Posted on 07/12/2006 8:38:16 PM PDT by jhp
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3274810,00.html
Reports coming in about IAF striking Beruit airport, if this is confirmed this is another sizable escalation. I think this article ought to be pinned.
Another rocket hits Nahariya
Another rocket hit a building in Nahariya, following several barrages earlier Thursday.
There are casualties, but their conditions are unclear. (Hagai Einav)
That Hizbollah television station is one of the most foul things broadcasting on the planet.
Good!
08:40 Jul-13-06
MDA: 16 Wounded in Rocket Attacks on Thursday Morning
I'm sure they are.... I just wish they wouldn't report what OUR folks are doing....wishful thinking, maybe.
I wish I'd thought of that to call him. ;-)
The participants aside, I know young people at our church who devote eight months of their free time working with the athletes.
It's a labor of love that's for sure, God bless them all. Without the young people helping them as much as they do, it would be very hard to continue. To see how they interact with the participants is a beautiful sight.
The experience changes them, profoundly.I can understand that. When I see stories about our youth gone wild, I remember the great ones that never make it into the news.
Nine casualties reported. The resort town’s high street, Gaaton Boulevard, took direct hits from four rockets, 10km from Lebanese border.
Hizballah claims 60 Katyusha and Grad rockets were fired into Israel early Thursday. Included are Kiryat Shemona, Rosh Pinah, Mishmar Hayarden, Mahanayim airfield and Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi. Some of these locations up to 20 km kilometers inside Israel have never before come under Hizballah attack. The Nahariya regional hospital has moved its wards to underground, bombproof facilities.
This sounds like a brand new strike. I thought I read on this thread that an attack copter struck a TV station, but this sounds like a new attack by fighter jets.
MDA: 16 Wounded in Rocket Attacks on Thursday Morning
08:40 Jul 13, '06 / 17 Tammuz 5766
(IsraelNN.com) Magen David Adom emergency medical service officials report 16 people have been treated on Thursday morning as a result of Katyusha rocket attacks into northern Israel.
One of the victims, a female close to 40, died of her massive injuries. One victim is reported in serious condition in Nahariya Hospital.
Katyusha Strikes a Building on Trumpeldor Street
08:30 Jul 13, '06 / 17 Tammuz 5766
(IsraelNN.com) A Katyusha rocket slammed into an apartment building on Trumpeldor Street in Nahariya. Injuries are being reported.
what did you think of my 508?
Comcast cable in Atlanta has CNN International; no BBC World, but supposedly the Beeb is launching a 24-hour news channel targeting the US market, and trying to get carriage for it.
Al-Jazeera International has pushed back its launch date again and again; I don't know what their current target is. No, I don't pretend for a moment it'll be a reliable news source, but you can still glean useful information if you apply the right filters.
In the Soviet days, folks got pretty good at reading between the lines of Pravda and Izvestia and got a better idea of that was going on than you might expect. Besides which, it never hurts to hear what the Arab world is hearing; the better not to be surprised by their reactions.
When there's breaking news in the overnight hours, CNN sometimes (but not as often as it used to) gives its signal over to CNN International. I don't know why Fox doesn't do the same with its corporate cousin, Sky News. It wouldn't be as good as having their own talent on screen, but it'd be a lot better than re-runs. All I can figure is that their agreements with their video sources don't cover the US; I hope they fix that as they renew them.
I wouldn't suggest pre-empting programming across the dial, the way the media conglomerates did on 9/11/2001, but I'd like to think that with the vastness of the modern cable dial, each of the big companies (News Corp., Time Warner, Viacom) could spare at least one widely-avaiable channel for news of this magnitude.
But the trend on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC seems to be toward fewer hours of live overnight and weekend coverage. They have market research I don't, so I can only assume that it isn't cost-effective; anyone who's that interested in news at this hour has fast Internet access, I guess.
there were about 4 threads posted on the same subject one after the other...the thread went for some time but eventually was pulled, I guess to consolidate the thread. No need for 4 separate threads posted withion seconds of each other..
Thank you for finding the right words that I could not. That is what I meant.
I think it is.
One of the biggest stories of the year is happening in Beirut right now, and fox news is running a pre-tapped show of Neil Cuvuto talking to Richard Simmons about fat kids.
Unbelievable.
I hope Pres. Bush takes a clue from the Israelis about letting Al-jezerra continue broadcasting.
I'm just amazed that people would view CNN, or Peter Jennings, or Matt Lauer, or Katie Couric, which they openly state as despising and detest, but scoff at Nightline for some reason.
The shows changed immensely since Koppel left. Frankly, my opionion is that all news shows should look to Nightline as a model on how to do a news show. Nightline reports facts. There are no talking heads sitting at a desk, opinionating, or editorializing. There are three anchors that host three different segments (sometimes one or two are working on a story, so one hosts all three). They anchor the story, with footage shot of them (or special correspondant) interviewing the people of interest in the field.
One of the Faith Matters specials they did, with Martin Bashir doing the interview, was interview Ray Comfort & Kirk Cameron. I was so impressed with that segment, that I went online to lookup the website. I mentioned that I'm evengelical fundamental Christian and can spot doctrinal error a mile away. These guys are spot on. I know exactly what they're doing because I've done some of it myself personally (open air evanglism).
Terry Moran did a weeklong special on Gitmo last week. He came to the party loaded with all the questions of human rights abuses. But what the veiwer came away with, if they were intellectually honest with themselves, there is no evidence whatsoever of human rights abuses. In fact, Terry Moran summarized it pretty succinctly one night: Gitmo raises some pretty serious issues with respect to personal freedom and due process and what not, but given the times we live in perhaps theres a need for what goes on here.
In fact, it was made pretty clear, and the footage shown showed it explicitely that the incarcerating personell were bending over backwards for the prisoners well-being. In fact it was pointed out that a great deal of the prisoners live better in Gitmo than they would in their home countries. They said that there were a lot of prisoners that they had no idea what to do with. Even if the U.S. wanted to let them go (in that they couldn't be charged with anything), its was already made expressly clear their home countries wouldn't take them back. And the rest are known absolutely to be bad guys (and very bad guys indeed). And it was made expressly clear that in war intel is of utmost importance. They said they'd never let these guys go because the intel they provide is just too valuable, and furthermore their buddies in the field have no clue with respect to how their pals in Gitmo may be singing.
You could see on many occassions that Terry Moran was absolutely floored at what he was being shown. It was clear that Terry's attitude was he expected a gulag, when instead he encountered a Hilton of sorts. They showed the food the prisoners ate, they showed their cells, they showed their personal effects that were provided. It was clear that quite often Terry was dumbfounded. It was also made clear that not all the prisoners live like that at all times. It was expressed by those in authority that there were other accomodations that were quite a bit more austere that was reserved for "troublemakers". It was made expresslly clear that the prisoners were NOT being coddled by no stretch. Frankly, what was shown is really not all that different from any prison in the U.S., except prisoners at Gitmo are interogated. They even delved into the interogation techniques, and the use of psychologists in the process. It was stressed that they were not there to heighten pain/discomfort, but to facilitate and optimize the interogation process so as to make it most efficient.
All in all it was a quite fascinating window into that world (given all the negativity I've heard about it). Frankly, after that weeks segment, I fail to see how anybody could come away from it with negativity (if they were intellectually honest with themselves). If but for we are at war, I truly wish we wouldn't have to resort to those measure, but alas such is not the case.
But I digress...
For breaking news CNN is best, until they figure out how to spin it that is.
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