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The Photo That Started It All (Media lying via the camera)
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| Oct 20, 2002
Posted on 08/03/2006 6:42:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz
The Photo that Started it All
On the day the Intafada broke out, Tuvia Grossman was riding a taxi to visit the Western Wall. He was unwittingly thrust into the international limelight -- and nearly killed in the process.
On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man -- bloodied and battered -- crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of the recent riots -- with the clear implication that the Israeli soldier is the one who beat him.
The victim's true identity was revealed when Dr. Aaron Grossman of Chicago sent the following letter to the Times:
Regarding your picture on page A5 of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount -- that Palestinian is actually my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while traveling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs, and were severely beaten and stabbed.
That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob.
In response, the New York Times published a half-hearted correction which identified Tuvia Grossman as "an American student in Israel" -- not as a Jew who was beaten by Arabs. The "correction" also noted that "Mr. Grossman was wounded" in "Jerusalem's Old City" -- although the beating actually occurred in the Arab neighborhood of Wadi al Joz, not in the Old City.
In response to public outrage at the original error and the inadequate correction, The New York Times reprinted Tuvia Grossman's picture -- this time with the proper caption -- along with a full article detailing his near-lynching at the hands of Palestinians rioters.
Read Tuvia Grossman's in-depth, first-person account of his ordeal, entitled Victim of the Media War. www.aish.com/jewishissues/israeldiary/
The photo of a bloodied Tuvia Grossman became a symbol in the struggle to ensure that Israel receives the fair media coverage that every nation deserves.
In April 2002, a District Court in Paris ordered the French daily newspaper "Liberation" and the Associated Press to pay damages to Grossman in the amount of 4,500 Euro.
The Court condemned the Associated Press for "mispresenting [Grossman] as a member of the Palestinian community," while the court censured "Liberation" for "publishing the litigious picture with a comment edited the same faulty way, giving the picture a meaning and a scope it could not have."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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In light of the recent complicity in the Hezbolla Fraud perpetrated on the world via the willing 5th columnists in the media, I thought it would be interesting to see one of their original and flagrant lies to the American people and the world.
The print and broadcast media are our direct enemy, as assuredly as al-Qaeda is.
I now call them the PABE: The Print And Broadcast Enemy.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:42:15 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: Lazamataz
Praise be to Algore's internet.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:44:44 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:47:18 AM PDT
by
AliVeritas
(Talk to those who kill their own children, by Jihad/PR ? Remember Beslan.)
To: Lazamataz
Print and Broadcast Enemy about nails it. That Qana 'reporting' takes the cake. Maybe those guys could have helped Sergei Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkin.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:47:32 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Those who don't fight evil condemn those who do.)
To: Lazamataz
How can they possibly look at themselves and claim to be impartial?
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:47:53 AM PDT
by
Blogger
(http://www.propheteuon.com)
To: AliVeritas
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:48:16 AM PDT
by
AliVeritas
(Talk to those who kill their own children, by Jihad/PR ? Remember Beslan.)
To: Lazamataz
Yep.
Is this what yeshisassisfat used to stir up the masses?
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:49:35 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Liberals are as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar.)
To: Blogger
Simple: They're delusional. They think they're a "conservative" news organization, notwithstanding the fact they're a little left of Lenin.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:50:27 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: Lazamataz
To: b4its2late
I'm not sure about that. I just took a link on another thread that got me to that web site, but I thought it was so powerful in the face of the KanaFraud, that it should be brought forward as a full-bore thread.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:51:35 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
To: Blogger
How can they possibly look at themselves and claim to be impartial?Loosing your conscience is the first step to becoming a liberal.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:52:05 AM PDT
by
aimhigh
To: Lazamataz
Fraud, Is Right...We; the American Public, have been "subjected to it" for quite a few years from the (Stone Age / Drive-By) LMSM.....We're sick of the lying LMSM...but now; we have the FR and the 'net. :/
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:52:15 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :)
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:53:12 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
High volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. also
2006israelwar or WOT
..................
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:53:35 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
To: SJackson
Thanks for the exposure. In light of the KanaFraud, this is very relevant.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:54:33 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
To: Lazamataz
Absolutely. It deserves it's own thread. They report what they want to stir things up, and don't report what we should be seeing like how the muslim extremists are stirring up the masses to kill anyone who is not a muslim.
Did you see "Obsession: What The War on Terror Is Really About"? I watched it last night. It's something we must prepare for. I can post the link on this thread if you'd like. It's 1 hr 18 min but very riveting and well worth the time to view.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:55:58 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Liberals are as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar.)
To: Southack
This one's interesting if you hadn't seen it before.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:55:59 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
To: b4its2late
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:56:29 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
To: Lazamataz
Obsession: What The War on Terror Is Really AboutThis movie explores what all Radical Islamic Extremists, who only make up 10%-15% of the Muslim population, are really trying to do, and how. You have to see this movie to get a real prespective of the problems we have in the world.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:58:23 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Liberals are as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar.)
To: Xenalyte; Squantos; Travis McGee; Eaker; humblegunner; txflake
Just in case you haven't gotten pissed off today.
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posted on
08/03/2006 6:58:36 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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