Posted on 08/02/2006 6:50:10 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Large sections of the international media are not only misreporting the current conflict in Lebanon. They are also actively fanning the flames of unrest.
The BBC World Service has a strong claim to be the number-one villain. It has come to sound like a virtual propaganda tool for Hezbollah. And as it desperately attempts to prove that Israel is guilty of committing “ war crimes” and “ crimes against humanity,” it has introduced a new charge — one which I have heard several times on air in recent days.
The newscaster reads out carefully selected “ audience comments.” Among these are invariably contained some version of the claim that “ Israel’s attack on Lebanon” will serve as a “ recruitment” drive for al Qaeda.
But if anything is going to win new recruits for the likes of Osama bin Laden, it will not be Israel’s defensive actions, which are far less damaging than Western TV stations would have us believe, but the inflammatory and hopelessly one-sided way in which they are being reported by those very same news organizations.
While the slanted comments and interviews are bad enough, the degree of pictorial distortion is even worse. From the way many TV stations worldwide are portraying it, you would think Beirut has begun to resemble Dresden and Hamburg in the aftermath of World War II air raids. International television channels have used the same footage of Beirut over and over, showing the destruction of a few individual buildings in a manner which suggests half the city has been razed.
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One can only hope that if we were ever attacked and the enemy took control of the media, that these would be the first ones sent off to the reeducation camps, followed by college professors.
If the Media have become agents of the enemy, they can become fair game for the IDF.The media thinks that 1st amendment rights operate in a foreign theater of war. Pretty soon the reporters in the field will start having accidents, as soldiers are given the OK to pot reporters who are hanging with Hezzies.
IDF: OOOOOPs , I pulled on a car with a reporter in it. MY BAD! OOOOPS I did it again, collateral damage!Gee thats 26 reporters I accidentally capped today, Sorry, OOOOPs there goes another one! OMG, there's Dan Rather, OOOPs , SORRY DAN, collateral damage.
This is where the MSM are headed and they don't even know it, and I for one will cheer the IDF on, big time.
What a great opportunity to be rid of the MSM traitors.
It is no wonder then that Israel--God's chosen people--is morally equivalated (new word?) to Hezbollah--and George Bush is called a Nazi. It is part of the "massage" on our minds being performed by those who have a visceral hatred of truth-- and therefore twist and distort it as willfully as the Nazi's did. It is no surprise that they followed and worshiped a twisted cross.
That would be "equated with" Hezbollah --.
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