Comments on: The objective media—not

By: Segall

Segall — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:57 +0000

Israel needs to pick better PR people. That british woman was basically insinuating that we knew about civilians in the school and fired anyway. The Major gave a terrible answer. All they knew was that there were mortars coming down from that location. What does a soldier do when he’s shot at? He shoots back. The real question is, ‘What were those so called innocent civilians doing next to a bunch of masked guys launching mortars?’ They know there are F16s and drones, electric devices that can pinpoint mortars, and that all of these things are either following smoke trails or analyzing trajectories to find the launchers. There can only be two answers. A: Hamas is holding them hostage. or B: These people invited Hamas to use their property so that they can kill some infidels and/or become martyrs and PR boosts. That woman, and a good percentage of the world would be as far away as they could get from a rocket launching team in the middle of a war. You could just hear the anti jewish hatred seething behind that reporter’s words.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:58:28 +0000

Carlos, and others, should go read the Fourth Geneva Conventions. If somebody hides his fighters and munitions and arms among civilians, and the other side with whom he is at war kills civilians in the course of attacking those legitimate military targets hidden among protected people and buildings, the casualties to protected people and losses of protected property are the responsibility of the side that put them there. In this case Hamas puts its men and munitions among protected civilians and the latter get hurt. That is Hamas’ resposibility by international law, not Israel’s.

By: carlos

carlos — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:26:10 +0000

Ok, I get it, your opinion about the media not being objective is biased but it’s fine because you are a blogger. The rest of my message was conveniently ignored for the same reason. I won’t waste more of your time. Chau.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:36:00 +0000

Carlos, our media insists it is objective, and that it fairly portrays both sides of the story.

That is why I complain when they do not.

I am not a media outlet. I am a blogger, writing my opinions. Not news. Opinions. The media are supposed to be reporting news. Not opinions.

Do you get it yet?

By the way, I don’t live in Israel.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:16:17 +0000

Meryl, on the other hand, a heart surgeon never operates on a patient to whom he is emotionally linked.
if you never pretended to be objective, as you said, which I think is just fine, why do you complaint when other sources are not (according to your not objective opinion) objective. And by the way, many non palestinian people are acusing the press of not using words like: invasion, genocide or phrases like: Geneva Convention in their reports.
You guys got fed up and attacked, bombed and invaded, I think that was the only way to stop the rockets but don’t try to make it look like everybody is in a conspiracy against Israel. You guys are killing civilians, a lot and that has to be reported and it reflects in a negative way on you because maybe what you are doing is wrong. By blindly justifying 100% of your actions you become a fanatic on the eyes of the outsiders (most of the world) like me (latino from Argentina) and that’s not smart and takes a lot of credibility away from your point of view but that’s your opinion and I accept it and try to be in your shoes as much as possible and it must be awful to be showered by rockets as you must be (I’m assuming you live near the problem areas), if I lived there maybe I would hate the other side, too. Thanks

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:46:14 +0000

Carlos, I don’t need to be objective to be able to tell objectivity. Just as a heart surgeon doesn’t need to have a heart attack to be a good surgeon.

I have never, ever, pretended to be objective on this blog. It’s a blog. By definition, it’s opinionated.

By: bb

bb — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:05:05 +0000

In the past eight years, more than 5000 (FIVE THOUSAND) Kassam rockets have fallen on the town of Sderot. The people of Sderot have exactly 15 seconds to run for a bomb shelter before the missile lands. HOW ABOUT THAT FOR CNN HEADLINES?!

By: Shira

Shira — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:11:12 +0000

Thank goodness, finally somebody being honest! CNN is always biased against Israel. Not sure why, really; it’s not like it’s some radical left wing publication. It just seems not to like Israel very much. :-(

By: Mnlara

Mnlara — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:08:16 +0000

Israel has every right to defend and protect it’s citizen. From every accounts, it shows that hamas will do everything (even sacrificing their people) to spread their hate against Israel. Hamas is so cold blooded that they will use innocent civilians and children as human shield. If they wanted peace, they could have done it in a peaceful – non-violent way. But alas, Hamas has so much hate against Israel. Therefore HAMAS must now be eliminated as a group wanting peace. Give them the hell they wanted so much.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:36:46 +0000

How do you manage to keep your pro-Israel feelings aside while determining what’s objective and what’s not? or you are pro-Hamas but you are so good at being objective that make it look the opposite way. Maybe you are a Palestinian Colbert and all this is comedy.