Do you agree network news portrays Israelis as humans and Arabs as statistics ?

Question

I was amazed. Channel 4 had two minutes showing bridges and roads bombed in Lebanon and mentioned 200 civilians were killed as Israeli planes sought out Hezboulah (like it was okay) Then they showed 5 minutes of Israeli women and children scared out of their minds racing for air raid shelters to escape the cold killing machine of the Arab terrorists (Arabs are always terrorists, and "gunmen" ) There were faces, emotions, real people here in this second report.

This is so typical of the way our press and networks report the conflict.

When did the U.S. press become spokespeople for only one side of the conflict ?

Answer 1

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Somewhat.

But remember, Arabs had never been "network friendly" so reporters would do well to avoid their areas altogether. Go to any Arab nation and you'd risk being a victim of human rights abuse. They are not being one-sided reporters, they try to do what they can to cover the news without the risk of losing their lives, without them getting violated.

For a short list, Hezbollah kidnapped around 30 Westerners between 1982 and 1992, including the American journalist Terry Anderson, British journalist John McCarthy, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy Terry Waite and Irish citizen Brian Keenan; Kidnapped and tortured to death U.S. Marine Colonel William R. Higgins and the CIA Station Chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley; 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome. There were countless other Hezbollah terrorist attacks in other countries - peacetime or wartime. I would pray for their lives that reporters stay away from covering extremist arab territories.

In contrast, any reporter from any nation can freely roam the US without any fear of losing their lives from human rights abuse. In fact, their lives are even protected by the US constitution.

On another note, the Hezbollah are largely recognized as terrorists, not just by the US. The EU and the US would do well to support the Israelis and pressure the Lebanese to disarm the Hezbollah. And if one-sided network coverage would help to that end, I would support it! The existence of Hezbollah's military arm is a continuing violation of the peace treaty that ended the Lebanese war!
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Answer 2

I think you don't understand the whole picture. The reason they report on the Arabs as statistics, is their news crews have a high mortality rate trying to report news in those countries when fighting is going on. News people don't want to die you see. They just want to report inflamatory stuff that sells their paper or networks to dummies who think they are getting the whole picture.

When did they become spokespeople? When one democratic country (Israel) allows reporting, and for the reporter to live, and the others don't. What would YOU do in trying to report these stories. And can we buy you a ticket there?

Answer 3

I have noticed over the years that Israelis have always gotten better coverage than Arabs...and that Arabs are typically painted in a negative light. It's only in recent years that many networks have attempted to do better in covering the Arab point of view....some have done better than others.

Answer 4

This is a part of a series of operations conducted by US and its close allies since the end of WWII aiming at brainwashing viewers and making them endorse the policies adopted. The "enemy" is faceless, a dark force working secretly for the destruction of the Western values-democracy, freedom etc- while "us," depicted in close-ups, are portrayed as the innocent victims of savage terrorism. The same technique was used by Hitler to gain power and expand his dominion. Remember the Reichtag and the Polish border incidents?

Answer 5

its been a while, they want to please the public so they don't tell you the full story or nothing at all. like who cares what Britney Spears does, genocide is occuring daily and thousands are dying. plus on top of that Muslims are actually very peaceful people its just that the U.S> are the biggest stereotypes in the world.

Answer 6

When Hamas, after getting the land the Palestinians had wanted back from Israel, chose to attack Israel instead of setting up a functional nation.

Answer 7

Give me a break you idiot. They are terriorists.
They have been killing Isreal for years and no one has done a thing to stop them. Finally Isreal is retaileating.
If they give them back what they have been dishing out them oh not how terrible. If you can't take it don't dish it out;

Answer 8

They have told only one side of the stories for yours. And most people believe these "reporters".

Answer 9

Ok.. What are the people that lives in Israel? JEWS right..

I'm from NYC majority of the rich people here in NYC, I mean billionaires are jewish people..

They own big businesses.. like NEWS channels..

What would you think they should air in the news? anti jews?

I don't think so!! That is why they bomb WTC in the 1st place, to kill so many jews..

Think about it..

Answer 10

half of what you hear on the news is BS, so no i don't agree with that.