Following a lethal terror attack on a Jewish synagogue early Tuesday morning, in which four Rabbis and a police officer were killed and eight worshippers were injured, CNN, the Guardian, and other western media outlets portrayed anti-Israel biased to an unprecedented degree. Mistaking a Jewish synagogue for a mosque, and failing to mention that the attackers were Palestinian, CNN and the Guardian broke all the rules when it came to reporting. Instead, initial reports from the two agencies stated; “4 Israelis and 2 Palestinians dead in Jerusalem”. This headline would insinuate that an attack was carried out against both Jews and Palestinians while in reality, the two Palestinians carried out the attack and were only shot by police after their brutal murder of innocent worshippers during the morning service. According to a report in the Jerusalem Post, The Guardian ran a story about the attack which they received from the Reuters News Agency. The wire dispatch which Reuters sent to a number of news sites and media outlets, read; ‘Palestinians kill four in Jerusalem synagogue attack’. The article lead with the sentence: ”Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police….” Read more at breakingisraelnews/24630/anti-israel-media-bias-taken-new-extremes/#wOeXQliO63tOhz99.99
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:07:12 +0000
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