The media's enduring narratives

CarolineGlick.com ^ | 7/8/2008 | Caroline Glick

[mojito]

Last Wednesday's terror attack in Jerusalem was unique. Due to the fact that Husam Taysir Dwayat bulldozed his victims outside of Jerusalem Capitol Studios where many of the foreign television networks have their offices, his was one of only two attacks to have been caught live on camera....

On Friday, the BBC published an apology for broadcasting the footage of Wednesday's carnage. The film showed an unarmed, furloughed IDF commando climb onto Dwayat's bulldozer just after Dwayat murdered Batsheva Unterman by crushing her car. It showed the soldier grabbing a gun belonging to a security guard who was unsuccessfully trying to restrain Dwayat and shooting Dwayat three times in the head. The film did not show Dwayat or any of his victims dying. What it showed was the terror of the wounded, Dwayat's murderousness and the soldier's heroism.

Yet, the network declared, "It's not normally the BBC's policy to show the moment of death on screen. These are always extremely difficult decisions to make. However, on reflection, we felt that the pictures featured on Wednesday's News at Ten did not strike the right editorial balance between the demands of accuracy and the potential impact on the program's audience."

[mojito]

Footage showing a murderous Palestinian and a heroic Israeli soldier didn't "strike the right editorial balance."

Oh, that's rich. Even for the BBC, that's rich.

[Carley]

Let’s not show the moment of death unless it’s an innocent Israeli.

And about that fake death of the man supposedly protecting his son from Israeli bullets.

Give me a break.

[djsherin]

Showing what happened is something to apologoze for? Oh I forgot, liberals don’t like the truth or facts.

[econjack]

My thoughts exactly. Here we are again at the political correctness apology wall asking to be forgiven for showing the brutality of terrorism. Yet, the terrorists have no problem showing beheadings on any venue that will air it. The BBC and anyone else who thinks PC is the way to go can take their PC and stick it where the sun never shines.

[Bahbah]

It showed the soldier grabbing a gun belonging to a security guard who was unsuccessfully trying to restrain Dwayat and shooting Dwayat three times in the head. The film did not show Dwayat or any of his victims dying.

Well, I confess, this was my favorite part, and I'm pretty sure when that brave Israeli fired those head shots, I was witnessing the "moment of death" of that terrorist and it was most satisfying.

[djsherin]

Agreed.

[Paladin2]

It’s good to see someone working to “Stop Jihad Now!”.