This week on FAIR TV: ABC‘s embarrassing mistake in its Gaza coverage, This Week touts a right-wing conspiracy film and CBS presents viewers with the story of the risk-taking billionaire CEO who is cutting thousands of jobs.
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When you assign motives to media mistakes you commit the same sin that you are condemning. Just report the truth and leave the judging to your audience.
@ jskogstoe, the presenter did just what you advise: point out the truth. This truth, however, is part of a reporting pattern, which she must also point out as context.
Couldn’t the networks save some money simply by putting their journalists on the government payroll? Since for the most part, they just play human microphone stand, why should the networks pay them? Thank goodness for the Guardian. Don’t you hope one our super rich people decide to start an actual journalism organization in the United States?
QUESTION:
The mainstream media keep saying rocket attacks by Hamas. Does this mean attacks ordered by Hamas leadership ? Attacks for which Hamas leadership claimed responsibility ? Or could it mean attacks by people considered to be members of Hamas ? Or attacks by any Palestinian ?
In the recent case of the Israeli citizen killed by fire from Syria, to which the Israelis responded by bombing Syrian military posts, the Israeli government stated that it considers any attack from Syria the responsibility of the Syrian government, even if it was a rebel group.
Is this same doctrine being applied to Gaza ?