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Re: The skinny on Jenin, the European Press
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Sat, 25 May 2002 06:21:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> +++++++The whole point is that the job of the press is to report the *facts*,
> not spew their ideological agendas in the guise of "balanced reporting".++++++
This is more of an unobtainable goal than an actual job description.
Balanced reporting is a moving target and the best a reader can hope for is
to understand the bias of the author of any given text -- then the reader is
well positioned to draw out the facts surrounding an issue, couched as they
are in the author's opinions.
Criticizing European journalists for excesses in the face of Israeli
stonewalling may be justified, and in some cases they do really seem to have
gone too far, but it does overlook the possible motivation of trying to
force Israel's hand in giving up the goods on what went down in Jenin. And
that's really all that was wanted -- access to the site for the purpose of
assessing what happened. Israel chose to play games with the U.N. and
Amnesty International instead.
Israel should reconsider the sense of allowing only one side of a story to
stand for the truth. Once the U.N. and A.I. gained access, I didn't hear of
anything extraordinarily shocking having been done by the Israelis -- all
their prevaricating turned out to be an attempt to hide nothing at all. So
just what the fuss was all about is now a matter of speculation.
If the Palestinians managed a small coup with the press during Israel's long
and combative silence before the world, the Israelis have only themselves to
blame.
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) I agree. What irks me is the unwillingness of the media to acknowledge their own leftist leanings in their reporting, and their willingness to go way beyond the scope of their job description. (...) Possibly. But again, the arrogance, the (...) (22 years ago, 25-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) "Serious"??? As opposed to what other kind?:-) Well anyway, from the left, the center does appear to be the right;-) The reason the rumours of a "massacre" lived so (...) No, the rumors persisted because the media was so jaded by their bias (...) (22 years ago, 25-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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