North Korea wishes that they had such propaganda like the Liberal Media
Posted on 11/19/2023 2:33:27 PM PST by Rusty0604
the Israeli media monitoring site, Honest Reporting, dropped the equivalent of an ethical bomb last week.
Their stunning Nov. 8 exposé – “Broken Borders: AP & Reuters Photographs of Hamas Atrocities Raise Ethical Questions” – revealed appalling behavior by some of the biggest brand names in the global mainstream media.
“On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel,” the report began.
“Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.”
What were they (the freelance photographers) doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning?
Was it coordinated with Hamas?
Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators?
Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and the New York Times, notify these outlets?
(Excerpt) Read more at allisrael.com ...
Their stunning Nov. 8 exposé – “Broken Borders: AP & Reuters Photographs of Hamas Atrocities Raise Ethical Questions” – revealed appalling behavior by some of the biggest brand names in the global mainstream media.
“On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel,” the report began.
“Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.”
Among them:
What were they (the freelance photographers) doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning?
Was it coordinated with Hamas?
Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators?
Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and the New York Times, notify these outlets?
Honest Reporting noted that “four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.”
“Eslaiah, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Aza….[P]hotos he took in Kfar Aza show Hamas terrorists trying to breach the Kibbutz’s fence and a burning house inside the community.”
As ALL ISRAEL NEWS Editor-in-Chief Joel C. Rosenberg has reported after touring the village, Kfar Aza was one of the Israeli border communities most devastated by Hamas, a place where at least 40 babies were slaughtered and some of them were decapitated.
How could a reporter from the Associated Press have actually been on site, taking pictures in real-time, when no one knew the attack was coming, least of all the Israeli military or the residents of Kfar Aza?
Honest Reporting also noted that Eslaiah had been previously photographed being embraced by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, widely considered the mastermind of the genocidal attacks on Oct. 7.
The mass media is enemy #1 of our thinking public.
>> when no one knew the attack was coming
Believed that to be total BS ever since having knowledge of the massacre.
“Morally bankrupt “ is the most mild term I would attribute to these scum. By using the video clips, by paying these complicit “reporters,” they are themselves complicit in some of the greatest evil seen since 1945. May they all be haunted by nightmares for the rest of their miserable lives.
Did they participate in the rapes?
What about the child murders? Any useful video of those?
They'll have their legal teams come up with some good "Viewer Warning" language.
Warning: The Following Photojournalism Footage Contains Graphics Scenes Of The Rape And Murder Of Jews. Viewer Discretion Is Advised.
We now have a real-life answer to the hypothetical asked of American media journalists.
From 2004: Sensitivity and the Journalistic Mission
Mike Wallace of CBS News' 60 Minutes opened the final session by addressing the question offered by the session organizers, "Are we journalists first or something else? We are journalists," he argued, and as the session played out, the implications of that answer took on a growing importance."It was one of those Fred Friendly seminars on television and the hypothetical was that Peter Jennings and Mile Wallace, got the opportunity to go out on patrol with .. a North Vietnamese patrol in the Vietnam war .. with a camera crew and so forth. All of a sudden about 150 yards away, they suddenly realized there's a South Vietnamese patrol coming and with them maybe half a dozen American advisors.
"Now here you are. You're an American, you're a reporter, you've finally gotten the opportunity to cover this story, and suddenly you see South Vietnamese and more important ... Americans there too. The questioner, Charlie Ogletree, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School .. said to Mr. Jennings, "Peter, what do you do?" Peter thought for a full 10 or 15 seconds and then said, "Well, I'd probably lose my life for doing it, but I would call, I would shout, and I would warn my American countrymen what was about to happen to them, that they were about to walk into an ambush."
"Charlie turns to me. "Mr. Wallace, what about yourself?" Well, I am a contrarian by nature. Mind you, this is live on tape, and it's going to be broadcast and you're thinking oh, come on. I say, "I'm a reporter. I'm a reporter here to cover this story." It didn't occur to me at that moment that I'd undoubtedly get killed the way that Jennings thought he was going to get killed if he were to shout. But when you are covering a story of that nature or any nature, what are you first? You are, in my estimation, a reporter."
"Incidentally, I was sitting beside, on the panel, General William Westmoreland who looked at me like a hair in his soup."
"Jennings listened to me and said, 'You know something? I'm sorry I didn't think it through correctly. Mike was right. We are reporters first.'"
Charles Gibson: "When you said, 'I am a reporter first,' tell me what you meant."
Mike Wallace: "I'm not an American first, I'm a reporter first. What Jim Fallows was saying. Hey, Americans hate the press because of journalists' feeling that their job is holy. (His implication is that) your responsibility is to save those Americans out there. Forget about getting the story. Forget about getting the story. Be an American. Save those people whom you conceivably can save from being ambushed.
The mind of the American journalist has only gotten worse since then.
-PJ
I can’t say on this forum what I wish upon them.
Sickening.
There’s pretty convincing evidence that there is a large population of individuals who would find such material delightful.
That photo was creepy, and more than a mere embrace!
Those traitors are aiding and abetting the enemies of our ally and should be apprehended and charged with whatever assortment of crimes they’ve allegedly committed.
Thanks for that story. These days reporters are anti-american first.
Democrat Pat Caddell: “The media is the enemy or the American People”.
Scum
Nor I - it would significantly increase my odds of a government-paid, one-way trip to Cuba.
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