Never, ever trust the media, regardless of the source. I know you have a special place in your heart for Sy Hersh, whom you consider the purest of the pure. However, this article did a terrific job of highlighting his errors and, in my opinion, his lack of journalistic integrity.
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The most egregious recent example is highlighted in the current issue of The Atlantic Magazine. It deals with the apparent falsehood of the Mohammed Al-Dura. You might recall it, the alleged shooting of a child by an Israel troop who were guarding a settlement while he was protected by his father. The shooting has captured Islamic imagination like nothing else proving, for all time, the fact that Israelis are monsters.
Unfortunately, it's a story in search of facts. Someone took a forensic look at the evidence and concluded that it was impossible for the Israelis to have shot the child. A lot of very odd things about the incident as well, such as the fact tht the child was supposedly shot in the early afternoon. Videos of the funeral, which supposedly took place later that afternoon, show shadows consistent with a noon or late morning funeral.
The clear implication of the story is that the shooting was staged. It probably was. Try to convince a die-hard Islamist. There is a terrific aversion to any kind of truth in the Islamic parts of the ME.
This is a pretty good place to start looking at the issue:
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The Beeb was incredibly biased, CNN was biased, Fox was biased......Al-Jazeera was a joke.
The only way to get to what might be the semblance of the truth is to look at all of them with a jaundiced eye and distill the truth from the reports as best one can. |
