Monday, February 02, 2009
The Media vs. The Propagandists
That's a match made in you know where.
Stories are published hastily and inaccurately.
Propagandists embellish and emphasize according to their agenda.
The world gets inaccurate information and forms opinion.
Nobody gets the facts right!...
Stories are published hastily and inaccurately.
Propagandists embellish and emphasize according to their agenda.
The world gets inaccurate information and forms opinion.
Nobody gets the facts right!...
Patrick Martin writes in the U.K.'s Globe and Mail:
"Most people remember the headlines: Massacre Of Innocents As UN School Is Shelled; Israeli Strike Kills Dozens At UN School.
They heralded the tragic news of Jan. 6, when mortar shells fired by advancing Israeli forces killed 43 civilians in the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The victims, it was reported, had taken refuge inside the Ibn Rushd Preparatory School for Boys, a facility run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
The news shocked the world and was compared to the 1996 Israeli attack on a UN compound in Qana, Lebanon, in which more than 100 people seeking refuge were killed. It was certain to hasten the end of Israel's attack on Gaza, and would undoubtedly lead the list of allegations of war crimes committed by Israel.
There was just one problem: The story, as etched in people's minds, was not quite accurate."
