Journalists Find "Calm" When Only Palestinians Die

[tlcandie]

http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0822-09.htm


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NEW YORK - August 22 - The deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem on August 19 was foreshadowed by a pair of suicide attacks a week earlier which killed two Israeli civilians. While U.S. media tended to portray these attacks as a return to violence after a relatively peaceful period, there were numerous killings in the weeks leading up to the suicide bombings that underscore the lack of evenhanded attention given to loss of life in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
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After a month and a half in which Palestinians were being killed several times a week and receiving relatively little mention, the Washington Post and New York Times both put the bombings on their August 13 front pages, each declaring the violence a break from weeks of "relative calm," and each including a front-page photo of the victims' relatives in mourning. USA Today also put grieving relatives on the front page, along with the headline, "Two Suicide Attacks End a Six-Week Lull in Conflict." One can empathize with the losses of those survivors while recognizing that the families of the Palestinians who died during the "lull" were virtually invisible.
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In order to convey the Mideast crisis in all its complexity, journalists need to take seriously the violence suffered by all communities. References to "relative calm" while Palestinians are being routinely killed only serve to trivialize human life and obscure the cycle of violence that afflicts the region.
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[laura888]

1. kick!

Also shown here:

http://www.fair.org/press-releases/relative-calm.html

I'm really tired of this biased treatment by the media.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. A dead person is a dead person. Always a loss.

[Deja Q]

3. America is pro-israel, hypocrisy and all

Oh well. America is so one-dimensional it's beyond sick. Especially with Mr. Born-Again-in-Chief*...

Now I'm not anti-Semitic, but don'tcha think that anti-Jew and anti-US sentiment will arise because of all this? (not very responsible on the part of the US media to be so one-sided... they're adding to the violence and hatred. Very despicable on their part.)