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| DrummeRaver86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by daffodil
I'm going to stick my journalist nose in here. Accuracy is essential to reporting. This thread is titled "honest reporting" so start with correct spellings. I've really only read the last page of the thread so I'm sure it has mutated from it's original topic.
I saw three different spellings in your original post quoting (I think) a story titled "Shlomi Shelling." Which is correct? I'm horrified that the AP and MSNBC can't even get spellings right. In all of my journalism classes, a factual inaccuracy (misspelled name, incorrect date, etc.) automatically fails your for the assignment even if it's a midterm or final and there's a good reason for it: accuracy.
Many news articles seem dishonest or skewed simply because a reporter has not checked for accuracy. Accurate spelling is just one step toward a thorough and unbiased story.
This is something of a personal rant because misspellings are like nails on a chalkboard to me. |
Thank you.
And mike, you really don't sound threatening. I have no opinion on the matter of media (unless it's Fox News). My comment was a simple one. So get the hell of your high-horse. |
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| DrummeRaver86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Viber
i think its good to mispell it ,it shows disreaspect:D |
Actually, I don't think Hezbollah could care less. |
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| melech_mike |
WHO GOT HURT?
On Tuesday, Palestinian suicide bombers in Ariel and Rosh HaAyin murdered two Israelis ¯ 18-year old Erez Hershkovitz and 43-year old Yechezkel Yekutiel ¯ and wounded more than ten. Hamas perpetrated the Ariel attack, and Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigades carried out the Rosh HaAyin killing.
The most egregiously biased report on Tuesday's terror attacks came from the Christian Science Monitor, whose homepage headline read: "Suicide attacks jolt Mideast peace hopes; Bombings may hurt Palestinian effort to stop Israel's barrier":
The text of the article first indicates that the bombings "threaten to undermine the Palestinian Authority's campaign to stop Israel's barrier," and only afterward notes that the terror attack "left two Israelis dead and 11 wounded." The bulk of the article then continues to address not the bloody terror attack itself, but the damage it caused to the Palestinian anti-fence campaign.
Apparently, the warped moral compass of CSM determined that the most serious injury the twin suicide bombings inflicted was not to actual human victims, but to the "hurt" Palestinian political goals.
Beyond this grave insensitivity, CSM twists this story 180 degrees: The attacks illustrate the clear need for the security fence ¯ whose very purpose is to prevent suicide bombings. Instead, CSM tries to use the attacks to arouse sympathy for those opposed to the fence.
How ironic that CSM prides itself on following the mandate: "To injure no man, but to bless all mankind...to reach many homes with healing, purifying thought."
We doubt the families of Erez Hershkovitz and Yechezkel Yekutiel are gaining much "healing" or "purifying thought" from CSM's insensitivity toward their victimhood.
Comments to: CSM's feedback page
--- BROADER COVERAGE OF TWIN ATTACKS ---
In covering Tuesday's attacks, many news reports promoted two falsities:
1) that the twin attacks were an abrupt break from a Palestinian cease-fire; and
2) that Hamas' bomb was a "revenge attack" for an IDF anti-terror raid four days earlier.
1) What "Cease-fire"?
Fiction: USA Today stated, "Two Palestinian suicide bombers broke militant groups' 6-week-old cease-fire Tuesday."
Fact: Since the beginning of the hudna on June 28, 35 Israelis have been killed or wounded in 180 attacks by Palestinian terrorists. An additional four Israelis have been victims of suspected Palestinian kidnappings. In addition, Israeli security services have foiled 36 planned "major attacks" since June 28.
Palestinian attacks since the "cease-fire" include:
- an Israeli woman killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber at Moshav Kfar Ya'vetz (July 7)
- an Israeli man stabbed to death by a Palestinian on Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade (July 15)
- an Israeli man stabbed in Jerusalem's Yemin Moshe neighborhood (July 20)
- an Israeli man stabbed while riding his bicycle in Jerusalem by four Arab assailants (July 23)
- an 11-year-old girl wounded by Palestinian gunfire (July 28)
- four Israelis wounded in an ambush shooting near Jerusalem (August 3)
- six Israelis injured by a rocket attack, fired from a Gaza area under PA control (August 9)
[For more details, go to the homepage of IsraelInsider ¯ look for the section called "Specials," and the link to "Security Incidents Map and Timeline"]
Clearly, Tuesday's twin suicide bombings did not "break" any cease-fire. The only unusual aspect of these attacks is that they were more dramatic than the stabbings and kidnappings that characterized the past six weeks.
Comments to USA Today: [email protected][/email]
2) Palestinian "retaliation"?
Fiction: Associated Press described Tuesday's suicide bombing as a "revenge attack" for an IDF anti-terror raid four days earlier against Hamas.
Fact: Last week, the Israeli Shin Bet security service announced they were following twelve active warnings of planned attacks, including five warnings of suicide bombings originating from the West Bank. The IDF anti-terror raid on Askar ¯ the pretext for Hamas' "retaliation" ¯ took place on Friday. Tuesday's attacks, therefore, had almost certainly been in the works long before the Askar events.
The media have continually rationalized Palestinian terror attacks as retaliation for IDF actions. For example, the June 11 bus bombing in Jerusalem that killed 17 Israelis was spun by most media outlets as retaliation for the IDF attempt on Hamas leader Rantisi's life, one day earlier. However, a Hamas accomplice to the bombing has now confirmed to Israeli police that the Jerusalem attack was planned by Hamas an entire month beforehand.
Comments to Associated Press: [email][email protected] |
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| Eisbaer |
| none of this matters |
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| Viber |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eisbaer
none of this matters |
much like you:whip: |
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| Dmatrox |
| Who gives a . Its all the same most of the time. |
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| melech_mike |
THE HUMAN FALLOUT
On Tuesday evening a Palestinian suicide terrorist struck a packed Jerusalem bus, killing twenty and injuring more than one hundred. One aspect of this attack made it uniquely barbaric ¯ the bus was filled with young children on summer vacation, on their way home from worshiping with their families at the Western Wall. With at least seven children dead and more than forty still wounded, this one has become known in Israel, with a heavy heart, as "The Children's Attack."
Yet many news outlets chose to focus their main reports on the diplomatic implications of Tuesday's attack. Reuters, for example, headlined a story "Bus Blast in Israel Deals Deadly Blow to Truce."
While the political fallout of the bombing is significant, "the story" of a terror attack ¯ especially one targeting children ¯ is far more than diplomatic. With scores of parents still nursing or mourning their children, and children mourning their parents, some reporters submitted human interest stories on the human fallout of this particularly heinous attack:
-- James Bennet of The New York Times wrote a poignant article describing the funeral of a baby, and doctors' noble efforts to treat child terror victims.
-- Associated Press addressed the excruciating difficulties of reuniting families victimized by the blast.
-- The Washington Post ran a touching profile of the child victims of the attack, entitled "Special Sorrow for the Young."
This is a human interest story about Israeli victims that demands broad coverage. Did your local paper print such a story?
HonestReporting encourages subscribers to call the editors of your local paper right now, and urge them to run a follow-up, human interest account of Tuesday's barbaric murder of Jerusalem children and families. Five Americans were also killed in the attack ¯ a further reason for local human interest in the U.S. (Your local paper can run one of the aforementioned articles, which are easily available for reprint.)
A full listing of U.S. newspapers is available online.
--- REUTERS' "HUMAN" INTEREST ---
Reuters also released a sympathetic, human interest profile ¯ on the life of the terrorist bomber. Reuters encourages readers to rationalize his monstrous act, describing how the "academic cleric...was embittered by ill treatment" in an Israeli jail, and "infuriated by Israel's killing this month of a distant relative." Further, Reuters confers a modicum of credibility to his mass murder by blandly grouping him among "militants waging a 34-month-old uprising for independence."
On the Israeli side, Reuters did release an article on the religious community hit hardest by the blast. The article, however, was largely a cold, sociological overview that referred to the people as "menfolk" who don "heavy dark frocks and headgear."
Apparently, this is the best Reuters can muster to humanize Israeli terror victims.
Comments to: [email protected] |
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| Izzy |
this is something that got me today...
why do all the major tv channels show the funerals and parades mourning the deaths of palestinian terrorist orginization memebers, but rarely if ever show israel funerals. not that i care, but just noticed that today. |
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| melech_mike |
| Neo-anti-Semitism |
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| Cyrus King |
| quote: | Originally posted by melech_mike
Neo-anti-Semitism |
For s sake.. shut up with that word...
Just becuase news broadcasts dont show funerals of the Israeli victims it makes them Anti-semetic?!?!!?!
HHHAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA....go and weep little one.
P.S Can you post the links of these biast articles you claim are "honest"? |
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| Cyrus King |
IOF Shoot Dead Two Teenage Brothers, Raid Palestinian Cities
Thursday, August 21 2003 @ 07:35 PM GMT
"Israeli sources confirmed a Palestinian was killed and said they had temporarily taken the body for 'identification purposes' .."
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot dead two Palestinian brothers, both in their mid teens, after raiding Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Wednesday when after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered a series of attacks against Palestinian targets, while Isareli police allowed non-Muslims into al-Aqsa compound and attacked Palestinian detainees in Megiddo prison wounding dozens of them.
In the northern West Bank, witnesses said Islam Ghanem, 16, was shot dead and his body was taken by the IOF raiding Tulkarem refugee camp.
Israeli sources confirmed a Palestinian was killed and said they had temporarily taken the body for “identification purposes.”
Shortly afterwards, medical sources said Ghanem’s younger brother, Sa’ed, 15, who had been critically injured by a bullet to the chest during the raid, had died of his wounds in Tulkarem hospital.
Three other Palestinians were also injured by IOF soldiers during the raid.
Palestinian security sources said that a special undercover unit of IOF soldiers dressed as civilians pushed into the town and began firing inside the camp.
IOF troops also detained four people, witnesses said.
Meanwhile, some 15 Israeli tanks were seen moving out of an IOF base just north of Ramallah and heading along a major road towards the West Bank city, Palestinian security sources told AFP.
Five of the tanks, accompanied by a similar number of jeeps, stationed themselves at the main entrance to the neighboring town of El Bireh, while the remaining tanks stopped just short of Ramallah, an AFP correspondent said.
An Israeli helicopter was also seen over-flying both cities.
Earlier, Israeli occupation troops sealed off all the entrances to Ramallah, which is home to the West Bank headquarters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and the governbment of Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas.
IOF troops and tanks also raided the West Bank towns of Nablus and Jenin early Thursday, Palestinian officials said.
Some 20 tanks, personnel carriers and other vehicles raided Jenin.
IOF also imposed a curfew in central Nablus after more than 30 vehicles — mostly trucks and a few tanks — entered the city.
IOF detained ten Palestinians in Arraba town and Jalboun village in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin, Palestinian security sources said.
Israeli bulldozers also demolished the house of Fakhri Yehya, in Kfur Ra'ei village, near Tulkarem, witnesses said.
Earlier, IOF demolished two houses owned by Jalajel family in the occupied east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, south Al Aqsa Mosque compound, WAFA reported
Meanwhile, IOF sealed off and imposed strict curfew on the southern West Bank city of Hebron for the second consecutive day, citizens said.
Israel Allows Non-Muslims to Enter al-Aqsa Despite Palestinian Rejection
Separately, the Israeli police have reopened Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, to Jews and Christians on Wednesday, despite Palestinian rejection and warning that the move could flare the violence.
A group of American tourists already visited Al-Aqsa Mosque - in occupied east Jerusalem Wednesday morning, under intense police security, according to Israeli media.
Israel’s Internal Security Minister, Tzachi HaNegbi said Wednesday morning, following the site’s re-opening that “From now on, we won't allow Palestinians to prohibit non-Muslims from visiting the site, which is holy to all religions.”
According to Levy, “After the Temple Mount had been opened to visitors for a few months, the police suspended the entrance of Jewish and Christian visitors to the Mount for operational reasons for a period of three weeks,” and added, “The suspension and re-opening came after the issues had been examined.”
Last week, the Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, has criticized the Israeli government for its practices against Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Sheikh Sabri affirmed that the Islamic Awkaf department was the sole party responsible for holy shrines in occupied Jerusalem, especially Al Aqsa Mosque and was the only authority to allow or ban the entry of non-Muslims.
“The resumption of foreigners’ visits to the al-Aqsa Mosque’s plazas would be declared whenever the Wakf found it appropriate,” he elaborated.
Dozens of Detainees Attacked, Wounded by IOF
Separately, dozens of Palestinians detainees, held in Megiddo prison, were wounded after IOF soldiers opened fire at them after they protested against the transfer of some prisoners to Kziot prison in southern Israel,
Kziot has a reputation among Palestinian prisoners for poorer conditions than Megiddo.
“'This is a political riot, a protest. The administration of the prison wanted to punish us so they decided to transfer 220 prisoners who are serving life sentences to Kziot. We refused that,” a prisoner spokesman who identified himself as Yassin Yassin told Reuters by mobile phone from inside.
“'The soldiers used tear gas and rubber bullets and there are tents ablaze,” he said.
Israel has jailed about 8,000 Palestinians since the outbreak of the 34-month-old uprising against the Israeli 36-year old occupation, many held without charges. |
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| melech_mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cyrus King
IOF Shoot Dead Two Teenage Brothers, Raid Palestinian Cities
Thursday, August 21 2003 @ 07:35 PM GMT
"Israeli sources confirmed a Palestinian was killed and said they had temporarily taken the body for 'identification purposes' .."
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot dead two Palestinian brothers, both in their mid teens, after raiding Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Wednesday when after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered a series of attacks against Palestinian targets, while Isareli police allowed non-Muslims into al-Aqsa compound and attacked Palestinian detainees in Megiddo prison wounding dozens of them.
In the northern West Bank, witnesses said Islam Ghanem, 16, was shot dead and his body was taken by the IOF raiding Tulkarem refugee camp.
Israeli sources confirmed a Palestinian was killed and said they had temporarily taken the body for “identification purposes.”
Shortly afterwards, medical sources said Ghanem’s younger brother, Sa’ed, 15, who had been critically injured by a bullet to the chest during the raid, had died of his wounds in Tulkarem hospital.
Three other Palestinians were also injured by IOF soldiers during the raid.
Palestinian security sources said that a special undercover unit of IOF soldiers dressed as civilians pushed into the town and began firing inside the camp.
IOF troops also detained four people, witnesses said.
Meanwhile, some 15 Israeli tanks were seen moving out of an IOF base just north of Ramallah and heading along a major road towards the West Bank city, Palestinian security sources told AFP.
Five of the tanks, accompanied by a similar number of jeeps, stationed themselves at the main entrance to the neighboring town of El Bireh, while the remaining tanks stopped just short of Ramallah, an AFP correspondent said.
An Israeli helicopter was also seen over-flying both cities.
Earlier, Israeli occupation troops sealed off all the entrances to Ramallah, which is home to the West Bank headquarters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and the governbment of Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas.
IOF troops and tanks also raided the West Bank towns of Nablus and Jenin early Thursday, Palestinian officials said.
Some 20 tanks, personnel carriers and other vehicles raided Jenin.
IOF also imposed a curfew in central Nablus after more than 30 vehicles — mostly trucks and a few tanks — entered the city.
IOF detained ten Palestinians in Arraba town and Jalboun village in the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin, Palestinian security sources said.
Israeli bulldozers also demolished the house of Fakhri Yehya, in Kfur Ra'ei village, near Tulkarem, witnesses said.
Earlier, IOF demolished two houses owned by Jalajel family in the occupied east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, south Al Aqsa Mosque compound, WAFA reported
Meanwhile, IOF sealed off and imposed strict curfew on the southern West Bank city of Hebron for the second consecutive day, citizens said.
Israel Allows Non-Muslims to Enter al-Aqsa Despite Palestinian Rejection
Separately, the Israeli police have reopened Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, to Jews and Christians on Wednesday, despite Palestinian rejection and warning that the move could flare the violence.
A group of American tourists already visited Al-Aqsa Mosque - in occupied east Jerusalem Wednesday morning, under intense police security, according to Israeli media.
Israel’s Internal Security Minister, Tzachi HaNegbi said Wednesday morning, following the site’s re-opening that “From now on, we won't allow Palestinians to prohibit non-Muslims from visiting the site, which is holy to all religions.”
According to Levy, “After the Temple Mount had been opened to visitors for a few months, the police suspended the entrance of Jewish and Christian visitors to the Mount for operational reasons for a period of three weeks,” and added, “The suspension and re-opening came after the issues had been examined.”
Last week, the Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, has criticized the Israeli government for its practices against Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Sheikh Sabri affirmed that the Islamic Awkaf department was the sole party responsible for holy shrines in occupied Jerusalem, especially Al Aqsa Mosque and was the only authority to allow or ban the entry of non-Muslims.
“The resumption of foreigners’ visits to the al-Aqsa Mosque’s plazas would be declared whenever the Wakf found it appropriate,” he elaborated.
Dozens of Detainees Attacked, Wounded by IOF
Separately, dozens of Palestinians detainees, held in Megiddo prison, were wounded after IOF soldiers opened fire at them after they protested against the transfer of some prisoners to Kziot prison in southern Israel,
Kziot has a reputation among Palestinian prisoners for poorer conditions than Megiddo.
“'This is a political riot, a protest. The administration of the prison wanted to punish us so they decided to transfer 220 prisoners who are serving life sentences to Kziot. We refused that,” a prisoner spokesman who identified himself as Yassin Yassin told Reuters by mobile phone from inside.
“'The soldiers used tear gas and rubber bullets and there are tents ablaze,” he said.
Israel has jailed about 8,000 Palestinians since the outbreak of the 34-month-old uprising against the Israeli 36-year old occupation, many held without charges. |
Whats your bi-assed sources link? Electronic intifada? HA!
All the posts here from me are on behalf of honestreporting.com
You could check out their credentials yourself. |
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