Media Hypocrypsy

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull

interesting article

doesn't point out some other media hypocrycies

ie. Kana attack only killed about half the number it was initially reported to. Building was hit 7 hours before collapse, all the buildings around it were hit and no civilian casualties from them.

All sound suspicious but all the media cares about is that the israelis "murdered" 56 (actually 28) innocent civilians.

Sort of like how they reported Jenin as 500 deaths and it turned out to be something WAY lower.

Yea there are too many western journalist who were right there, witnessing what happened at Qana, including Kevin Sites of Yahoo. Go to his site on Yahoo and watch the vids.

But yes the media is bigotted - reflecting the ethnicity of its owners hello Israel Asper (owner of Canwest/Global and about a third of Canada's newspapers). Like his media collegues in the US, the Asper's are avowed Zionists and have used their media power to manipulate the issue.

Racism is "the belief that one 'racial group' is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination of power, prejudice and discrimination."

This is how the British Library defines racism on its Web site. The above definition hardly deviates from the essence of almost all definitions of the ominous concept. And, indeed, the concept is being fully utilized with Israel's onslaught against the Palestinians, and the international community and media's mild, if not accommodating response to the onslaught.

The capture of Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit is an act of self-defense. According to international law and the Geneva Conventions, he can be considered a prisoner of war, but not according to CNN, Fox News and the increasingly spineless BBC, which presents the soldier as a victim, who was "kidnapped" by Palestinian "militants" who are "affiliated" with the Hamas government.

By not challenging the Israeli narrative in any meaningful way, the uncritical media has become a tool in the hands of Israel's war strategists and their eternal concoctions.

Consider this example. An Israeli military commander tells a BBC correspondent dispatched to the border area between Israel and Gaza, that Israel intends on opening the border for "as long as it takes" to offset the humanitarian crisis developing in Gaza. The Israeli Army representative in a barefaced lie declares that the border has always been open, despite the perpetual Palestinian threat on the state of Israel. The BBC correspondent thanks him and signs off.

Is it possible that the BBC is unaware of the fact that Gaza has been under a strict military siege since Hamas' democratic advent to power through the January 2006 elections? Could it be that the Western media has missed the dozens of shocking reports that have warned that the Israeli siege -- which began months before the capture of Shalit -- was soon to create chaos and panic among the already malnourished Palestinians in Gaza? Did they all miss statements by top Israeli officials vowing to carry on with the siege until the outset of Hamas?

Some reporters misrepresent facts out of ignorance, not by design. But if that indeed was the case, then how can one excuse the fact that the same media that coined the term "kidnapping" to describe the action of the Palestinian fighters who captured Shalit refused to use the same association to describe the kidnapping of most of the elected Palestinian Cabinet, mostly academics with no connection to any militant wing?

Israel's military spokesman insisted that they are "all terrorists" and Israel, "like any democratic" country has the right to protect itself against terrorists. If that was true, why did Israel refrain from kidnapping them until Palestinian fighters embarrassed the Israeli Army and captured their first prisoner of war in a long time? Is "rounding up" Palestinian ministers and scores of legislators the same as having a soldier captured in what has been for long a one-sided Israeli war?

If you are an avid viewer of Fox News or a reader of the New York Times, then Israel is yet to exceed its legitimate legal boundaries: that of a democracy opting to defend its citizens. But only racism can lead to such rationale. Only a racist media portrays the capture of a soldier whose army units have besieged Gazans for years, denying them food and medicine, as a violation of all that is holy. Only a racist media presents the kidnapping of 9,000 Palestinians, now in Israeli jails, as a just outcome of Israel's routine arrests of Palestinian terrorists or potential terrorists. Only racism can play down the Israeli destruction of Gaza's infrastructure, which is justified without question, for such actions are necessary to impede the militants' efforts.

And yet, Israel is praised for its "generous" act of allowing some food to be transferred to Gazans, who ironically have gone hungry because of the Israeli-spearheaded international campaign to punish Palestinians for electing Hamas.

Only racism can completely remove from the current discourse the murder of dozens of Palestinian civilians at the hands of the Israeli Army (90 civilians in seven weeks) as the reason that led to the Palestinian raid on the Israeli Army post and the capture of Shalit, and instead depict the current escalation as if it was entirely the work of the Palestinians, with Israel's slate still clean.

Indeed, Israel's slate will continue to be clean as long as racism and inequality are the concepts according to which this conflict is explained. Israel has the right to do all the above actions without hesitation because Israel is not Palestine, and the lives and well being of the residents of Israel, at least some of them, cannot be equated with Palestinians. Turn the tables for a moment and you'll understand how repellent such racism is.

Inequality has always been at the heart of this conflict, the late professor Edward Said used to say. Racism is at the heart of inequality, I must add. The media can be ignorant, biased and self-serving, indeed, but it can also be utterly racist.

dice....just exactly what is the colour of the sky on your planet?

Do the Aspers support the Israeli position? Yes. Newspapers have always had political leanings. Some left, some right. The nature of the business. To state that the media in general has a pro-Israel bent to its reporting says to me that you have ONLY been reading the various versions of Izzy's papers across the country. Have not flipped on the CBC, CTV, BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and hell, yes even CNN (gasp)? Without fail they spend the vast majority of their air time on what is happening in Lebanon and the civilian casualties that are happening there. Almost every story ends with an "oh yes and 126 rockets hit Israel, killing four" etc etc.

The brass tacks here are that we have a democratic country that lives on the edge of extinction 24/7 on the one side. They are surrounded by dictatorships and kingdoms that would love nothing better than to see them follow their ancestors into the ovens. On the other side we have these same countrys knowing that they cannot hope to take Israel in an honest fight, so they feed, pay, arm and support terror organizations to do their dirty work for them.

Let me think here. Democracy or terrorists? I am gonna go with the good guys here. Oh, because you probably need it pointed out who is who, that would be Israel.

After only a few posts it is blatantly obvious that you are a bigoted asshole. Your Syrian, and or, Iranian passport awaits.

Para-Dice keeps bringing up Kevin Sites.. :lol:

Is he you're hero? The guy is a Tard just like you.. :wink:

Izzy Asper died a couple of years ago. His son David took over Global/Canwest etal.

That media chain is 150% fiberal orientated and controlled by the Fiberals over 30 years.

Izzy was not a zionist and neither is his son. I knew them when I lived in Winnipeg when Izzy started with KCND TV in Fargo ND but the studio was at Polo Park in the west end of the Peg. It took awhile for CKND to occur but the Lieberals made a deal that controlled both the printed and elctronic media annually . That is why the Toronto Fiberal Star is the worst rag in Canada, CBC is also just as bad.

Fiberals created this not the Aspers.

Hezbollah is responsible for the deaths of civilians in Lebanon and Israel and financially supported by Iran and Syria. Hezbollah receive $20 million a month fromTehran.

98% of the media in Canada is controlled by those lefty idiot fiberals.

They do not want the citizens of this country to become aware of truth and facts. When it comes to politics the fiberals are worse than garbage in a cesspool.

All journalist school such as Ryerson and Carleton have nothing but socialist idiot profs there.

That is why Canada is going down the toilet real fast.

To conclude when a lefty brushes his/her teeth they are really cleaning their toilet bowls.

P.E.T Canadas worst PM.

He was : Past President of the Communist Youth League of Canada

He started the FLQ in Quebec

He beat up his wife Margaret at least 6 times

He cheated on his wife at a minimum of four times a week

He made sure that the Fiberals controlled the media and began that with
the CBC. CKND was next that eventually became Global.

He took our national debt from $2Billion and drove it to $493Billion

He was a puke a cheater a liar a communist a wife beater and he didn't give a F*** about Canadians.

I worked unfortunately for me a way too close to him and witnessed some of this crap he committed. I finally found a way to have someone else to do what I did because I couldn't stand that idiot and he was also a huge jerk.

Do any of you deny that the Israel Aspers has fired reporters and editors for not towing the Israeli line?

Yes or no?

EDIT:

I couldn't find any racist quotes from Asper, other than his 100% approval of a State for Jews only. I don't know if that is a bad idea either. Other religions have the same thing.

But it appears Asper uses his power to fire anyone who doesn't tow the Israeli line. This is beyound debate, the evidence being rather overwhelming. Here's a letter from a dissatisfied reader: