Category Archives: Media

A balanced report on the Mavi Marmari incident

Kudos to the British television programme (spelled this way in honor of their objectivity) for a balanced report on the Mavi Marmara incident. Via Goldblog. The producer of Panorama? The BBC. Whoa. That’s TWO balanced BBC pieces in one week, … Continue reading

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Name the ethnicity in the Israeli serial killer story

Have you heard about the Israeli serial killer/stabber who was apprehended this week while boarding a flight to Israel? Is he a Jew? A suspect in a string of 20 stabbings that terrorized people across three states and left five … Continue reading

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The AP: Back to its normal anti-Israel bias

The AP bias returns: In this article about Lebanon attempting to “reassure” Congress that Hezbullah has nothing at all to do with its army, the AP describes the Lebanese ambush on the IDF as follows: The Congressman Berman said his … Continue reading

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Two more balanced AP pieces on Israel? Seriously?

Seriously. Though it comes at the very end of this article on the mysterious case of the arrest of an Israeli who was photographing Jewish sites in Libya, it still tells the truth about why a Jew from another country … Continue reading

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Pigs are flying: A Gaza story that doesn’t mention Israel

I’m in shock. The AP reported on Gaza power outages truthfully. There isn’t a single word blaming Israel for the Palestinian-caused shortage. Hamas and the PA are fighting over who has to pay for the fuel, and the poorer Gazans … Continue reading

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Correcting the Israel-Lebanon media narrative

The world media have grudgingly released the news that UNIFIL actually backs Israel’s versions of the ambush of IDF soldiers by Lebanese snipers. But the narrative is still that it’s a volatile border, and Israel’s extremely hostile act of pruning … Continue reading

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World media: Reflexively anti-Israel

Yesterday, only the Israeli press was carrying statements from UNIFIL saying that the IDF soldiers who were fired on by the Lebanese yesterday were definitely on the Israeli side of the border. The mainstream media couldn’t seem to find a … Continue reading

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Is Oliver Stoned? Nope, just doing a Gibson.

I know that this post is a relatively late reaction to the latest tempest in a teapot created by one of the Hollywood finest. However, after reading a few articles on the subject, I was somewhat dissatisfied by the analysis … Continue reading

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Shimon Peres and British anti-Semitism

The Telegraph reports that Britons are “furious” that Israeli president Shimon Peres said that the U.K. is anti-Israel. (By the way, the Telegraph reports that he said the U.K. is anti-Semitic. That’s not what he said.) Let us examine the … Continue reading

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AP and Reuters rocket attack spin: Newest members of Journolist?

The AP has been ignoring the many kassam rocket and mortar attacks on Israel (except, of course, for the ones in which the IDF manages to kill a few terrorists before they get off the missiles). But when a Grad … Continue reading

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The anti-Bibi media narrative

Interesting that the Washington Post, in an interview with Ehud Barak, chose to portray the lack of direct negotiations in this manner: U.S. Middle East envoy George J. Mitchell has been trying for months to broker a resumption of direct … Continue reading

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The AP: Abbas’ Propagandists

Someday, the AP might actually present a thorougly unbiased article on Israel and the Palestinians, but on that day, I suspect the Moshiach will have arrived. Let’s take the current article describing the continued Palestinian refusal for direct negotiations with … Continue reading

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Israel briefs, snarkly

Better late than never: The AP explains the Israeli side of the Gaza flotilla incident in the 11th paragraph of this story about Turkish protests at an Israeli volleyball game in Turkey. (It’s for a European tournament.) How dangerous is … Continue reading

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HMO’s beat Congress in Gallup poll

You can’t make this stuff up. Remember how much we hated HMO’s when they first came out? (I still hate them; I chose the PPO option from my health care plan). Well, Americans have a higher level of confidence in … Continue reading

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Thursday Israel snarks (because the world just needs more snark)

They were against smuggling weapons before they were for it: Say, remember a long, long time ago when the news media used to say Israel says Hamas is smuggling weapons through tunnels from Egypt? Like they really weren’t and Israel … Continue reading

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