Medias Bias Strikes Again, in Ways Big and Small
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Aug 25 2006 at 6:31 am | Filed under: Feature Article, Hezbollah, Israel
Here’s the headline: “Israelis kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza.” The picture that Yahoo News is currently showing with this headlined story is of an injured boy in a hospital bed with an elderly woman sitting next to him. Sort the whole thing out and this is what you get: the picture has nothing to do with the story. Instead, it’s about a boy injured by a cluster bomb, a picture accompanied by this Reuter’s text:
It looks innocuous, but a careless kick from a passing child would detonate this cluster bomb, one of thousands of unexploded devices Israel scattered over the towns, villages and hillsides of South Lebanon during its 34-day war with Hizbollah fighters.
Funnily enough, I have no memory of Reuters photos of Hezbollah missiles loaded with ball bearings, or of Israeli civilians killed or injured by those missiles, all of which were targeted at civilians. But yes, typical for me, I’m digressing again. I want to get back to that story about those three dead Palestinians.
Palestinians, Gaza, Yahoo, cluster bomb, Israel, Hezbollah
