September 04, 2006
Steyn on Reutersgate
Steyn. You just gotta love that guy. Sun Times:
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Consider, for example, the bizarre behavior of Reuters, the once globally respected news agency now reduced to putting out laughably inept terrorist propaganda. A few days ago, it made a big hoo-ha about the Israelis intentionally firing a missile at its press vehicle and wounding its cameraman Fadel Shana. Shana was posed in an artful sprawl in a blood-spattered shirt. But it had ridden up and underneath his undershirt was spotlessly white, like a summer-stock Julius Caesar revealing the boxers under his toga. What's stunning is not that almost all Western media organizations reporting from the Middle East are reliant on local staff overwhelmingly sympathetic to one side in the conflict -- that's been known for some time -- but the amateurish level of fakery that head office is willing to go along with.Bizzyblog has the pic in question, although I'm not too sure about the meaning of the difference between the Spanish and English quote he mentions. Typically, Israeli statements to the foreign press are in English, not Hebrew.
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Not the greatest transition from Steyn to something else, but the point was that the BBC story's Spanish version appears to cast Israel in a more arrogant and careless light than the English version.
If that's part of a trend, it isn't enough to fisk the English versions. "We" need to have bloggers out there looking at the translated versions, or simply hope that other bloggers in other countries are pointing out the BS.
If that's part of a trend, it isn't enough to fisk the English versions. "We" need to have bloggers out there looking at the translated versions, or simply hope that other bloggers in other countries are pointing out the BS.
Posted by: Tom Blumer at September 04, 2006 09:34 AM (We5FN)
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I am Spanish, and I guess that probably the fault might be put onto BBC translator
The point is that the mass media acting in Spain are mostly FOR Hizbollah. They do not even try to practise a half-way pose on the subject, but they clearly criticize Israel position and identify it with Evil American Imperialism. I ensure you that it is not one of the strongest reports on the news I have lately seen on the matter. Anyway, if any of you are interested on the matter, there are now some media trying to move aside from the politically-accepted point of view...
The point is that the mass media acting in Spain are mostly FOR Hizbollah. They do not even try to practise a half-way pose on the subject, but they clearly criticize Israel position and identify it with Evil American Imperialism. I ensure you that it is not one of the strongest reports on the news I have lately seen on the matter. Anyway, if any of you are interested on the matter, there are now some media trying to move aside from the politically-accepted point of view...
Posted by: Pablo at September 04, 2006 09:42 AM (VPvXe)
Posted by: Darth Vag at September 04, 2006 02:49 PM (HSkSw)
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I really don't understand why people are still arguing over this, there simply is not enough information to go past the, "They were not the target" phase. Obviously them saying one or two missiles hit that truck is a lie, though it might have been collateral damage like that Bangkok post article said.
There are so many contradicting points that making heads or tails off all the lies is pointless, as the story is now irretrievably distorted by the MSM. Without an independent investigation of said vehicle this story is moot. Reuters at best trumped up a collateral damage story to specific targetting, or at worst simply is lying outright, though possibly not knowing the scale, as a couple more "Arab" stringers are laughing their heads off over the stupid media editors.
There are so many contradicting points that making heads or tails off all the lies is pointless, as the story is now irretrievably distorted by the MSM. Without an independent investigation of said vehicle this story is moot. Reuters at best trumped up a collateral damage story to specific targetting, or at worst simply is lying outright, though possibly not knowing the scale, as a couple more "Arab" stringers are laughing their heads off over the stupid media editors.
Posted by: Naieve at September 04, 2006 07:55 PM (+PWjE)
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Elaine on Seinfeld said it all: fake, fake, fake
http://audiofiles2.jerryseinfeld.nl/fakes.mp3
There can be no doubt whatsoever that the story is fake. NONE. It isn't a matter of interpretation, or shading, or conflicting stories. It is fake.
There is more enough information to conclusively determine that the story told by the alleged victims is false. What really happened? Who knows, and who cares, because the story is false.
http://audiofiles2.jerryseinfeld.nl/fakes.mp3
There can be no doubt whatsoever that the story is fake. NONE. It isn't a matter of interpretation, or shading, or conflicting stories. It is fake.
There is more enough information to conclusively determine that the story told by the alleged victims is false. What really happened? Who knows, and who cares, because the story is false.
Posted by: Watergate at September 06, 2006 09:46 PM (BC1Xw)
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