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To: Sully- who wrote (20630)	6/21/2006 4:45:38 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

How the media ignores their atrocities Betsy's Page Judith Apter Klinghoffer has a great post on how the media tends to downplay the atrocities of the terrorists in Iraq and the Palestinians. She points to the lack of coverage to the bombing of a home for the elderly in Basra. <<< Just imagine how different the response would have been if an Israeli or American artillery shell had been the culprit. Actually, you do not need to imagine. The extreme rush to judgment by both MSM and HRW is there for all to see as is their extreme disinterest in the mendacity of Islamist terror. Indeed, it would be accurate to say that both MSM and the Human Rights community is involved in a major struggle to convince the world of the essential moral equivalence between democracies and terrorist organizations(tyrannies are presented as morally superior put upon "moderates.") They do so by focusing on the imagined or real transgressions of democracies and by covering up the purposeful viciousness of the terrorists. Think. When was the last time you saw the NYT show a picture of a summary executions in the public square of Palestinian or Iraqi "collaborators?" >>> Good question. Klinghoffer points out how the media should know by now how the terrorists have worked media manipulation into their tactical plans, but the media somehow doesn't like to mention that in their coverage. <<< Furthermore, despite repeated proof of terrorists media manipulation, MSM reports their charges without the same caveats it routinely attaches to Israeli, British or American reports. Indeed, they take advantage of the careful pronouncement "we are investigating" democratic officials are forced to make to run with unproven charges. By the time the results of the investigation are revealed the damage is not only done but findings which fail to substantiate the early charges are either ignored, dismissed as cover ups or relegated to the back corner of page 25. >>> Just imagine how coverage would be altered if every single story about an atrocity committed in Iraq or Israel was framed with mention of how the terrorists are hoping to manipulate public opinion through such outrages. Instead, the media is more likely to pair their coverage of atrocities with some story that makes either the Americans or Israelis look bad in order to draw their own moral equivalence. Read the rest of her post. She has several examples and some great analysis of the hypocrisy of the media and human rights organizations. betsyspage.blogspot.com hnn.us

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