Dion wrote:
> "Grandmaster Sensei Shaolin" <grandmastersenseishaolin.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in
> message news:1155046091.524158.49540@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Grey Mouser West wrote:
> > > grandmastersenseishaolin.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com wrote:
> > > > ChrisRobin wrote:
> > > > > On Aug 7 2006 6:57 PM, Grandmaster Sensei Shaolin wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > This poor woman has managed to lose *TWO* homes since the attacks
> > > > > > started...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >From July 22, 2006:
> > > > > >
> http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&u=3D/060722/ids_photos_india_wl/ra4=
> > > > > > 09986087.jpg
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >From August 5, 2006:
> > > > > >
> http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&u=3D/060805/481/6e91ad31bb4847c0906=
> > > > > > a1cfb98461570
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Either she is very rich (which isn't the case) or she is a prop
> and a
> > > > > > shill for the liberal media looking for a photo-op to
> overexaggerate
> > > > > > what is happening in Lebanon.
> > > > >
> > > > > I imagine it's not really necessary to "overexaggerate" a bombing
> campaign
> > > > > that's displaced more than a million civilians.
> > > >
> > > > >From the liberal media's point of view it is necessary to over
> > > > exaggerate what is happening because they want to bash President
> Bush's
> > > > support over Israel. They have to go as far as to placing the same
> > > > weeping woman in two different locations and claim that she is losing
> > > > real estate.
> > > >
> > > > How do you know a million civilians have been displaced? That's a
> > > > bunch of crap and propaganda that you have fallen for. Yesterday, the
> > > > liberal media was reporting that 40 people were killing in Israeli air
> > > > raids on Houla. The Lebanese Prime Minister reported that the
> *actual*
> > > > death toll was 1.
> > > >
> > > > > Liberal media, LOL. Good one. You mean the "liberal media" that's
> entirely owned
> > > > > by GE, TimeWarner, Viacom, CBS, Disney, and Rupert Murdoch?
> > > >
> > > > Watch CNN and MSNBC. They are clearly slanting their reports in favor
> > > > of the terrorists. I'd expect that from the Clinton News Network.
> > >
> > > Would you knock it off already. Stay away from political topics. It
> > > is embarassing.
> >
> > You find truth embarrassing?
> >
> > I feel sad for you. 
(
> >
>
> Please post the CNN comments that slant in favor of terrorists. Post a link
> and quote the part you find fits your view of CNN. It will be easy for you
> to find part of a news story that could be taken as favoring terrorists. The
> hard part would be to find a news story that as a whole favors the
> terrorists.
> --
> Dion
Ask and you shall receive...
Listen to this video clip. This was a "report" done by CNN
correspondent Nic Robertson:
http://newsbusters.org/media/2006-07-18-CNNAC360.mp3
CNN's Robertson **Now** Admits: Hezbollah 'Had Control' of His
Anti-Israel Piece
Posted by Rich Noyes on July 24, 2006 - 15:32.
Better late than never? On CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday, CNN's
senior international correspondent Nic Robertson added all of the
caveats and disclaimers that he should have included in his story last
week that amounted to his giving an uncritical forum for the terrorist
group Hezbollah to spout unverifiable anti-Israeli propaganda.
Back on July 18, Hezbollah took Robertson and his crew on a tour of a
heavily damaged south Beirut neighborhood. The Hezbollah "press
officer" even instructed the CNN camera: "Just look. Shoot. Look at
this building. Is it a military base? Is it a military base, or just
civilians living in this building?"
In his original story, Robertson had no complaints about the
journalistic limitations of a story put together under such tight
controls, and Robertson himself at one point seemed to agree with the
Hezbollah propaganda claim that Israeli jets had targeted a civilian
area: "As we run past the rubble, we see much that points to civilian
life, no evidence apparent of military equipment."
Challenged by Reliable Sources host (and Washington Post media writer)
Howard Kurtz on Sunday, Robertson suggested Hezbollah has "very, very
sophisticated and slick media operations," that the terrorist group
"had control of the situation. They designated the places that we
went to, and we certainly didn't have time to go into the houses or
lift up the rubble to see what was underneath," and he even
contradicted Hezbollah's self-serving spin: "There's no doubt that
the [Israeli] bombs there are hitting Hezbollah facilities."
But the closest Robertson came to making any of these points in the
taped package that aired last week was admitting that "we [he and his
CNN crew] didn't go burrowing into all the houses," after pointing
out (for the second time) that "we didn't see any military type of
equipment" in the area Hezbollah chose to let them tour.
Five days later, Robertson argued that "journalistic integrity"
required skepticism: "When you hear their [Hezbollah's] claims,
they have to come with more than a grain of salt, that you have to put
in some journalistic integrity. That you have to point out to the
audience and let them know that this was a guided tour by Hezbollah
press officials along with their security, that it was a very rushed
affair."
While some viewers undoubtedly deduced out that it was "a guided
tour" from the numerous sound bites from the Hezbollah press officer,
it's not as if Robertson ever complained about his limitations or
explicitly warned viewers that there was no way he could confirm any of
the claims.
Nic Robertson, of course, isn't the only correspondent going on these
Hezbollah-arranged tours, as CNN's Reliable Sources noted yesterday.
In a set-up to his interview with Robertson, Kurtz played clips of
NBC's Richard Engel and CBS's Elizabeth Palmer relating their trips
into the damaged areas, with Palmer providing the sort of disclaimer
that Robertson failed to include last week: "This morning, Hezbollah
showed journalists around the ruins of its former stronghold, but
Hezbollah is also determined that outsiders will only see what it wants
them to see."
Now, more of Robertson's live interview (10:15am EDT) on the July 23
Reliable Sources (transcript corrected against the actual broadcast):
Howard Kurtz: "I want to go now to CNN's Nic Robertson, who joins us
live from Beirut. Nic Robertson, we were speaking a moment ago about
the way journalists cover Hezbollah and some of these tours that
Hezbollah officials have arranged of the bomb damage in the areas of
Southern Lebanon. You, I believe, got one of those tours. Isn't it
difficult for you as a journalist to independently verify any claims
made by Hezbollah, because you're not able to go into the buildings and
see whether or not there is any military activity or any weapons being
hidden there?"
Nic Robertson: "Well, Howard, there's no doubt about it: Hezbollah
has a very, very sophisticated and slick media operations. In fact,
beyond that, it has very, very good control over its areas in the south
of Beirut. They deny journalists access into those areas. They can turn
on and off access to hospitals in those areas. They have a lot of power
and influence. You don't get in there without their permission. And
when I went in, we were given about 10 or 15 minutes, quite literally
running through a number of neighborhoods that they directed and they
took us to."
"What I would say at that time was, it was very clear to me that the
Hezbollah press official who took us on that guided tour - and there
were Hezbollah security officials around us at the time with
walkie-talkie radios - that he felt a great deal of anxiety about the
situation....But there's no doubt about it. They had control of the
situation. They designated the places that we went to, and we certainly
didn't have time to go into the houses or lift up the rubble to see
what was underneath."
"So what we did see today in a similar excursion, and Hezbollah is
now running a number of these every day, taking journalists into this
area. They realize that this is a good way for them to get their
message out, taking journalists on a regular basis. This particular
press officer came across his press office today, what was left of it
in the rubble. He pointed out business cards that he said were from his
office that was a Hezbollah press office in that area."
"So there's no doubt that the bombs there are hitting Hezbollah
facilities. But from what we can see, there appear to be a lot of
civilian damage, a lot of civilian properties. But again, as you say,
we didn't have enough time to go in, root through those houses, see if
perhaps there was somebody there who was, you know, a taxi driver by
day, and a Hezbollah fighter by night...."
Kurtz: "To what extent do you feel like you're being used to put up
the pictures that they want - obviously, it's terrible that so many
civilians have been killed - without any ability, as you just
outlined, to verify, because - to verify Hezbollah's role, because
this is a fighting force that is known to blend in among the civilian
population and keep some of its weapons there?"
Robertson: "Absolutely. And I think as we try and do our job, which
is go out and see what's happened to the best of our ability, clearly,
in that environment, in the southern suburbs of Beirut that Hezbollah
controls, the only way we can get into those areas is with a Hezbollah
escort. And absolutely, when you hear their claims they have to come
with more than a grain of salt, that you have to put in some
journalistic integrity. That you have to point out to the audience and
let them know that this was a guided tour by Hezbollah press officials
along with their security, that it was a very rushed affair, that there
wasn't time to go and look through those buildings."
"The audience has to know the conditions of that tour. But again, if
we didn't get all - or we could not get access to those areas without
Hezbollah compliance, they control those areas."
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