CNN’s Freudian Slip

[Dos Equis]

Pretty blatant anti-Israel bias. 

CNN’s Freudian Slip
IZZY LEMBERG
November 19, 2014

In a violent terror attack in Jerusalem this week, two Palestinian men stormed into a synagogue carrying hatchets and pistols. Moments later, four Jews were dead and the synagogue was a blood bath. An Israel policeman later succumbed to his wounds, bringing the total dead to five.

If coverage of Operation Protective Edge last summer made a clear case for media bias against Israel, reporting on this week’s gruesome terror attack was a whole new level of media malpractice.

In a serious gaffe, CNN ran a headline reporting a mosque was attacked, not a synagogue. It is not a coincidence that CNN got the story 100% wrong in its initial reports. One doesn’t have to dig deeply into the subconscious to wonder how this happened; CNN had a massacre at a mosque by Israelis on the brain. It was not simply an error, it was a Freudian slip.

CNN also ran the following headline: “4 Israelis, 2 Palestinians dead in Jerusalem,” which equated the innocent victims with the butchers who killed them.

According to the Facebook page of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, whose picture appeared with the mosque graphic while being interviewed by CNN, he was so upset about CNN’s coverage that he called the network and demanded an explanation. CNN apologized to Barkat and later issued a public apology. CNN also said they would conduct an internal investigation to try to get to the bottom of what actually happened. Good luck with that.

Sure, CNN apologized but the damage that was caused as millions of viewers around the world were misled about this awful attack was already done.

Distorted coverage across the Western media continued, as news outlets deliberately left out the fact that Palestinians were responsible for the violent murders in the Har Nof Synagogue. There is something in the air that these news agencies breathe that convinces them that Israel is automatically guilty no matter what the facts are.

The CBC ran this headline: “Jerusalem police fatally shoot 2 after apparent synagogue attack.”

The Guardian received a wire dispatch from Reuters that said: ‘Palestinians kill four in Jerusalem synagogue attack’. But the Guardian’s website changed the headline by leaving the word Palestinians out altogether: “Four worshippers killed in attack on Jerusalem synagogue”

CBS anchor woman Nora O’Donnell said that the attack occurred at a “contested religious site” when in fact Har Nof is a synagogue in West Jerusalem in a 100% ultra-orthodox neighborhood. To get this story wrong means that whoever wrote the copy either didn’t do the slightest bit of fact checking or that the atmosphere in the newsroom is so utterly corrupted by a hatred of Israel that they were willing to sabotage their own credibility. Are these really errors? Or is this malice?

Later that morning, when Economy Minister Naftali Bennett showed a picture of one of the Jewish victims of the attack, the BBC asked him not to show the picture prompting British Journalist Jake Wallis Simons to tweet:

“BBC refuses to show picture of murdered Jewish worshiper. Didn’t have a problem with dead Gazans, I recall.”
The BBC has attained a new level of hypocrisy and denial. During Operation Protective Edge last summer, BBC viewers were treated to a parade of pictures of injured innocent children in Gaza with many pictures later proven to be not only from dubious sources but in many cases doctored or from the conflict in Syria. Pictures of Jewish victims however, are not fit to air.

As a lifelong journalist, watching the news coverage of this terrible event made me feel totally defeated. The fact that so many news organizations got it wrong indicates to me that this is not a matter of coincidental error, this is the Big Lie in action.

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/cnns-freudian-slip/#ixzz3JdgoMPnl

[loco]

Bastardos!   

[andreisdaman]

Somehow you are making abig deal about nothing..probably an editing mistake

[Dos Equis]

Somehow you are making abig deal about nothing..probably an editing mistake

Did you read the article?  Those are not editing mistakes. 

[loco]

Somehow you are making abig deal about nothing..probably an editing mistake

LOL

[andreisdaman]

CNN is the most trustworthy news organization among the cable networks.......FOX braodcasts propaganda all day and all night....MSNBC ..well...who cares about what they think>>?

[Soul Crusher]

Somehow you are making abig deal about nothing..probably an editing mistake

[Dos Equis]

lol   

[Dos Equis]

 

CNN's Banfield: Since Conscription in Israel Makes 'Everyone' a Soldier, Everyone's a Target
By Jack Coleman | November 20, 2014

Next time she's looking for work, Ashleigh Banfield might consider public relations for Hamas. Then again, she's already doing it.

In the wake of Tuesday's horrific attack by Palestinians against four men during morning prayer at a synagogue in Jerusalem, Banfield earnestly sought to find someway, anyway to explain how the massacre might be justified.

Her opening came while speaking with retired Harvard Law School  professor Alan Dershowitz, whose new book, "Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel's Just War Against Hamas," leaves little doubt that he supports Israelis' right to defend themselves from predators committed to their annihilation --

BANFIELD: It feels like there's no end and now we're starting to see potentially that this could be more lone wolf than organizational.

DERSHOWITZ: Well, it's never lone wolf in the sense that you read the statements made by (Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud) Abbas and by Hamas and you see that there are incitements there. When Abbas said ...

BANFIELD: Well, Abbas said he was condemning it, though ...

DERSHOWITZ: ... that was fine but he wrote a letter of consolation to the man who previously murdered an Israeli in a similar area and he wrote a letter to the family, and they name parks after their terrorists and murderers. Israel, on the other hand, always condemns individuals who make attacks on individual Palestinians. So there's no moral equation or symmetry there.

BANFIELD: And then ultimately when you're looking there, and I think Americans can really identify with this having been involved in a war on terror for 13 years, it is still a war, it is not just crimes. Effectively, there's a philosophical war going on and soldiers come in all forms.

DERSHOWITZ: No.

BANFIELD: And when you have mandatory conscription and service in Israel, effectively Palestinians will say it's war against everyone because everyone's a soldier.

DERSHOWITZ: Well, that's just racism and bigotry to say that everyone is a soldier.

BANFIELD: But everybody is.

DERSHOWITZ: No, not everybody is, first of all, number one. Number two, they're not soldiers at the time. The law of war is very clear -- you can't kill a 2-year-old child claiming he's going to be a soldier. I guess then Israel could say, we can kill a 2-year-old Palestinian because he'll grow up and be a terrorist. You have to have rules of warfare and rules of warfare forbid the deliberate killing of civilians and this was a deliberate killing of civilians in a synagogue.

Not sure about you, but I know which of the two I'd want representing me in court ...

As Dershowitz stated, not "everyone" in Israel serves in the military under mandatory conscription -- and even if that were true, internationally recognized laws of war do not allow indiscriminate killing of military personnel under all circumstances. You'd think a CNN anchor hosting a show on legal issues would know this.

Banfield went beyond saying the conscription argument is cited by Palestinians -- she claimed Palestinians could "effectively" make this argument. In other words, she sees it as valid.

Those exempt from military service in Israel include married and pregnant women, mothers, religious scholars, conscientious objectors, Israelis living abroad, Arab citizens and some with criminals records. Due to the exemptions, an estimated 40 percent of Israelis never serve in their military. Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned in 2007 that the nation's armed services were "gradually becoming the army of half the people."

The Knesset voted overwhelmingly in March to end the exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews studying in seminary, an exemption in place since Israel's founding in 1948.

In the case of four men murdered at the Kehilot Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem -- three rabbis and a British-born Jew who immigrated to Israel in 1993 -- all of the victims were well past the age of 30 and would have been exempt from military service.

Dershowitz was so angered by Banfield's assertion, he later told The Algemeiner, that "it really required me to control my temper."

Banfield, Dershowitz alleged, "parroted Hamas' outrageous argument that every 2 year old and 90 year old in Israel is a soldier. It's particularly ironic in the context of the attack on the synagogue, because the people killed were beyond military age."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2014/11/20/cnns-banfield-conscription-israel-makes-everyone-soldier-everyone#sthash.nqIQuZ33.dpuf

[240 is Back]

LOL at a world where Ashleigh Banfield has been working on networks for almost 2 decades.

just unreal.   she's shrill, unoriginal, dramatic and awkward. 

[andreisdaman]

LOL at a world where Ashleigh Banfield has been working on networks for almost 2 decades.

just unreal.   she's shrill, unoriginal, dramatic and awkward. 

and HOT