Bungled Headline of the Day
November 29, 2011 15:08 by Pesach BensonUPDATE Nov. 30: Well isn’t this splendid? More prime examples of Big Media’s penchant for moral equivalence at The Scotsman and Montreal Gazette:
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Lebanese terrorists fire rockets at Israel. And what’s The Guardian‘s headline?
On a purely factual level, the headline’s off because Israel retaliated with some very limited artillery fire — and certainly not with rockets.
But on a deeper level, why does The Guardian have such a burning need to paint the aggressor and the defender as morally equivalent? Does it make no difference to the paper who started it — much less why?
Indeed, this video on the same web page focuses exclusively on the rocket strike. In the big picture, the Israeli response was incidental.
ABC
3:53 pm
Nov 29, 2011
Guardian makes it sound like some romantic event, MSNBC, Los Angeles Times and Al-Jazeera all had headlines putting Israel on the negative side.
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Barry Ford
8:56 pm
Nov 29, 2011
Not only the headline, but the sub-headline states “The Israeli military say they responded after a volley of rockets were fired across the border from Lebanon, raising fresh tensions in the volatile region”, insinuating that the Israeli response is what is raising the fresh tensions. Will mainstream media ever tell the truth in an unbiased manner? I think not.
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Ken
9:43 pm
Nov 29, 2011
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.”
? Stuart Chase
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Benjamin
4:56 pm
Nov 30, 2011
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Johnny Whitewater
10:02 pm
Nov 29, 2011
“Bungled Headline” suggests they made an inadvertent mistake. You aren’t bungling something when you deliberately do it.
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Ari
5:19 pm
Nov 30, 2011
You see they know Israel will respond to the rocket fire so they just wait for Israel’s response before writing the headline this way the reporting is “accurate”.
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Alison
5:21 pm
Nov 30, 2011
The New York Times had the same headline; “Restraint Urged After Salvos Over Lebanon-Israel Line”. This after three very negative op-eds within one week. I believe the NYT is actually anti-semitic but know it’s not acceptable to actually say that.
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Roger G. Bensman
5:23 pm
Nov 30, 2011
You folks at HonestReporting seem to not want to understand something about THE MEDIA. I will make my usual attempt once again. See if you can GET it this time. The scope of the media is limited to where it counts: The U.S.A. What the rest of the world reports and how it gets reported is irrelevant.
There are in this country TWO mainstream medias, aka as MSMs. Let us describe them and who are the players in each. From here on in, recognize this and report on your site accordingly. Let us begin:
1. Liberal MSM This includes newspapers such as the NYT, LAT, Wash.Post, Houston Chron., Chicago Trib, and every newspaper of liberal bent in between. Included are the magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, New Republic, etc. There are the TV channels, such as NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN(and a few others). There are some few radio talker shows. Finally, there are the Internet bloggs, such as Media Matters, Daily Kos, Huffington Post and so forth. So constitutes the Incredible Shrinking LiberalMSM, playing to ever declining readers, listeners, viewers, and tanking subscription and advertizing revenues. About 15-20% of the population caring to be informed. They report, distort, suppress, slant, and lie.
2. Conservative MSM This includes newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, Wash. Times, NYPost, and others. Included are magazines such as National Review, Weekly Standard, Commentary, etc. There are radio talk shows, such as Libaugh, Beck, Ingraham, Hannity, Hewett, and the list is really long and very influential. Then there are the Internet bloggers, such as The Blaze, Drudge Reports, Breitbart Big Everythings, PJMedia, and more. Then there is television—Fox Business, Fox News, cNBC, especially Rick Santori and Larry Kudlow and so on. This Conservative MSM reports fully, accurately, suppresses NOTHING, breaks EVERYTHING, slants to the right, and misses very little, scooping the other MSM over and over and over again. This Conservative MSM is expanding in viewers, readers, and listeners, not to mention subscription and advertizing revenues. It plays to some 60% of the population caring to be informed about domestic and world events.
So care not about what the smaller liberal MSM does. Care about the conservative MSM and what it does. Israel gets covered frequently, fairly, and accurately. It does get more than adequate coverage. Got a story, get it to Conservative MSM. And, STOP whining about what the other media does or doesn’t do.
Final point: To refer only to the smaller MSM as if it is the more important one is to give it a status and platform that is inflated, invalid, and wrong. In all our reportage to Conservative MSM, we get, as individuals, hearing. Would not think of, say, writing a letter to the editor of the local Houston rag. What for? Hah! Hah! Some joke that would be. More people read these readers’ posts and articles of support for Israel in Conservative MSM and that is where it matters. Independents and liberals catch Conservative MSM daily because there are many among them who know they are getting good, hard, accurate, and full news.
Have a care.
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FresnoJoe
6:25 pm
Nov 30, 2011
Amen Dear Roger, Amen~!
However Someone Needs To Step Up
And Boink These Spin Doctors Of Anti-Semantic Hatred
On Their Pompous Little Heads From Time To Time
And The More Truth Tellers Out There
The Better
(IMO)
Keep Up The Good Fight Roger
It Is A Pleasure To Hear From You
Post Early, Post Often
Best Regards. Joe
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Steve
6:57 pm
Nov 30, 2011
Roger,
If you actually believe that that the conservative media is the one telling the TRUTH then you are a deluded as the Liberal Media followers. Fox and Rush as the leaders of the pack of jackals are the masters of spin and they have you suckered hook, line, and sinker. THey tell you what yopu WANT to hear and you buy into it. PT Barnum was right…
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jacob
8:46 pm
Nov 30, 2011
So far, I’m still to see any conservative media means having to apologize for wrong or biased
information but I can’t say the same for the liberal one which, more than once, have had to be dragged kicking and panting to apologize for their shameless bias.
As to the NYT, I wouldn’t offend my derriere using it for “ersatz” toilet paper and so the rest
of its ilk and what burns me up is the fact that the New York Jews, to whom it is more truth
than the Old Testament, still won’t cancel their subscriptions and their advertisements but
then again, what is to expect from the 80% of them voting for OBAMA ???
Unfortunately, Isrswel’s PR stinks to high level and so does that of our Jewish organizations
Has it occurred to any of them publish at newspapers of significant readers, pictures of the
GAZA;s shopping centers, te automobiles these poor 60 yearvplus “REFUGEES” enjoy
and drive ????
Could it be due to the fact that, he who is a good for nothing, is good for Israeli public relations man ???
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Lopuis
8:21 pm
Nov 30, 2011
Unfortunately you are underrating the liberal media. The N Y Times is still the ‘newspaper of record’ in this country and the LA Times and Washington Post still have a lot of influence. That seems to be slowly changing I believe, but the so called intelligentsia still turn to the liberal press.
It’s that part of the American public that engineered a president unsympathetic to Israel and virtually clueless as to how to negotiate the rest of the world. While there’s a strong possibility that his overall disastrous performance will cost him the next election, it’s not nearly certain. And even then, the NY Times and the others will still exert considerable influence.
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elsa peña alatriste
10:10 pm
Nov 30, 2011
Me parece que los árabes han comprado las televisoras y la única que no estaba tanto en contra de los israelíes era Fox pero me he enterado por medios fidedignos que los árabes ya tienen el 27% de las acciones de Fox, eso es concluyente, todos los medios están siendo comprados.
Y con los periódicos es lo mismo. Por eso dejé de comprar el períodico Reforma. Solo sabían criticar a los Israelíes en todas sus noticias del NYT.
Me parece lamentable que la gente es de lo mas ignorante de la verdadera realidad, les han pintado una realidad falsa, los palestinos tienen su palywood donde hacen sus videos tendenciosos.
Algún día pagarán por sus infamias contra los judíos los que los acosan de alguna manera.
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Roger G. Bensman
6:12 am
Dec 01, 2011
Let me clarify. Must have missed something. The NYT is still the newspaper of record in this country? Keep believing that if you must. Their readership is tanking all the way down to the leftist elite. Read it sometime, if you have the stomach for it. Then try the Wall Street Journal(news and editorial sections). See any difference? Well, do you? Eh?
The point I am trying to make is that you no longer have to refer to this much smaller MSM as THE MSM. It once was; it is no more. Since so many disagree with this new phenomenon, I guess you want to keep that Liberal MSM as some kind of bogyman. I do not.
You will find that any one of the major news and opinion commentators at Fox News or Fox Business commands 2-4 million viewers a nite. NBC, CBS, and that ilk do not. Check it out. And you don’t have to be offended by them anymore. Try Fox(if you can bear the one or sometimes two liberals some of them have on their shows for BALANCE) and get thoughtful, meaningful, and accurate news and frank opinion that won’t insult your intelligence all the time.
There is a CHOICE out there, people. Take it. Twenty years ago there wasn’t. I get the WSJ and the Nat. Review. These are great media. Or do you want to bellyache about crap that NYT says about Israel? Why whine when you can ignore it and join in with good company on the Conservative side? It plays to bigger audiences.
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Brent Pudsey
3:05 pm
Dec 01, 2011
Once again the Guardian has used its own interpretation in its viewpoint piece. This is terrible journaism and extremly bias as it negates important facts about the situation. Namely: Israel responded to the rocket attack from Lebanon with artillery and secondly this was not a friendly skirmish or accident but a blatant act of aggression on the part of Lebanon.
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Roger G. Bensman
7:59 pm
Dec 01, 2011
May I offer still another take on the matter of referring to that bogeyman, the MSM—-which by old outdated thinking—-is THE MEDIA, THE MSM. It isn’t . It has degenerated into propaganda rags and views for the Incredible Shrinking Left. Yes, we are speaking of the Liberal medial.
I am speaking of the new sheriff in town, the nation, actually. By Conservative standards, the MSM is Conservative Media. I think my commentaries about leaving the Leftist Media alone may have ruffled some feathers on this site—-which I respect and even contribute money to, time to time. But HonestReporting has a mission, an agenda: that is to keep fighting the good fight against the Leftist media worldwide. I applaud, support, and contribute to that.
That, as you can plainly see by review is spitting into a hurricane, particularly abroad. That is a battle that, while it must be fought, can never be won. JewHatred is a mass contageous behavioral disturbance of the non-Jew. It spews out in never ending vomit. For each reporter or news organization “busted,” more anti-Jewish crap pours forth—like fire ants, cockroaches, workers of iniquity(in Biblical terms).
So when I suggested to ignore the bustings, that goes against what HonestReporting stands for. The fight goes on. But know what we are all up against. JewHate never dies. Take comfort in that there is in this country the little MSM–liberal and the big MSM–conservative. Enjoy that.
Oh, and to the responder who suggested that the Conservatives lie as well, I take no offense. Just know there are 1. Conservative interpretations and 2. Liberal lies. When you read and view, you take your choice on that. I choose not to be blindsided.
Enjoy your day, all
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GoonerEll
11:46 am
Dec 06, 2011
Dear Roger
I respect your right to an opinion, but I find it astonishing that you state that the only media that counts is in the US. Of course, the US is the most powerful nation, and it is crucial that her government and people keep up their support of Israel, but they cannot and do not act alone nor can they ignore the rest of the world. Have a look at the record of voting in the UN on ME resolutions. There are consistently 7 members who vote against the ridiculous anti-Israel resolutions that appear on an almost daily basis. Israel, the US and a group of Pacific island states. Wouldn’t it be great if some other influential countries, maybe in Europe or Asia, joined the team?
I don’t know whether the media in each country reflects or leads the zeitgeist, but public opinion is certainly closely related to what appears in print and on the screen. You may think that the British media, for example, is “irrelevant” but rags such as the Guardian and Independent are influential, even if their readership is declining, and they help to set the tone of discussion on ME issues, particularly among the political classes, who actually can make a difference to government policy and especially on the BBC which still has a wide global reach.
Finally, you may not think that any media outside the US is relevant, but media coverage directly affects the views of the population in the relevant country, and therefore the levels and degree of antisemitic incidents suffered by the Jews living there. You may not care about that, but (not living in the US) I sure as hell do.
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Len Kurtz
2:35 am
Jun 07, 2012
Duh?
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