The Daily Mail, ladies and gentlemen. The headline refers to Israeli daytrippers as ghoulish for observing a battle in Syria from a Golan lookout. It then prints 18 huge color photos showing readers exactly what the view is from that lookout, with scenes of military vehicles, UN and IDF positions, and smoke rising from explosions in the fight for Quneitra. Not one picture -- 18. Those ghoulish Israelis, just going ahead and watching a war like its some sort of spectacle...and look! Look at that war! How crazy is that?! Lets share it 2,100 times to show all our friends all those amazing photos of that war those ghoulish Israelis are oggling! As a completely irrelevant side point, the two-dozen or so Israelis caught up there by the Daily Mails great reportage are actually visiting a popular tourist overlook that often sees hundreds of people, Israelis and foreigners alike, passing through each day. It gets better. The very first guy interviewed in the article is a Golan Druze -- that is, a man who almost certainly has family on the other side of the border. It isnt just that the Daily Mail is lying, or that its slandering a nation in the process; they actually missed an opportunity for real journalism, and were too ignorant or dumb even to notice or hide the fact. Here you have it folks. In one impressive piece of journalism, we are presented with the grim real-life evidence that journalists, if they really work at it and are backed by committed editors, can produce copy that is simultaneously profoundly ignorant, viciously slanderous, comically hypocritical (just look at these large color photos of what those ghoulish Israelis are looking at!) and completely uninformative. Well done, journalism. Youve outdone yourself.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 13:21:39 +0000
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