Media bias against Israel?

Question

Why is it the media will show footage from Lebanon of children crying and people mourning the death of someone, but when they show footage of Israel it's always of troops or a tank or missle launcher?

Answer 1

To sell newspapers. But they forgot to take pictures in Israel, showing where Hezbollah guerrilla rockets hit Israeli children.

Answer 2

Almost all western media is run and populated by liberals. They hate America and are anti-Semitic. Just look at the New York Times. They therefore show any opposition to America or Israel in a favorable light. They are willing co-conspirators with the terrorists who are past masters of spoon-feeding them just the right info for propaganda purposes.

One tactic the Fakestinians have used repeatedly is to stage crying, wailing women and children in an olive orchard where the trees have been cut to their main trunk and a few branches and all stripped bare. The headline and story will tell how the "mean Jews" have destroyed the Fakestinians olive trees and the media will run this story in America and Western Europe. I don't know if the media are ignorant or malicious in this (I'm betting on the latter,) but this is NORMAL pruning that is done to olive trees. It affects how the future crops will come out. There is no Jewish conspiracy to deprive anyone of their olives. If that were so the trees would be cut to the ground and the stumps poisoned.

Answer 3

I have seen, on CNN, NBC and others images of Israeli and Lebanese people who have lost family members, houses, etc. There is just more damage on the Lebanese side, so you see more there. The reason you don't see Hezbollah artilery up close is because Hezbollah won't let any media close, for fear Israel would gain intelligence about their locations.

Answer 4

Because we here in America still don't get it so I'll say it again...they want to Kill the Jews and the Americans, not one of us, not some of us, ALL OF US! That includes the same people who think Isreal was wrong for invading Lebanon and trying to wipe out hezballah which IS a terrorist organazation and wish nothing but death and destruction upon Isreal and America.

Answer 5

The media reports what they see. It is true that children and mourners are crying in Lebanon; It is eqally true that troops and armoury are moving in Israel. The media did not manufacture the stories

Answer 6

Because that's the reality of the situation. There is just more damage on the Lebanese side, so you see more there. This war that is unfair to the Lebanese people. It'l like a 15 year old (Israel) beating up a 7 year old (Lebanon).


Recent studies of U.S. media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reveal that the media reported Israeli children’s deaths at rates 7 to 40 times greater than Palestinian children’s deaths. Some typical examples:

In 2004, when 8 Israeli children were killed and 179 Palestinian children were killed, NBC reported on 100% of Israeli children’s deaths and on 10% of Palestinian children’s deaths, ABC on 100% and 11%.
The New York Times reported on 50% of Israeli children’s deaths and 7% of Palestinian children’s deaths.
In the first six months of the current uprising – during which time four Israeli children were killed and 93 Palestinian children were killed – the San Francisco Chronicle reported prominently on 150% of the Israeli children’s deaths (through repetitions) and on 5% of the Palestinian children’s deaths.
A 2004 study of Portland’s Oregonian newspaper revealed headline coverage on 88% of Israeli children’s deaths and on 2% of Palestinian ones.
At least 82 Palestinian children were killed before the first Israeli child. Why is there such an immense differential in reporting on deaths related to the ethnicity of the victim? Why are so few Palestinian children’s deaths being reported to the American public?
The Associated Press is the major source of international news for U.S. news media. Virtually all AP news reports about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict go through its bureau in Israel.

On May 11, 2004, an AP news story reported: “The Geneva-based Defense for Children International and Save the Children, based in Sweden, said that as of May 2004, 373 Palestinians under 18 were being held in Israeli detention centers and prisons. At least three of the detainees are under 14...The groups charged that the treatment of Palestinian child prisoners by Israeli authorities amounts to a pattern of violence that has gone unchecked for years...”

This is important information for American taxpayers, since the US gives Israel over $10 million per day, and people throughout the world are aware that the US is Israel’s major supporter, thus blaming Americans for Israel’s actions. Oddly, however, AP sent this story out only on its Worldstream newswire, and not to American newspapers. Thus, people everywhere else in the world learned about these reports on Israeli human rights violations, but Americans did not.



In 2004, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer passed away. Moorer, a World War II hero and one of the country’s highest ranking officers, had long been an outspoken critic of Israel – particularly of Israel’s brutal attack on a U.S. Navy ship, which had killed 34 American servicemen and injured 172. Just months before his death, Moorer appeared on Capitol Hill heading an independent inquiry, which found that Israel had “committed acts of murder against U.S. servicemen and an act of war against the United States” – words he repeated in an op-ed in the military’s Stars and Stripes newspaper on Jan. 16, 2004.

On Moorer’s death three weeks later, AP quickly sent out a 366-word report. The story included a sentence stating that Moorer had “...accused Israel of deliberately attacking the USS Liberty, an American spy ship.”

Within a few hours, AP sent out an expanded, 529-word obituary. The above sentence had been removed, and with it any hint of Moorer’s views on Israel: “The American people would be goddam mad if they knew what was going on.”
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/clues.html


The only bias the Media has is against Arabs and Muslims (Islam).
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/bias.html
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/pressure.html

Answer 7

The obvious answer is that most of the world is generally biased against Israel. A good website to check out is http://camera.org/ - the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America

Answer 8

For your knowledge the world media are in the hands of a gang of Jews. They could have shown images of Jews in agony, but they chose to depict Jews as they really are, arrogant, Nazi-like in their defiance, not giving a rat's fart about human lives, intent on carrying on their bloody schemes, with total disregard for the feelings of the populace of the world

Answer 9

i donnt know about the usa but in england the press and news media are bias in favour of muslims.dont ask me why.i was told in work this morning the muslim council of great brittain has asked tony blair for a muslim bank holiday.the worring thing is with him in charge they will probably get it.heres another example of how white working class are discriminated against in this country.i went to take my children to the local swimming pool the other night but was told i couldnt come in as it was a muslim women and children hour.and thats in a christian country.its ammazing how we bend over backwards for these people.

Answer 10

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