Sunday, August 06, 2006

CNN: Biased Reporting you can count on!

In light of Reuter's reacent decision to pull their blatently Photoshopped picture of Lebanon burning (begging the question: Why did you morons put it in the news to begin with?) CNN has been doing a little "spinning" of their own. CNN isn't (yet) touching up their photos, but they are certainly adding their own anti-Israel twist to their headlines.

If you were to read this without knowing the truth, your first assumption would be that Hezbollah legitimately killed 12 soldiers, or “combatants”, but that’s not the case. Hezbollah launched these bombs into heavily populated civilian areas, and intentionally killed 12 more civilians.

Notice CNN’s front page; they are quick to say that Israel killed 8 civilians, without ever mentioning that the 12 killed by Hezbollah were in fact, Israeli civilians. Doesn’t that break some sort of ethical rule, taking sides with the terrorists?

...emphasis mine.

UPDATE: I stand corrected - evidently the 12 killed in Israel were soldiers. CNN just changed the headline. The new headline says that there were 100 injured, and 3 dead - and it still doesn't call the 100 or the 3 civilians.

UPDATE: It's good to see that somebody over there is paying attention. CNN's headline now reads:
Civilians pay cost of war

Hezbollah rockets kill 12 soldiers, 3 civilians
Israel strikes kill 8 civilians; hits rocket launch sites
Captured militant admits kidnap role, Israel says
Lebanon unhappy with draft U.N. resolution

Still no mention of the hundreds od Israeli civilians injured, but it's a start. Maybe, CNN could hire that guy from Reuters to touch some of this stuff up...


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