The below AFP picture appears on Yahoo pictures, with the following caption:
A combo picture of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (L) and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Sharon renewed his threats, insisting Arafat “would get what he deserves” as he recalled the fate of two assassinated leaders of the radical Hamas movement.(AFP)
In my mind, they sifted out the picture that makes Sharon look most evil and imposing, and then found a picture of Afatrat that makes him look placid. The message is clear: The evil Sharon is threatening the peaceful Arafat.
And still on the subject of media bias, this Brussels blogger has developed something really useful (hat tip: Michele):
This LGF entry describes how Canadian media organisation CanWest is replacing every instance of ‘militants’, ‘activists’, ‘gunmen’ etc. in Reuters dispatches by the more accurate and honest ‘terrorists’.Reuters is not happy about this, but, as some blogger would say, screw them.In order to support CanWest, I whipped up a quick Movable Type plugin, the CanWest filter. Just unzip and drop it into your MT plugins folder, and when publishing an MT entry select the ‘CanWest’ filter as text formatting.It will change all instances of the words militant, activist, fighter, gunman and resistance into the T-word…
Excellent.
