Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:34:30 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: yvan <niooi@cybercable.fr> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Course of law (was: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping vi ctims of terror))) Message-ID: <3BDD9326.63937440@mindspring.com> References: <EB513E68D3F5D41191CA000255588101B43531@mailserv.xpert.com> <002201c16064$796e4370$aa28c6d4@humano9zbqzdag>
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yvan wrote: > When you have one Israeli killed you have a full international coverage and > when you have 10 Palestinian killed no media talk about and here is why: > http://www.rsf.org/uk/html/mo/cplp01/lp01/251001.html Most reports of dead Palestinians or dead Israelis as seen in the U.S. are reports via telephone, accompanied with a still photograph of the reporter making the report. When that's lacking, they show some file footage of soldiers milling around in a devastated street scene (Palestinian attack on Israelis), or some file footage of a night shot of missle and/or tracer fire (Israeli attack/reprisals on Palestinians; which depends on the political leanings of the reporter). When all else fails, they show a still computer graphic of a flag with a couple of missles in front of it, while the talking head (news anchor) reads a script written by someone less photogenic from an email from the field. Personally, I don't understand why the U.S. public should care more about dead Palestinians (or dead Israelis, for that matter) than about people who die in other countries, under other circumstances and regimes. I personally find Cambodia to be much more interesting than the West Bank of Jerusalem, and occasionally wonder whether the people in Ethiopia are still starving to death and eating all vegetation (resulting in additional desertification of the area, making things worse) because their government is selling the relief supplies to the neighboring countries in order to buy military equipment to oppress their people further. The only justification I can see for either Palestinian or Israeli deaths appearing in U.S. news is an attempt at them controlling U.S. public opinion, or at forcing U.S. involvement through control of a grass roots push for the U.S. government to "do something to save them!". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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