enrage the world against Israel who is nothing but a defender of it’s people?

The media owe’s itself the professionalism not to show these images.


1) One can not take ‘Palestinian’ word for anything, much less about accuracy of photos or numbers of the so called “civilians’, we have been here before [we still remember the inflated "numbers" in Jenin including added bodies].


2) These images influence anyone’s mind (or heart), it is the most horrendous form of bias!



3) By showing these photos you guys are aiding Islamic Hamas (like Hezbollah), which is to bring about dead Arab kids to parade with them on world stage.


4) Moreover it is you who is (also) fueling Jihadism’s best tool of: “We Muslims are victims of the west”.

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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Congratulations CNN’s Ben Wederman, you’re officially Genocidal Hamas’ “man”

Congratulations CNN’s Ben Wederman, you’re officially Genocidal Hamas’ “man”


On CNN Andersen Cooper ‘AC360′ (http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/ ) (Jan 2, 2009), Ben Wedermnan was asked the real question of the day, “what about the fact that Hamas uses civilians areas to fire from there their missiles, aren’t they the real culprit in Arab civilian losses?” Ben Wederman: “Hamas is a political grass roots” Israel has to come to terms with that.


AC again then refocused the question, Ben Wederman; Hamas is “IN” the civilan population, it’s a political grass roots movement that is embedded within the Palestinians.


Amazing (unlike on Foxnews) no one seems to stress out at CNN what “political grassroots” Hamas is really all about. In any case, Jihadist Islamic Hamas, has a good spokesperson for their bloody action aided by hiding their real annihilation agenda.


Hamas in its own words - The Hamas charter calls for the extermination of Jews as well as the destruction of Israel as an Islamic necessity.

http://www.pmw.org.il/tv-hamas.htm


Well, I don’t know about CNN’s Wederman but… ‘If someone (like Al Qeada, Hezbolah, Hamas, Jemaa Islamyia, Lashkar Jihad, Taliban, etc.), tells you he is gonna kill you, you better believe him!’



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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

CNN “sees” with ears - Karl Penhaul says he “saw” from the captain’s mouth what happened to the anti Israel propaganda boat called “free gaza”

CNN “sees” with ears - Karl Penhaul says he “saw” from the captain’s mouth what happened to the anti Israel propaganda boat called “free gaza”

CNN’s Karl Penhaul says he “saw” from the captain’s mouth what happened to the anti Israel propaganda boat called “free gaza”

Seeing is not believing at CNN.

Propaganda boat

Suffice to say that anti Israel bigots like: Cynthia McKinney and Jimmy Carter “star” in this tarnishing Israel campaign under a blanket of providing humanitarian aid to Gaza, in other words, it’s a good trick to show how “bad” Israel is.
You can’t really tell from the pictures if there is more “food” or cameras everywhere, after all it’s MAINLY a CAMERAS oriented boat, humanitarian? Kidding me? just try tell those busy people to convince one Palestinian Hamas adult not to shoot rockets from a civilian room into an Israeli room…

The accident

Drama on High Seas: Navy Stops Pro-Arab Boat
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129112

Let’s see, Israel claim that the infamous propaganda boat was hit accidental amid disobeying Israeli security warnings, but CNN’s Mr. Penhaul was on the ‘propaganda boat’ (what for?, oops sorry, it is a media-show boat after all…), he says that it is not true, but that he “saw” the Israeli boat ramming intentionally into it, when he elaborated on it he only told CNN about what the captain of this fiasco boat “told” him…


More on CNN’s this morning’s alleged boat ramming.http://www.youtube.com/v/8ceyIHaLXoA&hl=en&fs=1

All he “saw” was what he “heard” from that capitan which like the entire boat idea is a great Hamastan publicity stunt.

Oh boy, if seeing is believing, apparently CNN has a different physiology when it comes to any of the human senses, logical sense included.

More on the Propaganda boat

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ipc_e005.htm

http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2008/07/the-isms-big-boat-trip/

On Cynthia McKinney

On Cynthia McKinney’s Jewish problem.
http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/07/27/mckinneys-jewish-problem/

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed outrage over the incident last evening in which members of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney’s security entourage
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4869_12.htm



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Friday, November 14, 2008

The "objectivity" of media stationed at dangerous undemocratic places like "Palestinian areas"

The "objectivity" of media stationed at dangerous undemocratic places like "Palestinian areas"

The problem of trust in journalism - journalists situated in dangerous zones, where they are dictated to 'live' (or die...) by and report by the dictatorships they are located at.

Watching CNN Correspondents [http://www.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/intl.correspondents/ Nov. 14, 2008], there was a report (regarding the Congo war / genocide) about journalists in Africa having to pay large sums to get access, explaining why certain journalists allied to be with bad guys.

(such as being associated with Nkunda the butcher (D.R. Congo: Arrest Laurent Nkunda For War Crimes http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/31/congo12579.htm - Portrait of a Laurent Nkunda, the happy killer from the Congo National Post, Canada - Nov 6, 2008 You don't often get good pictures of maniacal butchers any more, but here's a great shot of General Laurent Nkunda, leader of the National Congress http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/11/06/portrait-of-a-laurent-nkunda-the-happy-butcher-of-the-congo.aspx.).

More worrisome was the description of a mafia like environment, where such thugs provides "security" for journalists, with all the terrible implication this "protectionism" entails.

The question is of course how can anyone take a "report" seriously when it's done by those stationed in the terrorist no-law land like west bank & Gaza at 'Palestine' terrorizing authority, imagine if you could have obtained a recording where the PA authority (that has a bloody history of threatening journalists foreign or even 'Palestinian' ones) tells Ben Wederman of the CNN openly and bluntly: 'You better report in the "strict" line of our propaganda only, or else you have no place here!' alternatively, how can any logical person not prefer a report done by the Israeli democratic free press side?

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