When it comes to factual reporting about the Gaza strip and Israel, CNN is right there at the bottom of the list.
CNN’s take on the KGFC story by Brad Lendon brings us this falsehood:
When employees last month had a taste for some finger-lickin’ good stuff, they called a friend just over the Gaza border in al-Arish, Egypt, and asked him to order some up. He did so and sent it to Gaza through one of the hundreds of tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border used to get goods into Gaza prohibited by Israeli restrictions, things such as weapons and cars.
Cars aren’t prohibited, in fact, there are too many cars!
In CNN’s report on the Arab Idol contestant from Gaza, Samira Said writes this dissonant trope:
It was no small task for Assaf to travel to Cairo to audition for the wildly popular show.
“He needed a visa (to cross the Gaza-Egypt border), but he didn’t have one,” his father, Jabar, told CNN from Khan Younis, a refugee camp in Gaza. Israel imposes a blockade on Gaza, leaving residents without access to an airport.
Palestinian officials had to make special arrangements for Assaf to leave Gaza, his mother, UmShadi, a math teacher, explained. By the time he arrived in Cairo, the doors to the venue where auditions were held had already closed.
“So he jumped the wall,” she said. Security guards seized him and were going to escort him out when a Palestinian official with the show recognized Assaf from his performances in Gaza and gave him a candidate number, allowing him to compete.
She just HAD to include the part about Israel, when the whole story revolves around the border between Egypt and Gaza, where Hamas and Egypt are involved in a pissing contest on who can make the life of Gazans more miserable (Israel has no presence there whatsoever).
Just another normal, Israel bashing day at CNN.
Update: Speak of the devil:
Egyptian policemen block crossing with Gaza
Egyptian policemen blocked the crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest against the kidnapping of Egyptian security forces in the Sinai, witnesses and sources said.
Locals said police had placed barbed wire across the entrance to the border and closed the gates with chains, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded on both sides of the fence.
