Wednesday, December 03, 2008

What side are the media on?

From Prarie Pundit:
When it comes to terrorists and their grievances, nearly all the Western media have provided them with a rich diet on which to feed.

In the spring of 2005, Newsweek ran with a thinly sourced item about the Quran being flushed down a Guantanamo toilet. Result: At least 15 people were killed in Afghan riots.

Newsweek later retracted the story, which was the right thing to do but also, in its way, exceptional. Compare that to the refusal of French reporter Charles Enderlin and his station, France 2, to retract or even express doubt about his September 2000 report on Mohammed al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy allegedly killed by Israeli soldiers during an exchange of gunfire in the Gaza Strip -- an exchange Mr. Enderlin did not witness.

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The media is quick to follow the enemy script whether it is the bombing of wedding parties are blaming the US for not stopping the enemy attacks on noncombatants. How many stories have you seen about enemy war crimes? The attacks on Mumbai are clearly war crimes. Targeting noncombatants deliberately is a war crime. So where are those stories?

They don't fit the "AmeriKKKa" narrative beloved by the left.

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