Posted on 12/28/2008 1:53:39 PM PST by moneyrunner
The headline in the Virginian Pilot (dead tree edition) was an editorial. It read:
Hamas rockets prompt fierce reply.
"Fierce?" Beware of adjectives; they reflect the writer’s attitude.
...
“The Waves of Israeli airstrikes rained more than 100 tons of bombs on security installations in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday in a crushing response to the group’s rocket fire. The attack killed at least 230 – the highest one-day toll in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in decades.”
"Rained" "100 tons" "crushing" "highest one-day toll" are all editorial comments that are intended to elicit the appropriate response. We are supposed to consider the Israelis as a steamroller destroying their hapless victims.
After that beginning we would expect to see pictures of destroyed security installations (that being the stated target), but ...this will not be the case because that’s not really the theme of the story.
The theme is in the picture that accompanies the story.
The caption read: “A Palestinian girl wounded in an Israeli missile strike…” ...
We can expect to see "Green Helmet Guy" all over again, or perhaps another fake photo like the one by Tyler Hicks. And who can forget the infamous photo of the ambulance with a hole dead-center in its roof - supposed to be proof of Israeli atrocities but actually the place where the rooftop flashing light was removed. Trust me, that scam was so successful that it will be run again.
We are informed “What started it.”
“A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas collapsed a week ago, leading to rocket attacks in large numbers against Israel and isolated Israeli operations.”
A cease fire collapsed? A man can collapse and a wall can collapse, but a cease fire can’t collapse all by itself. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at moneyrunner.blogspot.com ...
Actually, I like the thought of an Israeli steamroller crushing Hamas.
Well, actually, the headline was somewhat more fair that the one for the same story in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram today: “Israel bombs Gaza, killing 230; infantry, tanks head to border”.
At least your paper mentions that the Palestinians started the ruckus. As usual.
Hamas ‘fires’ rockets into civilian areas in Israel but Israeli rocket ‘rain’ down on Hamas.
Bias in the media isn’t just about hating conservatives and Republicans - it also applies to Israelis whom they must presume are all GOP members as well.
Id does break my heart to think all these people are without haps. I vote we send those poor, poor palestinians as many haps as we can. That way, when they are desroyed by the Israeli War Machine, they will merely be victims. And not hapless victims (makes me shudder to even type the word--hapless). /s
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I wager Rachael Corrie would beg to differ.
It seems to me that someone could write a public domain text editor software that would automatically detect such bias, quantify it in an objective manner, with a display for just that article or an entire edition of a newspaper, or many articles written by the same source, for example.
Thus it would objectively expose those who corrupt the news.
Such people thrive on the poor memories of others, even their own editors, and the relativity of bias, “everybody does it”.
Over time, such bias does become unacceptable. And software like this can *objectively* label someone as an anti-Semite, for example, and prove it. Their denials would be meaningless, because time after time they would have written “news” in such a way to show their hatred of Jews.
And imagine watching a publisher cringe, when they appear before an assembly of Jews, when confronted with a question like, “If you like and respect Jews, why do you employ a confirmed anti-Semite? Is that what you think a “responsible opposing viewpoint” means?”
I asked, "would you please explain how a murder could not be brutal?" She fixed it.
(bad pun coming)
Death by dachshund.
Wiggling furry plump wiener dogs
Tails tick-tocking in the air
Twice as many flopping ears as tongues
There were dachsies everywhere.
It would not be brutal.
It would be doggerel.
Rachel Corrie was a leftist who openly aided terrorists. I care neither for her opinion nor her death.
There is an oblique correlation between a steamroller and Rachael Corrie.
Several hundred armored D9s would be much better. Saw a picture of one posted here on FReepers this morning.
Lets see, I may have a few haps sitting around. Of course they are not free to Palastinians. I’ve got to be paid for my haps.
I might give some of them to people I respect. I realized a long time ago that if a Palastinian spokesperson’s lips were moving they were lying.
Unfortunately, it is not just limited to those few. It is the Moslem Way.
And the warm feeling you would get just knowing those poor people were happed before being blown into itsy-bitsy pieces and buried alive really should be payment enough. Just sew Return to Sender on the inside edge and surely they will be returned. Consider the bloodstains reminders of a job well done.
It is Islam that is the problem, not just radical Islam. The world can keep its head in the sand only until the “good” Muslims feel that the time is right to chop it off.
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