Posted on 09/29/2024 1:43:02 PM PDT by Freeleesy
The Associated Press (AP) found itself embroiled in controversy this weekend over its portrayal of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The news agency's biographical article, seemingly prepared in anticipation of Nasrallah's potential demise, initially bore the headline: "Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah."
The characterization drew immediate criticism on social media platforms. By Saturday morning, AP had amended the headline to a more neutral "Who is longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?" The rapid edit appeared to be a direct response to the flood of criticism on X (formerly Twitter).
Notable figures across the political spectrum weighed in on the controversy. Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) dismissed AP's portrayal, stating, "Nasrallah was a ruthless, murderous terrorist." Human rights activist Hillel Neuer sarcastically suggested that AP should have spoken to Nasrallah's victims instead. Even Elon Musk, owner of X, shared a post critical of the "mainstream press" in response to the incident.
Critics noted that the article went through 12 paragraphs before mentioning the word "terrorist," instead using terms like "astute strategist" and "archenemy of Israel" to describe Nasrallah.
The AP controversy is part of a larger scrutiny of media coverage surrounding the Israel-Hamas conflict. A recent study claimed the BBC violated its own "editorial guidelines" over 1,500 times in its coverage, showing bias against Israel.
Other major outlets have also faced criticism for avoiding terms like "terrorist" when describing Hamas and Hezbollah since the October 7 attack on Israel, which resulted in 1,200 deaths and 250 kidnappings.
Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.”
Now you can add “ DEAD” to his profile.
Good riddance, savage bass turd.
Yes! I can see how a garden variety, ignorant backwards finger wagging rag head would be “charasmatic” to an AP hack who never had a daddy in their lives.
Charismatic and shrewd are not incompatible with EVIL.
Describes a lot of mass murders.
He went from shrewd to shred.
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I don’t know how shrewd he was. He may have been charismatic. He was also brutal and ruled with fear as much as “inspiration”. But on the scale of shrewdness he and his Iranian advisors were completely outwitted. Israel methodically took Hezbullah apart step by step going back years: infiltrating their ranks and developing human sources, taking out Syrian (Russian supplied) air defenses, cutting off the Iranian/Syrian supply lines by destroying routes and runways and caravans, destroying missile factories, blowing up rocket storage locations, targeting key figures with surgical strikes and bombs, knocking out 400 or more launchers which hindered their ability to launch a full scale barrage of rockets, blowing up 3000 pagers, blowing up 100s of radios… which forced the leaders to meet face to face to plan their next moves in an underground bunker, which Israel knew where when and who and was ready to use a dozen or so bunker buster bombs to take them all out at once. It seems like a plan that was well laid and well executed by Israeli intelligence. Very methodical. And this guy saw none of it coming. Hezbullah is now trapped, can’t get resupply, can’t recruit and more or less can’t retaliate. The only thing they can seemingly do is fight on the ground with small arms if Israel goes in.
Unless somehow they have some other unknown weapon of mass destruction, which I pray isn’t the case or isn’t used if they do.
Shrewd and blowed up real good?
The Squad very sad
I say he had a lot of guts...apparently.
The Lebanese, particularly the Christians,may not ever have a better time to get rid of Hezbollah and join Israel in defeating Iran.
I wonder if he got 72 virgins.
If so I hope they all look like Whoopie Goldberg.
5.56mm
Bassem forgot his was a killer first.
In left-speak, his pronouns are: was/were.
Killers and Crooks ARE shrewd and charismatic. It’s when they call Nasrallah a humanitarian who cared about folks that pisses me off!
He forgot to mention that those qualities were spread out over multiple terrain features in multiple grid squares of a topo map.
He is charismatic and shrewd. He is also a murderous terrorist.
How true.
Yup. It's one thing he did really, really well.
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