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Hamas' Extracurricular Activities and their Media Friends

Seeded on Wed Jan 7, 2009 3:16 AM EST
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Allow me to propose a metric for evaluating whether a journalist is behaving responsibly or not: If he reports that Israel bombed a UN school and killed 30 civilians, he is irresponsible. If he reports that Hamas used a UN school as a weapons cache and base of operations for launching mortars at the IDF, and the IDF's return fire killed the Hamas cell along, tragically, with a yet-unspecified number of civilians, then he is behaving responsibly. ..Journalists who abjure reporting the vital details of this story should be called what they are — activists masquerading as reporters.

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Damn straight.

  • 5 votes
Reply#1 - Wed Jan 7, 2009 10:47 PM EST
Waynester

Interesting comment on the Totten post that suggests that the media itself shares some culpability for the deaths of innocents. After all, if Hamas couldn't rely on the media to report the way it does would the human shiled strategy be so effective in the PR war?

Clipped to CCF

  • 8 votes
Reply#2 - Wed Jan 7, 2009 10:54 PM EST
Dennis M Wright

I have been saying this exact same thing for months or years, both about the mainstream media and even, in their own small way, Viners.

Hamas's game is to trade the lives of their fellows (Palestinian civilians) for column inches berating Israel.  So anyone who rewards Hamas's tactics by misrepresenting Israel's legitimate defence as "genocide", "disproportionate", "war crime" or appealing to emotions in order to obfuscate objectivity, is encouraging Hamas to deliberately draw yet more fire onto Palestinian civilians.

So in that sense they have blood on their hands, even if they think of themselves as "do-gooders" or driven by humanitarian goals.

You can mean well and be duped, or you might not mean well.  The calm and objective will see through it.

  • 7 votes
#2.1 - Thu Jan 8, 2009 4:45 AM EST
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worldknightboy

If he wishes to be particularly scrupulous, he might additionally note that Hamas had rigged the school with explosives which detonated after the IDF took out the mortar team, killing a large additional number of civilians. And he might add that you can go to the IDF’s Youtube channel to view footage from 2007 of Hamas using the very same school as a mortar-launching base.

We simply expect the msm to be something its uninterested in being for too long- fair and balanced.

  • 6 votes
Reply#3 - Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:46 AM EST
A Smith-300136

And yet the destruction of this school was used as an excuse to pass a UN resolution against Israel. The very idea that the media replays any of the propaganda being put out by hamas is just ridiculous. I doubt the truth behind the school will ever be reported by outlets like MSN.

The facts are that hamas has consistently used venues that the world considers "off limits" to air strikes as bases of operation. You can see the secondary explosions from the mosques getting bombed. You can see the secondary explosion of the "house" bombing that killed a dozen relatives of a hamas leader. These are being used as weapon depots and there is no way around that. The IDF special forces also have video evidence of the hospitals being used as hiding places for top hamas leaders as well as large numbers of gunman.

  • 4 votes
#3.1 - Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:25 PM EST
worldknightboy

Well, its no surprise then that the msm and the UN are hardly considered fair and balanced! I sure am less interested in listening to either anymore.

  • 4 votes
#3.2 - Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:58 PM EST
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