Gadaffi, MSM, Can’t Find Civilian Casualties
March 24, 2011 9:52 by Pesach BensonCol. Gadaffi’s says Western airstrikes on Libya are killing lots of civilians. Robert Gates calls Gadaffi a liar.
As David Wood explains, it can be difficult for coalition pilots to discern between Gadaffi loyalists, rebels and civilians, so could the dictator be right?
Well, a troupe of foreign reporters and their government minders went looking for civilian casualties in Tripoli. How hard should that be?
They couldn’t find any.
Indonesian journalist Adini Effendi summed up the issue in less than 140 characters:
Lisa Holland of Sky News filed this dispatch:
Somewhat embarrassed they direct our questions up the chain of command. They have no answers.
It has been a fruitless day. These are our only opportunities to try to examine the claims of the regime.
We ask for evidence to back up their mantra that the military intervention is causing mass civilian casualties.
Today they have shown us nothing. Now back at the hotel we are once again under virtual house arrest.
Unable to move around freely having been threatened with arrest or detention.
So why are the Palestinians able to get away with bogus bloated casualty figures (think Gaza war) while Gadaffi can’t? Why wasn’t the MSM equally skeptical of discredited Palestinian claims?
Easy. The Libyans don’t have the luxury of a compliant Western press.
David
10:36 am
Mar 24, 2011
Because there were civiliian casualities during Cast Lead, even the IDF admits there were. Likewise, there was photographic and other evidence during the war* — the only dispute is how many or who is a civilian in some case. In any case, the media did report Qadaffi’s claims. You are, in the usual practice of politically motivated media critics, taking a single story (not even that — a Tweet and blog posting) and drawing far-reaching conclusions about media coverage. Your claim of bias in this case is baseless.
*The IDF, as you may recall, banned reporters from entering Gaza during most of the operation.
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