Here is what the Times and Globe do present to the American people.
Another interesting side bar is the amount of coverage to certain things.
The lighter the emphasis, the more suspicious is the activity.
Let's start with this.
(These Neo-Nazi Jews wouldn't be dressing up like Hamas Arabs, would they?)
First of all, the Times carried a blurb about this, but it's not on the website!
Steee-rike One!
Globe's coverage (different story from the AP paper report. Why? Not comparing today).
Steee-rike Two!
"Israelis arrest alleged neo-Nazis" by Richard Boudreaux/Los Angeles Times September 10, 2007
JERUSALEM - With eight young immigrants from the former Soviet Union under arrest, Israeli authorities said yesterday they had broken up a violent neo-Nazi gang that desecrated synagogues and staged at least 15 attacks on religious Jews, Asian workers, drug addicts, and homosexuals.
The news shocked Israelis, whose state was founded as a refuge for Jews in the wake of the Nazi Holocaust. Video said to have been taken by the skinhead gang to document its beatings was shown at yesterday's Cabinet meeting, triggering urgent debate over what to do about immigrants who came as Jewish offspring but grew up to commit hate crimes and shout, "Heil Hitler!"
Voicing outrage on radio talk shows, Israelis faulted a lax standard that allowed many families with Jewish roots but weak ties to Judaism to emigrate from the Soviet Union nearly a generation ago and take Israeli citizenship.
Israeli leaders said they were appalled. "We as a society have failed to educate these youths and keep them away from dangerous and crazy ideologies," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, calling for harsh punishment of the arrested skinheads.
The Interior Ministry said it was studying the possibility of stripping the gang members of their citizenship and deporting them. All are young men in their late teens and early 20s who have "parents or grandparents who were Jewish in one way or another," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
A court decided yesterday to keep seven of the eight in custody, pending expected indictments this week. The suspects covered their faces with their shirts during the hearing.
"We didn't beat anyone," protested Arik Benyatov, 20, the gang's alleged leader, claiming his innocence.
Israeli newspapers said six of the eight alleged gangsters had confessed to police that they carried out assaults in and around Tel Aviv over a period of months before their arrests in August.
The arrests were made public Saturday, capping an investigation begun following the desecration of two synagogues sprayed with swastikas in the city of Petah Tikva more than a year ago.
Rosenfeld said the young men would be charged with "causing bodily harm to individuals and sabotaging synagogues."
Anything to keep that damn myth in people's heads, 'ey stink press?
Here is what the New York Times did give its readers (and the headline says it all -- and explains the animosity, right?
"Promising Freedom, Hamas Pressures Journalists" by STEVEN ERLANGER
[Already get the tone of the piece, don't you?
COMPLETE BIAS!]
GAZA CITY, Sept. 4 — During the first Fatah protest rally at Friday Prayer here late last month, a number of Palestinian journalists trying to cover the event were beaten by the Hamas police force. Some journalists were arrested and their cameras seized, prompting complaints from the Gaza branch of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
[Yeah, but when USrael kills 'em, the spotlight is tepid-- although it is there, unlike the faces of USrael's forgotten and nameless victims.]
The next night, at about 10 p.m., Hamas police officers entered Sakher Abu El Oun’s courtyard, preparing to arrest him. Mr. Abu El Oun, a reporter for Agence France-Presse and head of the union here, telephoned a colleague.
“I called one journalist who sent out an SMS,” he said, referring to a text message, “and within minutes, about 70 journalists and some human rights activists came to my house and prevented them from taking me away. My kids were crying. It was a very ugly picture.”
The police told him, he said, “that they had instructions to arrest me, I had refused, and I would be responsible” for any consequences.
Hamas seems confused about how to quash Fatah protests and simultaneously deal with the news media. Trying to nurture a reputation for honesty and legal behavior since they conquered Gaza in bloody fighting in June, Hamas’s leaders promise journalists freedom of action while the police intimidate them.
[But Israel's occupation is never "bloody," even when they DRESS UP as HAMAS "gunmen!!!!!"
And western journalists need not be intimidated; they already sucking off the leaders!]
One result is a kind of self-censorship, local journalists say, that goes beyond what they traditionally practiced under Fatah, which also tried to pressure, manipulate or own the Palestinian press.
[Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-!! Is that POT CALLING KETTLE, or what?!]
Mr. Abu El Oun, 42, is a good case in point. The immediate crisis for him ended when a Hamas government spokesman, Taher el-Nounou, a former journalist, arrived at his house with a message from the former Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniya, telling the police to leave.
Later, speaking for the union, Mr. Abu El Oun talked about the broader problems journalists were facing. “We are asking for the freedom to cover the protests,” he said. “They can prevent the demonstrations, but not the right of journalists to cover them. We are under self-censorship because we don’t know what is allowed, what isn’t. There is no clear policy. All the journalists are worried, scared.”
He has since been asked by his employer not to speak to journalists.
One Hamas leader, Mahmoud Zahar, called Mr. Abu El Oun “one bad guy” in an interview and accused him of “presenting himself as a Fatah leader,” in part because of his role in what was a Fatah-dominated union. But in 2001, Mr. Abu El Oun was badly beaten with an iron bar by members of the Fatah-dominated Preventive Security Force and nearly died. He underwent significant reconstructive surgery but returned to work.
[Oh, FATAHs BEAT HAMAS', huh? Yeah stick it in the middle of a biased piece of shit, Times!]
Palestinian journalists describe a confusing situation, in which Hamas, as a fundamentally religious organization new to politics and used to obedience, is putting undue pressure on the news media, especially with regard to the use of television images and photographs. Hamas is in a fierce political struggle with Fatah, and both factions are using the media at their command — the official Palestinian television and radio by Fatah, which also has its own outlets and newspapers, and Hamas’s newspapers, radio and sophisticated television channel, Al Aksa, which is modeled on Al Minar, which is run by Hezbollah.
Each accuses the other of being infidels and in the service of outsiders — Fatah says Hamas serves Iran; Hamas says Fatah serves Israel and America. In addition to children’s shows urging war against Israel and the Israeli occupation, praising martyrdom and attacking Jews, Hamas television runs a news scroll underneath devoted entirely to Hamas-flavored news. The official Palestinian Authority television, hard to see now in Gaza, is only a little more balanced.
Fatah in the West Bank has closed Hamas-affiliated media outlets and charities and prevented Hamas-supported newspapers from circulating or Hamas television from broadcasting. Equipment has been confiscated or destroyed, and six Hamas journalists have been arrested, Mr. Nounou said, and 12 more beaten. But here in Gaza, Hamas has done the same to Fatah and the Palestinian Authority-controlled media. At least eight outlets were closed, including three newspapers, and many Fatah journalists have fled.
[But it is HAMAS that has "pressured journalists," the COMPLETELY MISLEADING HEADLINE SAYS?
WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!!!!!!]
Ahmad Odeh, of Maan news agency, said: “This government came into power by a coup, and in Ramallah, there is an emergency government that rules by decree. There’s no democracy on either side. What do you expect?”
Local reporters, including those working for international news agencies, have been pressured, as they used to be pressured under Fatah, but now with a degree more menace. Yet Hamas leaders say they are committed to freedom of speech, while demanding that journalists report “objectively.”
[Yeah, Hamas ain't getting a raw deal from the Zionist-controlled "news" organizations!
FUCK THESES SHITRAGS!]
After the first Fatah rally, Mr. Nounou, the government spokesman, said in an interview that the police were ordered to leave journalists alone unless they engaged in the protest themselves. A few days later, Hamas said it would no longer work with the Palestinian journalists union that Mr. Abu El Oun leads because it was supposedly pro-Fatah, dissolved it and threatened to prosecute its leaders.
Similarly, Hamas at first said the prayer protests were fine if peaceful, but then decided to ban them, causing further clashes. As some protesters were beaten, some more journalists were beaten and arrested, too, before being released. One policeman told reporters, according to The Associated Press, “If a single shot is on TV, you know what will happen,” then drew a finger across his throat.
Mr. Zahar said, “There have been mistakes, but they are decreasing.” Mr. Nounou has been an important mediator between police and journalists and has usually secured their release. “We follow every complaint,” he said. “We respect freedom of expression and even allow Fatah here to hold press conferences and demonstrations, which Hamas cannot in the West Bank.”
[Yeah, but why would the Zionist War Dailies point that out?]
Under Fatah, “the rules were essentially clear,” said another local journalist working for a different news agency. “Don’t attack Yasir Arafat or Muhammad Dahlan or Rashid Abu Shbak,” all prominent Fatah figures, “and don’t touch the issue of corruption. That was basically all. Now, of course, it’s Abbas and a few other figures.”
[In other words, act like the AmeriKan press!!!!]
But Hamas, he said, “isn’t used to criticism and doesn’t like it.” While Fatah is essentially a broad, secular movement and disorganized, “Hamas is less accepting of advice or criticism, and it’s less experienced and open to the world.”
Since June, he said, Gaza is under a kind of military rule, and everyone is wary.
“People aren’t sure what the boundaries are, and Hamas tries to reassure them, but people feel a little afraid,” he said. “Self-censorship is more devastating than censorship laws. And the self-censorship, especially for journalists, is more depressing and complicated than before.”
