Tag: "Media Bias"

Separated at Birth: Peeping Tom Edition

Separated at Birth: Peeping Tom Edition

Some palestinian man and Wilson from Home Improvement. By the way, check out the caption to the photo of the palestinian man: A Palestinian man stands near the scene of a stabbing incident near the Damascus gate in the Old City of Jerusalem March 18, 2008. A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli rabbi in Arab East [...]

Inaccurate Reuters Caption of the Day

Inaccurate Reuters Caption of the Day

Israeli men pray as hundreds attend a memorial service for eight students, who were killed by a Palestinian gunman in a shooting attack last Thursday, in a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem March 13, 2008. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (JERUSALEM) Perhaps we can forgive the Reuters caption writer for thinking the Israelis are praying, although they are clearly [...]

AFP Shows Yet Again its Anti-Israel Bias

This is not unusual but it is a textbook case of how media bias works. Check out this AFP headline: Gaza violence lull ends with Israeli strikes, rockets In normal English this means that Israel ended the “lull” in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes and Israeli rockets. The first paragraph is slightly more accurate but no [...]

Nonchalant Fear

Nonchalant Fear

A Palestinian girl pulls another girl inside a shop as masked Israeli border police search an adjacent house in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, Tuesday March 11, 2008. Israeli police are holding the body of the Palestinian gunman from Jabel Mukaber who killed eight high school students at a Jerusalem seminary last week, [...]

Hometown Media Bias

Hometown Media Bias

A palestinian terrorist walks into a yeshiva and starts shooting at the young boys learning Torah, murdering 8 of the youngsters in cold blood before he himself is killed. By the Sunday after the attack, not only are pictures from the scene of the attack available, but also pictures of all the victims. If you [...]

Another Outrageous Reuters Caption

A student stands behind a podium as a video of Hezbollah’s Leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah plays during a pro-Palestinian meeting at a cultural centre in Tehran March 9, 2008. Students agreed on a one-million dollar reward for the murder of three Israeli commanders, Ehud Barak, Amos Yadlin and Meir Dagan. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN) A “pro-Palestinian” [...]

Martyr on the Wall

Martyr on the Wall

The AP has published this photo of a palestinian woman, having to restore order in her simple house after those mean IDF soldiers turned everything upside down. A Palestinian woman restores her back a room after Israeli troops raided a house in the Al Ain refugee camp of the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday, [...]

Magic Bullet

To amplify on something Dave wrote in the previous posting here: al-Aretz headlines: IDF kills infant, top Islamic Jihad militant in southern Gaza And in the details we learn: A two-week-old Palestinian infant was killed after nightfall on Tuesday in a brief Israel Defense Forces ground operation in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said, [...]

Creepy-Ass Black Hat Guy

Creepy-Ass Black Hat Guy

From the makers of Green Helmet Guy comes the latest head-covered terrorist propagandist: Creepy-Ass Black Hat Guy. People show journalists the body of a newborn Palestinian baby, who Palestinian medics said was killed by Israeli forces gunfire, in the central Gaza Strip March 4, 2008. Medical workers said the baby was killed and eight other [...]

Inaccurate Qassams and Inaccurate Reporting in the Guardian

The Guardian today includes this “fact” in its coverage of Gaza: The Qassam rockets are notoriously inaccurate – Hamas launched 28 yesterday and only 10 landed in Israel – but there are growing fears that the militants are acquiring an arsenal with a longer range. Yesterday, according to YNet, “over 30” rockets landed in Israel, [...]