August 26, 2006
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Israelis bombing ambulances? Or not?
The MSM (mainstream media) apparently bought yet another fauxtographic story from the Hezbollah media mongers without asking critical questions, and within days the world was accusing Israel of 'war crimes.' And in other news, the sun rose in the east today.
It remains to be seen how this will all turn out. But it is interesting to peruse this expose of the situation ( http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/ ), if for no other reason that one is interested in truth.
Comments (6)
I haven't actually watched a network news broadcast in months.
Since that site appears biased in other ways, and I couldn't find a non-biased source reporting similar things, I'm going to ignore it. If you have another source from something -less- biased (I'd take pretty much anything that's not a personal site or Fox), I'd be happy to examine that.
Interesting proposition, though. Israel's got nothing if not the moral high ground. Um, except a lot of weapons and the support of the world's greatest superpower.
~Sol
Interesting...it seems like the MSM is always pulling something like that. Anything to make things seem much, much worse than they really are. I just hope that Americans (and the rest of the world) don't really believe everything they hear or read.
Hi Sol,
You certainly have the right to ignore any news site you please... and you're certainly right that the article was biased. All news sources are biased, even inluding this blog.
Of course, it's important to look at 'what actually happened' - to 'see through the bias', as much as possible.
But I am not sure what you mean by "a non-biased source reporting similar things". Do you mean a newspaper that published the pictures, claiming that the pictures showed an Israeli missile/bomb entry? There are many such newspapers, including the Boston Globe, MSNBC, New York Times, etc. Or do you mean a newspaper which published an apology or retraction, saying something like "We originally thought that the story about Israel bombing the two ambulances was credible, but now we have come to the conclusion that the photos were staged, the injuries were faked, and there was no bombing after all"? Given the evident anti-Israeli bias of many of the major news networks, I would not personally expect this sort of retraction published. The best I could expect of these mainstream sources is that they would quietly delete the article from their archives, or post a tiny little "errata" notice somewhere on their website.
A retraction or an errata would be nifty. I agree, a public retraction is unlikely, not necessarily because of an anti-Israel bias, but because news sources hate admitting that they're wrong. I'm just wondering if there are any other sources with the same report. It looks like a fairly detailed one, but I have trouble trusting any story if I hear it from only one source.
~Sol
P.S. For the record, I'm having trouble supporting -anyone- in this particular war. Israel is mimicking the U.S. in all the ways I like least, and Hezbollah is mimicking the rest of the Mideast in all the ways I like least.
Sol, I like your skepticism, I just think you should be a little more skeptical of mainstream news sources who breathlessly publish pictures that Hezbollah gives them and uncritically tell the world - 'Look at these new Israeli atrocities!'
I know what you mean about all sides being hard to support... war is ugly, period.
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