How the Media Works
I guess you could call the following a “joke”, but it is too true to be funny.
A guy in Paris sees a pit bull attacking a toddler. He kills the pit bull and saves the child’s life. Reporters swarmed the fellow.“Tell us! What’s your name? All Paris will love you! Tomorrow’s headline will be:
“Parisian Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!”
The guy says, “Well, I’m not from Paris.”
“Reporters: “That’s OK. Then the whole of France will love you and tomorrow’s headline will read: “French Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!”
The guy says, “I’m not from France, either.”
Reporters: “That’s OK also. All Europe will love you. Tomorrow’s headlines will shout:
“European Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!”
The guy says, “I’m not from Europe, either.
“Reporters: “So, where ARE you from?
The guy says, “I’m from Israel…”
The next day’s headlines read:
“Israeli Murders a Dog, Leaves a Girl Bleeding!”
“Israeli Brings Violence to Paris: a Pet is Murdered, Girl Wounded”
“Israeli Attack: One Dead, a Wounded Toddler Rescued”.
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
This isn’t a joke. Like you said, too true to be funny. Definitely correctly depicts the french’s sentiments towards Israel.
Also, Dave, I wanted to tell you that I’m in Israel right now and I saw that sign you posted a few weeks ago under “Only in Israel”.
I was so excited to see it after reading about it on your blog!
Did you get that from the BBC?
In view of such headlines, the persecution of the Israeli rescuer, it would be incentive to just let the dog maul away but that would lead to:
`gang of Israelis batter helpless child.’
All too true sadly. He should’ve let the dog maul the frog girl and walked away unnoticed. Lets be honest, a pit bull is infinately smarter than any french but would have in all likelyhood have choked on the fouled meat…
Well it is kind of funny how true it is, though
You forget to mention the rounds of international condemnation.
“UN convenes to discuss Israeli aggressions”
“EU condemns Israeli violence”
“French dogs vow revenge against Israel”