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Wednesday, January 16 2008A Barrage of Bad ReportingMany media outlets fail to add significant context to a day of violence. Read more at HonestReporting's latest communique: A Barrage of Bad Reporting
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference A Barrage of Bad Reporting: CommentsWHAT AOBUT THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE TODAY I really do not think a 19 to 1 kill ratio is very fair. Personally, I think Israel ought to blanket the West Bank and Gaza with Arabic pamphlets, loudspeakers and radio and t.v. coverage, along with a worldwide dissemination of the following information: effective (3 months from date of release), all - ALL - killings/hostage-takings by Palestinian terrorists will be met by a guaranteed 50 to 1 minimum ratio of killings and destruction of homes or other buildings in the area from which the Palestinian attacks were launched. Then deliver on the promise. Of course, all that could be avoided by a complete cease-fire, during which time peace talks take place in earnest. This article is very good - but adding still even more background would help. Don't be afraid to throw in more. While not as bad as some of the outlets cited in today's HR communique, the New York Times today also continued to give front page blurb and headline emphasis to Israel's reactions, rather than to the Palestinian's actions. I dont think that your comments on the Washington Post article as being accurate is correct. It still has an anti Israeli bias. It does not spell out clearly that rockets were fired into Israel before the Israeli assualt and it does not clearly state that Isreal is doing this to in an attempt to stop the daily rocket fire at it's civilian population. The headline should read: Hi I no longer expect much- anything- fair of the media- certainly not those in Europe or Britain or Scotland. They have a history(yes, the Brits and Scots as well) of anti-semitism, historical pandering to the Arabs and their current pandering- if we bash Israel, maybe our immigrant Moslem population will love us. 19 Palesinians die in Israeli raid on Hamas rocket sites as reported in the Edmonton Journal by the Chicago Tribune. Further details give 3 dead as civilians and more than 40 people wounded, and later reports that a volley of rockets only lightly wounded 5 people in Sderot. War, anywhere is abominable. Necessary sometimes, but horrific always. What is just as abominable is when journalists "play to the audience" instead of telling the balanced unvarnished TRUTH. Yellow journalism sells newspapers. The U.S. learned that lesson in the Spanish - American war, and subsequent wars. Israel suffers routine and horrific missile attacks, daily. Death and injury daily. I pray for the true peace of Jerusalem. I also sympathize with and pray for the people of Palestine, as we all should. Both sides bleed red. The loss of loved ones crushes those on BOTH sides of this bloody war. We share the common bond of humanity. Yet, to "choose sides" against Israel for the purpose of being "politically correct" or to "sell more newspapers, more radio/TV ads, or to promote politically correct agendas" is reprehensible, and akin to the "there was no holocaust" myth propagated by Iran's President. Has Great Britain forgotten the merciless V-2 attacks of Hitler? Were the newspapers of the day deriding the British Isles for their "heartless" bombing of Nazi strongholds? Have we forgotten 9/11/01 or the bombing of Pearl harbor. That is the fair journalistic lens/ perspective which should be applied to Israel. All true journalists should mourn one-sided reporting, as such reporting causes said “journalists” to virtually prostitute their profession, reducing their work to a “slice of bread”. Perhaps reporters should attend Israeli funerals, and visit Israeli victims, or would that hurt the sale of their newspapers too much. My British ancestry is brought to shame by European and most American reporting. Respectfully, Mike Logan I've just lodged a formal complaint to the BBC about their total lack of context in their reports and their failure to mention the constant rocket attacks on Sderot and Ashkelon. In particular in the light of the number of Israeli wounded and the BBC's report here: Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility for a heavy rocket barrage aimed at the Israeli town of Sderot on Wednesday, but there were no reports of injuries. I suggest you read the second paragraph of the Washington Post. the inference is that in response to Israel's incursion , Hams killed the civilian and fired the rockets. Honest Reporting should start a campaign to have all foreign reporters in Israel be based in the city of Sderot. Let them sleep (if they manage to) work and report from this city. Let them expirience first had what the city endures day after day. My local newspaper "Dagblad van et Noorden" (In the North of the Netherlands) printed a huge photo of a crying Palestinian child and woman Usually, I fully agree with your analysis and take action. I was getting ready to write to the SF Chronicle and decided to first read the Washington Post article. The excerpt that I found pertinent said, "After Israel launched a pre-dawn raid . . .Palestinian gunmen killed an Ecuadoran laborer working in an Israeli potato field . . . and fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel, wounding four people, officials said." This chronology was not apparent in your own comments. This is a war and during war, every action will lead to reaction as was apparent during last years Lebanon excursion. Alan Huth's note above doesn't seem to get it right either. Respectfully, Here in NZ there seems to be a definite anti-Israel bias in both Wellington's "The Dominion" and Auckland's "The Herald". It was very much the big bad Israelis killing lots of poor innocent Palistians! Also Jewish graves are desecrated while the people bend over backwards to avoid offending our Muslim residents. Very unfair reporting. Thank you for your great work - keep it up, making sure that you provide equal honest reporting cover for both sides. A State of Palistine should be created in one of the large Muslim countries such as Iran, Iraq,Syria, or Saudi Arabia but, unfortunately, those countries do not want their Muslim brothers. All this bias in reporting should come as no surprise to those who are aware of the Globalist agenda..The intentions are to influence public opinion by demonizing any Nation that has Sovereignty. The goal is to reduce all Nations to borderless chaos slave status and use United Nations troops to commandeer the masses as an Industrial Police force to exterminate any dissention....The United Nations is exactly what Eisenhower meant when he said 'Beware of the Military Industrial Complex.' Whilst the comments on this site all have great merit, I ask how can we try to change the "biased" media reporting other than what is currently being done. I would suggest that the Israely government and all its representatives around the world have to lift there "game" dramatically in order to ensure that the information is clear and out there for the media to use in the first place. I'm glad you are doing this, but how about more passion? You are too cautious. How about a scream of outrage as you list the facts about Arabs innundating Israelis with violence? And how about shouts of disgust for all the Arab lies, so many one could drown in them. But don't drown - shove them back at the sender. Do those journalists have an idea what they report on:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080117.wmideast17/BNStory/International
"Mr Lieberman, who supports the idea of removing all Israeli Arabs from Israel so that it is an Arab-free nation," http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/16/wisrael116.xml Art Braufman, While I agree fully on accurate reporting, a couple comments... - The Wash Post may not have gotten the pre-dawn raid accurately. No one else reported anything like it. - The Palestinians are fully responsible for security in Gaza. Meanwhile, israel has every right to seek out attackers on it's citizens at any time. So it doesn't matter what the sequence is or what the particular triggers are at the moment. Those are assumes every country would agree with and would be the basis of the newsreporting, if it wasn't Israel that was being hit. - If there was a pre-dawn "raid" it may have been just a small entry to local and arrest a prior attacker. Nothing to trigger a major barrage. Wouldn't it be nice to have our own eyes and ears on the ground? Amazingly..the TORONTO STAR gave a "Better,more ballanced report" Art is right. HonestReporting has been very selective with the "context", completely ignoring the Israeli raid into Gaza that kicked all this off. Let's say it like it is. All these one-sided reports of Israel attacking Gaza without reason are just another case of blatant anti-semitism. No matter which headline this appears on! Honest Reporting must get it's members to write to heads of states and bypass the newpapers. Are these leaders not also reading the reports of their papers? Is it all about selling papers or aiding in the continuation of hatred? Both? Michael at Jan 17, 2008 11:58:03 PM You and the MSM are getting the cart in front of the horse. What "kicked off the Israeli raid into Gaza" was the incessant barrage of rockets and mortars into Israel from the Gaza strip. You and the MSM love to put it the other way around to make it look like those poor "Palestinians" are only "resisting" Israeli agression. By the way, even the openly anti-Israel "Human Rights watch" has said that the indiscriminate firing of unguided missiles into civilian areas is a War Crime. It is you and the MSM that is "selective with the context", not HonestReporting! See here. ... In the second half of 2007, the BBC published only two articles in direct response to Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza making a total of only six stories on this subject over the entire year. This, despite the fact that the IDF recorded almost 1,500 separate rocket and mortar attacks for the year (30% more than in 2006). Don't you think Israel has a right to defend itself, and don't you think in the light of continuous rocket fire your opinions are based on a complete lack of "context"? Post a comment[Comments are held for approval before appearing.]
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