The Photo That Started It All (Media lying via the camera)

HonestReporting.com ^ | Oct 20, 2002

[Lazamataz]

The Photo that Started it All

On the day the Intafada broke out, Tuvia Grossman was riding a taxi to visit the Western Wall. He was unwittingly thrust into the international limelight -- and nearly killed in the process.

On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man -- bloodied and battered -- crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of the recent riots -- with the clear implication that the Israeli soldier is the one who beat him.

The victim's true identity was revealed when Dr. Aaron Grossman of Chicago sent the following letter to the Times:

Regarding your picture on page A5 of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount -- that Palestinian is actually my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while traveling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs, and were severely beaten and stabbed.

That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob.

In response, the New York Times published a half-hearted correction which identified Tuvia Grossman as "an American student in Israel" -- not as a Jew who was beaten by Arabs. The "correction" also noted that "Mr. Grossman was wounded" in "Jerusalem's Old City" -- although the beating actually occurred in the Arab neighborhood of Wadi al Joz, not in the Old City.

In response to public outrage at the original error and the inadequate correction, The New York Times reprinted Tuvia Grossman's picture -- this time with the proper caption -- along with a full article detailing his near-lynching at the hands of Palestinians rioters.

Read Tuvia Grossman's in-depth, first-person account of his ordeal, entitled Victim of the Media War. www.aish.com/jewishissues/israeldiary/

The photo of a bloodied Tuvia Grossman became a symbol in the struggle to ensure that Israel receives the fair media coverage that every nation deserves.

In April 2002, a District Court in Paris ordered the French daily newspaper "Liberation" and the Associated Press to pay damages to Grossman in the amount of 4,500 Euro.

The Court condemned the Associated Press for "mispresenting [Grossman] as a member of the Palestinian community," while the court censured "Liberation" for "publishing the litigious picture with a comment edited the same faulty way, giving the picture a meaning and a scope it could not have."

[Lazamataz]

In light of the recent complicity in the Hezbolla Fraud perpetrated on the world via the willing 5th columnists in the media, I thought it would be interesting to see one of their original and flagrant lies to the American people and the world.

The print and broadcast media are our direct enemy, as assuredly as al-Qaeda is.

I now call them the PABE: The Print And Broadcast Enemy.

[mtbopfuyn]

Praise be to Algore's internet.

[AliVeritas]

BTTT

[.cnI redruM]

Print and Broadcast Enemy about nails it. That Qana 'reporting' takes the cake. Maybe those guys could have helped Sergei Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkin.

[Blogger]

How can they possibly look at themselves and claim to be impartial?

[AliVeritas]

Bookmark

[b4its2late]

Yep.

Is this what yeshisassisfat used to stir up the masses?

[coloradan]

Simple: They're delusional. They think they're a "conservative" news organization, notwithstanding the fact they're a little left of Lenin.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Bookmarking.

[Lazamataz]

I'm not sure about that. I just took a link on another thread that got me to that web site, but I thought it was so powerful in the face of the KanaFraud, that it should be brought forward as a full-bore thread.

[aimhigh]

How can they possibly look at themselves and claim to be impartial?

Loosing your conscience is the first step to becoming a liberal.

[skinkinthegrass]

Fraud, Is Right...We; the American Public, have been "subjected to it" for quite a few years from the (Stone Age / Drive-By) LMSM.....We're sick of the lying LMSM...but now; we have the FR and the 'net. :/

[SJackson]

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[SJackson]

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[Lazamataz]

Thanks for the exposure. In light of the KanaFraud, this is very relevant.

[b4its2late]

Absolutely. It deserves it's own thread. They report what they want to stir things up, and don't report what we should be seeing like how the muslim extremists are stirring up the masses to kill anyone who is not a muslim.

Did you see "Obsession: What The War on Terror Is Really About"? I watched it last night. It's something we must prepare for. I can post the link on this thread if you'd like. It's 1 hr 18 min but very riveting and well worth the time to view.

[Lazamataz]

This one's interesting if you hadn't seen it before.

[Lazamataz]

Link away!

[b4its2late]

Obsession: What The War on Terror Is Really About

This movie explores what all Radical Islamic Extremists, who only make up 10%-15% of the Muslim population, are really trying to do, and how. You have to see this movie to get a real prespective of the problems we have in the world.

[Lazamataz]

Just in case you haven't gotten pissed off today.