Atrocities of the British Press

Honest Reporting.com ^ | 16 April 2002

[hellinahandcart]

If all the evidence you've got is a bunch of pansies moaning about a "stench", you're really wasting our time. Journalists' adjectives are not evidence. I have been watching television since reporters were allowed back into Jenin and so far they have shown me absolutely nothing except a few collapsed buildings (and it would take a few thousand of those to impress me in any way). Instead of wrinkling their noses about a bad smell, like the prissy elitists they are, why aren't they doing something useful and instructive--like interviewing the wounded survivors who were pulled out of the rubble yesterday and taken to Jenin Hospital?

Oh, that right, I forgot. That was another Palestinian lie. No one was pulled out and taken to the hospital. Too bad. They could have laid it on really thick with some tearful survivor testimony from a hospital bed.

What am I saying, they're probably putting bandages and fake blood on one of their spokesman as we speak.

[rmvh]

Re your # 21 ..you're really wasting our time.

Our time?....Our? Thats as far as I got in your post as clearly, your just part of...what is now widely known as..."The Merry Little Band of Jewish Apologists"

[mngalt]

Better that than a terrorist sympathizer, who has not even a glancing acquaintance with the truth or rationality.

[hellinahandcart]

Our time?....Our?

Yes, "our". On this thread, "our time" would refer to the time of American in Israel, Sender, tomahawk, HockeyPop, swarthyguy, besieged, Stultis, Sub-Driver, monday, My Identity, and Travis McGee. And anyone else who read your silly post without responding.

Thats as far as I got in your post as clearly, your just part of...what is now widely known as..."The Merry Little Band of Jewish Apologists"

I'll take that as an admission that YOU GOT NOTHING. It's been two days and the rubble just ain't that deep, hon. Where's the skyrocketing body count? Where are all the hideously slain women, children, and infants? Where are all the human entrails the IDF played jumprope with in the midst of their killing frenzy?

You said it's there for the whole world to see, so where is it?

[monkeyshine]

There is all kinds of stuff being alleged. I read an article claiming that 10 people were buried alive, and called for help on the telephone. And the 30 bodies buried beneath the rubble, etc.

This will all likely turn out to be lies and propaganda. So, will the press admit that they ran with sensationalism? That there were so many lies and distortions? Does the media run with the story from Al-Ahram detailing how at least 50 homes were wired with bombs by the Palestinians, causing much of the devastation you see on TV? No, of course not.

I'm sick of the mass media. They are so overtly biased by reporting innuendo as fact, and by remaining silent when evidence surfaces to disprove their innuendo.

[stands2reason]

I have three words to say about journalists' descriptions: "Brutal Afghan winter."

[okie01]

Under the circumstances, a rational person must choose from either of two alternatives --

1. Trust the Israelis, who have been consistently trustworthy.

2. Or trust the Palestinians, who have proven themselves to be unabashed liars.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Whom to trust...???

[mrustow]

Tremendous article!

The Independent, The Telegraph, and The Times of London all quote the same lone individual, 28-year-old Kamal Anis, who said that "he saw the Israeli soldiers pile 30 bodies beneath a half-wrecked house. When the pile was complete, they bulldozed the building, bringing its ruins down on the corpses. Then they flattened the area with a tank." (The Independent)

The BBC published a similar bit of agitprop on 4/18.

[mrustow]

Of related interest:

The Making of a "Pacifist": Adam Shapiro and Our Goebbelsian Media

[rmvh]

re your # 27...Under the circumstances, a rational person must choose from either of two alternatives -- 1. Trust the Israelis, who have been consistently trustworthy. 2. Or trust the Palestinians, who have proven themselves to be unabashed liars.

Well, you may see only two alternatives but there are more, one of which is to trust neither and look for facts where the source has absolutely nothing to gain or loose from the information provided and, inturn, has demonstrated friendship to the U.S.

It is a fact that the Jews and Arabs hate each other, are killing each other's innocents, and deserve no trust as the information provided is always self serving.

[okie01]

"...one of which is to trust neither and look for facts where the source has absolutely nothing to gain or loose from the information provided and, inturn, has demonstrated friendship to the U.S."

I agree, of course. And also observe that your specifications would clearly disqualify the Guardian, the Independent, etc.