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blade
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 Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:45 am Post subject: Does the media favour the Palestinians? |
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Not according to the authors of the book called bad news from Israel
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2075
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| According to the authors, television news is the main source of information on the Israel-Palestine conflict for about 80% of the population. Their research found that on British television, particularly on BBC1, there was a preponderance of official 'Israeli perspectives'. Israelis were interviewed or reported more than twice as much as Palestinians. There were also a large number of statements broadcast from US politicians who tended to strongly support Israel. These in turn were interviewed twice as much as politicians from Britain, with the strange result being that many British viewers will perhaps have come to know more about the US position on the Middle East than their own government's position. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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The Economist gave that book a terrible book review.
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| �The method of this book is to label as �pro-Israeli� any piece of reportage that doesnot conform to the particular anti-Israeli narrative of the researchers from Glasgow. Itbegins promisingly, with a potted history of the conflict acknowledging that everything about the story is hotly contested. And yet in much of what follows it istaken for granted that the present intifada is a war of liberation against a brutal andillegal occupation, and that any journalist who fails to hit the audience over the headwith this point of view at every opportunity is falling down on the job. It is pro-Israelibias, for example, to use the word �terrorism� to describe the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians at bus stops. Read something else.� |
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ManintheMiddle
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| I've been viewing the BBC, CNN International, FoxNews, Al-Jazeera, and MSNBC since the conflict began and of all of them I find the BBC coverage almost as slanted toward the Palestinian position as Al-Jazeera. |
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NoExplode
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:08 am Post subject: |
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bassexpander
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That's why Israel is using YouTube to get its word out. I love the quote they used about younger generations no longer paying attention to biased traditional international media outlets and favoring YouTube and blogs for video.
There's a story on CNN about this, I believe. |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| ManintheMiddle wrote: |
| I've been viewing the BBC, CNN International, FoxNews, Al-Jazeera, and MSNBC since the conflict began and of all of them I find the BBC coverage almost as slanted toward the Palestinian position as Al-Jazeera. |
That just settles it then doesn't it? If Steve Mcgarret says the BBC is biased against Israel then we should all just accept his worthless opinion now shouldn't we? |
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Jeff's Cigarettes
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Why don't you ask Nizar Rayyan? |
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bangbayed
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| It could just be the truth that's favouring the Palestinians. |
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samcheokguy
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human emotions favor the palestinians. any war with 4 dead on one side and 300 on the other seems a little unfair. It's like killing the Sioux indians or something. Israel needs to realize they aren't the US and can't get away with blowing up refugee camps every time some israeli guy dies. Al-Qaeda kills a few thousand americans in one day, and the US gets to launch a major response. Hamas launches bottle rockets with hand grendads inside and kills some dude. Israeli responds by bombing crowded civilian areas to hit the 'targets'. Guess what? Most people are going to get pissed
-It would be FAR more effective to send in infantry, walk house to house, and pay arabs to turn in Hamas, and guarantee safety to 'collaborators.' But no. Israeli doesn't want Arabs to have rights. Most Arab Israeli Politicans know this. In fact during the bombing of Lebanon, arab-israeli politicians were dragged OUT of the Kissnet. haha.democracy. Forget it. Israeli is always about the interests of one Israeli Jew over 10,000 arabs. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| bangbayed wrote: |
| It could just be the truth that's favouring the Palestinians. |
ROFLMAO
Not quite. |
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TheUrbanMyth
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Public opinion tends to favour the underdog. This has been true since before the days of David and Goliath. It helps if the underdog can shows heart-rending pictures of dead children allegedly killed by 'Goliath' (never mind that then said underdog sends out other children with bombs strapped to their chests in order to attack 'Goliath' and thus provoke more reprisals.) |
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Jandar
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| blade wrote: |
| ManintheMiddle wrote: |
| I've been viewing the BBC, CNN International, FoxNews, Al-Jazeera, and MSNBC since the conflict began and of all of them I find the BBC coverage almost as slanted toward the Palestinian position as Al-Jazeera. |
That just settles it then doesn't it? If Steve Mcgarret says the BBC is biased against Israel then we should all just accept his worthless opinion now shouldn't we? |
Let's see blades opinion or McGarrett's opinion?
Book 'em Danno. |
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Jandar
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| samcheokguy wrote: |
human emotions favor the palestinians. any war with 4 dead on one side and 300 on the other seems a little unfair. It's like killing the Sioux indians or something. Israel needs to realize they aren't the US and can't get away with blowing up refugee camps every time some israeli guy dies. Al-Qaeda kills a few thousand americans in one day, and the US gets to launch a major response. Hamas launches bottle rockets with hand grendads inside and kills some dude. Israeli responds by bombing crowded civilian areas to hit the 'targets'. Guess what? Most people are going to get pissed
-It would be FAR more effective to send in infantry, walk house to house, and pay arabs to turn in Hamas, and guarantee safety to 'collaborators.' But no. Israeli doesn't want Arabs to have rights. Most Arab Israeli Politicans know this. In fact during the bombing of Lebanon, arab-israeli politicians were dragged OUT of the Kissnet. haha.democracy. Forget it. Israeli is always about the interests of one Israeli Jew over 10,000 arabs. |
The ratio should be Higher.
Muslims 1,900,000,000 v. Jews 1,400,000
If it were equal retaliation you'd need 5200 Muslim dead for the 4 Israelis.
That would be proportional response. |
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Jandar
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| Public opinion tends to favour the underdog. This has been true since before the days of David and Goliath. It helps if the underdog can shows heart-rending pictures of dead children allegedly killed by 'Goliath' (never mind that then said underdog sends out other children with bombs strapped to their chests in order to attack 'Goliath' and thus provoke more reprisals.) |
Or uses the children to build and operate the smuggling tunnels.
Palestinian textbooks are used to recruit children to fight as soldiers for Hamas.
Hamas television programming for children is used a recruitment tool against the wishes of Fatah.
The use of child soldiers is characteristic of the Arab Nazi Party 1936-1939 during the Arab Revolt in Palestine.
Hamas does not love your children. |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Jandar wrote: |
| blade wrote: |
| ManintheMiddle wrote: |
| I've been viewing the BBC, CNN International, FoxNews, Al-Jazeera, and MSNBC since the conflict began and of all of them I find the BBC coverage almost as slanted toward the Palestinian position as Al-Jazeera. |
That just settles it then doesn't it? If Steve Mcgarret says the BBC is biased against Israel then we should all just accept his worthless opinion now shouldn't we? |
Let's see blades opinion or McGarrett's opinion?
Book 'em Danno. |
I provided a source at least what did Mcgarret provide? Nada! |
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