Op-Ed: How the Murder of a Jewish Baby is Reported Worldwide

Arutz Sheva ^ | 24/10/14 | Ariel Cahana

[Eleutheria5]

International news agency Associated Press (AP) has been accused of anti-Israel bias before, but this time the agency has surpassed even itself in reporting the Jerusalem terror attack in which 3-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun was murdered.

Its headline reporting the attack was "Israeli Police Shoot Man in East Jerusalem", referring to the terrorist (!) who was driving the car that drove into people waiting at a light rail station. The original article (later changed), began with the words: "Israeli police say they have shot a man whose car slammed into a crowded train stop in east Jerusalem, in what they suspect was an intentional attack".

Jerusalem Post writer Lahav Harkov reacted to the disgusting headline on Twitter: "An infant was killed and eight people injured, two of them critically, but the AP headline is 'Israeli Police Shoot Man in East Jerusalem'".

Harkov's criticism spread rapidly on social media and the news agency changed its headline a bit to "A Car hit a Train Station in East Jerusalem". This biased headline was also severely criticized by browsers. Within an hour, the agency changed its headline (and the beginning of the article) once again to "“Palestinian Kills Baby at Jerusalem Station."

AP is the most powerful news agency in the world, especially when it comes to reports from the Middle East. The information it sends out is reported word for word on thousands of media locations and reaches millions of online readers worldwide.

Recently, a former senior writer at AP, Matti Friedman,wrote that the agency has an ideological axe to grind and that its reports are routinely anti-Israel. "It is almost impossible to post anything negative about the Palestinians, and one must remember that this is the media source that provides, among other things, photos to about 10,000 media outlets..."... .....

[Eleutheria5]

Translated from original Hebrew article in Makor Rishon by Rochel Sylvetsky of Arutz Sheva.

[Fungi]

Dennis Prager had a long commentary on his show about this. AP should be ashamed but here is where the truth never gets in the way of the agenda. An alternate source for news is the answer and constantly telling papers, sources, sites, who run this crap that their product will not be bought. The AP address in Los Angeles:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
221 S FIGUEROA ST STE 300
LOS ANGELES
(213) 626-1200

Call them, they actually answer the phone, and tell them your mind. They do not like that.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Prayers for little Chaya who is the warmth of God’s embrace.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Anyone who read the first line of the story pretty well knew what had happened. Still, the big news was not the shooting but the crash.

[Carry_Okie]

Nothing surprises me any more, but somehow the disgust never abates.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

> Associated Press... headline reporting the attack was “Israeli Police Shoot Man in East Jerusalem” ...the news agency changed its headline a bit to “A Car hit a Train Station in East Jerusalem”... Within an hour, the agency changed its headline (and the beginning of the article) ... to “Palestinian Kills Baby at Jerusalem Station.” ... Recently, a former senior writer at AP, Matti Friedman, wrote that... its reports are routinely anti-Israel. “It is almost impossible to post anything negative about the Palestinians, and one must remember that this is the media source that provides, among other things, photos to about 10,000 media outlets...”

[Impy]

Sickening.

[SJackson]

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