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Re: The skinny on Jenin, the European Press
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Sat, 25 May 2002 07:07:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> 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".++++++
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> 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.
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.
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> 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.
Possibly. But again, the arrogance, the willingness to go *way* beyond the
boundaries of reporting. By their actions, *they* actually became the story of
Jenin themselves! Their complete incompetance is the story here, not anything
the Israelis or Palestinians did. That to me is astounding.
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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
lol The Palestinians didn't have to do *anything* to manage this "coup" (well,
one completely unreliable witness did). The European media did it for them
(but of course, it's backfired on them).
As far as Israel reconsidering its media policy, I'd say that this scenario
played out pretty well for them. They acted "properly", they were able to
successfully root out many terrorists, and the pro-Palestinian European media
was exposed for the hack journalists (at least WRT to this conflict) that
they are.
The only downside is, of course, that for about a month the world was being
told lies that Israel had committed a massacre. I guess it would be too
optimistic to expect printed retractions or apologies....
-John
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