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August 12, 2008 Greg Felton - Human Rights Tribunals neither good nor bad—just necessary, unfortunately For this position to be valid, the right of free speech must be raised to the level of a categorical imperative—a standard valid for all speech.... Let’s say a magazine or newspaper published a factual, investigative article about the similarities between Israel and Nazi Germany, Israel’s systematic killing and torture of Palestinian children, or The Lobby’s corrupting influence in our government and media. Would The Lobby’s media tyrants abide by Maclean’s high-minded ethic? Of course not. Informed dissent against Israel or The Lobby is deliberately ridiculed and demonized as “hate speech.”
July 24, 2008 PTT - Media manipulations: The child was called a murderer while the soldier was called a `boy' One of today’s main articles on the Guardian reads ‘Israel exchanges Lebanese murderer for bodies of two captured soldiers’.... The Guardian never forgot to describe in detail what Kuntar might have done to deserve the prison sentence, but it did not mention any of the Israeli soldiers' atrocities against the Lebanese and the Palestinians. Such method of writing is to charge the readers with hate against one side, while adding a peaceful innocent victim mask on the other... People usually scan the titles of newspapers, not many read the rest of the article. And after a few headlines of this kind, you can't help but to swallow a ready canned lie, and consider one side guiltyand the other innocent. One wonders whether the ethics of journalism has disappeared, or just lost its way.
June 8, 2008 Information Clearinghouse - Tutu's Trip to Gaza Censored by the US Media When Nobel Laureate and world renowned peacemaker Desmond Tutu goes to Gaza
to visit the site of an Israeli massacre; that's news, right? So why is it
impossible to find any account of his trip in America's leading newspapers?
Is it because any information that is incompatible with the territorial
ambitions of the Israeli leadership is simply "disappeared" into the
media-ether? March 2008 Counterpunch - How to be An Israeli Journalist: Never Write "Murder" or "Palestine" When a violent incident is reported, the IDF confirms or the army says but the Palestinians claim : ‘The Palestinians claimed that a baby was severely injured in IDF shootings.' Is this a fib? ‘The Palestinians claim that Israeli settlers threatened them' .... When the Palestinians aren't making claims , their viewpoint is simply not heard. CPNO - Ten rules for reporting on the Middle East conflict Rule # 1: In the Middle East, it is always the Arabs that attack first, and it's always Israel who defends itself. This is called "Retaliation". Glasgow Media Group - Bad News from Israel NOTE: This is an important and thorough study of the Brithish media done in 2004. The findings clearly apply to the Canadian media and western media in general. The study suggests that television news on the Israel/Palestinian conflict confuses viewers and substantially features Israeli government views. Israelis are quoted and speak in interviews over twice as much as Palestinians and there are major differences in the language used to describe the two sides. This operates in favours of the Israelis and influences how viewers understand the conflict. If Americans Only Knew - New York Times Distortion Up Close and Personal A little over a week ago, some members of our organization, If Americans Knew, met with New York Times Public Editor Daniel Okrent to discuss the findings of a detailed study we had completed of two years worth of Times news stories on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Okrent was going to be writing a column discussing the paper's coverage of Israel/Palestine, and we felt our study would be an important resource. CPNO - The Media and the Palestinians It is no secret that the North American media has played a major role in the unresolved assault on the Palestinian people. The pro-Israel bias is evident throughout the print and television media, not so much by what is said but by what is not said: the history and context of the crisis is never presented.
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