A simple proof of the media distortion regarding Israel

[Loren Pechtel]

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Note that while the BBC picked up the incident almost no other major news organization did. When Israeli children die of terrorism it's unimportant.

 

[Jarhyn]

Let me save you a whole thread worth of discussion on this. We've been through this a few times now.

"It sucks that this girl was killed by terrorists. Terrorism is wrong and shame on anyone who uses it to attempt to achieve their goals. But that does not justify Israeli aggression and casualties inflicted in any kind of revenge or retaliatiatory response, especially by a coordinated military force. These casualties do not justify continued crimes against humanity by an empowered government actor, and they do not justify continued western support of an ethnostate."

 

[Half-Life]

Let me save you a whole thread worth of discussion on this. We've been through this a few times now.

"It sucks that this girl was killed by terrorists. Terrorism is wrong and shame on anyone who uses it to attempt to achieve their goals. But that does not justify Israeli aggression and casualties inflicted in any kind of revenge or retaliatiatory response, especially by a coordinated military force. These casualties do not justify continued crimes against humanity by an empowered government actor, and they do not justify continued western support of an ethnostate."

It's not an ethnostate if 21% of the population is Arab.

Blacks are 13% of the U.S. Do we have an ethnostate?

 

[Jarhyn]

Yes, we did have an ethnostate particularly prior to the Civil Rights movement with Jim Crow and before that, reduced citizenship and before that slavery. Apartheid South Africa was an ethnostate despite being majority black.

The key of an ethnostate is the whole Apartheid part, where minority groups are brutally suppressed from political representation, barred through legal or functional hurdles from accessing education, and wherein immigration is controlled on the basis of ethnic/religious membership.

 

[Arctish]

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Note that while the BBC picked up the incident almost no other major news organization did. When Israeli children die of terrorism it's unimportant.

Hmmm...

I'm finding original reporting and Associated Press articles on the attack at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, US News and World Report, ABC, CBS, CBN, MSN, and a whole lot more.

 

[laughing dog]

Search for Rina Shnerb

Note that while the BBC picked up the incident almost no other major news organization did. When Israeli children die of terrorism it's unimportant.

Hmmm...

I'm finding original reporting and Associated Press articles on the attack at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, US News and World Report, ABC, CBS, CBN, MSN, and a whole lot more.

Excellent rebuttal to the OP.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Search for Rina Shnerb

Note that while the BBC picked up the incident almost no other major news organization did. When Israeli children die of terrorism it's unimportant.

Hmmm...

I'm finding original reporting and Associated Press articles on the attack at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, US News and World Report, ABC, CBS, CBN, MSN, and a whole lot more.

Excellent rebuttal to the OP.

Yeah, that pretty much ends the discussion right there.

Unless we want to get into this very common "meme" (for lack of a better word) of late where someone asserts that pet event X didn't get any news coverage, in spite of the fact that (a) it did and (b) so what? The amount of news outlets covering something isn't a measure of anything substantive or even remotely relevant. Maybe it was twenty years ago when it was the editorial team that drove the news cycle, but these days, there is no such thing as driving the news cycle. It pretty much drives itself (unless we're talking about clandestine influence).

That was a big one for the Sanders bots--the whole, "Nobody is covering him" whine--but it was used as an "underdog" strategy, not anything meaningful.

We need to add that to the grand list of fallacies. It's sort of an amalgam of tu quoque, argument from incredulity and strawman.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Search for Rina Shnerb

Note that while the BBC picked up the incident almost no other major news organization did. When Israeli children die of terrorism it's unimportant.

Hmmm...

I'm finding original reporting and Associated Press articles on the attack at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, US News and World Report, ABC, CBS, CBN, MSN, and a whole lot more.

A bunch of reports that don't even care about who she is--those don't come up for a search on her name.

 

[Ford]

Search for Rina Shnerbt.

Why?

When Israeli children die of terrorism it's unimportant.

Ah, because "the media" doesn't focus sufficiently on the death of one person you extrapolate that to mean the entire media landscape is biased against poor, defenseless Israel. Give us a fucking break, already.

 

[laughing dog]

Search for Rina Shnerb

Note that while the BBC picked up the incident almost no other major news organization did. When Israeli children die of terrorism it's unimportant.

Hmmm...

I'm finding original reporting and Associated Press articles on the attack at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, US News and World Report, ABC, CBS, CBN, MSN, and a whole lot more.

A bunch of reports that don't even care about who she is--those don't come up for a search on her name.

Contrary to your claim, those reports are about terrorists attack. So, the claim in the OP has been shown to be blatantly false.

 

[Arctish]

Search for Rina Shnerb

Note that while the BBC picked up the incident almost no other major news organization did. When Israeli children die of terrorism it's unimportant.

Hmmm...

I'm finding original reporting and Associated Press articles on the attack at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, US News and World Report, ABC, CBS, CBN, MSN, and a whole lot more.

A bunch of reports that don't even care about who she is--those don't come up for a search on her name.

Or, the AP story was filed before the names of the victims had been released, and the outlets that carried it thought news of a terrorist attack in the West Bank that killed an Israeli and wounded two others was sufficiently important to justify not waiting for more information before reporting it.