Say what?
You can plainly see the anti-Israeli bias of the Associated Press in the headline from this piece from today. Trust me, the areas in Lebanon that Israel is attacking are not “suspected” Hezbollah targets, they are for a fact Hezbollah bases. Israel doesn’t just blow stuff up for no good reason.
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Israel pounded suspected Hezbollah positions across Lebanon on Thursday, extending its air campaign a day after suffering its highest one-day casualty toll since its military offensive began. An Israeli Cabinet minister said lack of agreement on a cease-fire gave Israel permission to press deeper to wipe out the Islamic militant group.(emphasis mine)
Notice also how the AP refuses to call Hezbollah a terrorist group, which is plainly what they are.
On Wednesday, a high-level Mideast conference in Rome ended in disagreement, with most European leaders urging an immediate cease-fire, but the U.S. willing to give Israel more time to punish the guerrilla group. (emphasis mine)
If you follow the AP’s coverage of the Middle East, none of this shoddy reporting should be too much of a surprise, but I often feel that it’s necessary to try to keep the AP honest by pointing these things out.
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Stumble It!
July 27th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
It is as you say. The media bias is very in your face, tung and all. Even if you want to call it reporting the news or something resembling jurnalisam in the end you can only say that is is simply propaganda.
People are not stupid. We are not fooled by this type of reporting inaccuracy,
I wasn’t born yesterday and Jimmy Carter ain’t president.