"Big Media And The Holocaust
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The article mentioned below from 'bbc', was first published or seen on Fri Feb 29 10:07:22 UTC 2008 and has 10 versions
Rewriting the news until the lobby shuts the f**k up.
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Monday, March 03, 2008
The Shoah Must Go On
Israel's Deputy Defence Minister threatened Gaza with a Shoah (the word generally used in Hebrew exclusively to refer to the Nazi genocide of the Jews). Or more exactly with a "bigger Shoah", implying perhaps that the inhabitants of Gaza are already suffering genocide. (Whoops.) In any case, his meaning was perfectly clear: we don't like the government you elected (in free, fair and wholly democratic elections) so we will slaughter you all. Look, we've started.
Now of course he may have said more than he meant, but when one compares the slim coverage given to his remark when compared with that given to, for example, Iran's President Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map", it's almost as though there was some kind of systematic pro-Israeli bias in the Western media. But that can't be true, because we're always being told how anti-Semitic they all are.
Now of course if there was really a systematic bias towards Israel at, say the BBC, they might have bowed to pressure to modify their reporting of the story. Their site might have changed its story to airbrush the word "holocaust" from the headline and bury it deep within the small print. But the BBC would never do that, would they?
Actually, it's even better than that: the BBC made nine revisions to the story during the day. The first corrected a typo; thereafter they progressively made more and more references to Hamas attacks on Israel, before "holocaust" was diluted to "risking disaster" and finally "invasion". Presumably the Israeli embassy just kept on ringing back until they took down the dictation correctly.
Hands up all those who believe the BBC is impartial.
Hands up all those who believe the BBC's reporting is biased against Israel.
Hands up all those who think the BBC's reporting of this story is whitewashing an inconvenient truth regarding the Israeli regime's intentions?
When the cartoon below was published a month or two back I thought it was rather over the top. Now I know better.
