No Lebanese casualties

mammasan

By the looks of all the major media headlines you would think that not one lebanese civilians was killing during Israeli attacks.

http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Out of these four major news websites there is not one headline or even subhead to indicate the death toll in Lebanon,but the Israeli death toll is the dominate headline in most of them.

Funny that the one news source that has made a headline out of the Lebanese death toll has been Fox News. So much for that Liberal bias in the media.

http://www.foxnews.com/

ConX

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/20_fleeing_Lebanese_villagers_killed_by_Israeli_missile

I wonder how many of them will cover this?

mammasan

ConX wrote:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/20_fleeing_Lebanese_villagers_killed_by_Israeli_missile

I wonder how many of them will cover this?

It will probably end up as a small bullet point near the end of an article.

ConX

Indeed.

Complete and utter Asshole media.......

shiraz

ConX wrote:

Indeed.

Complete and utter Asshole media.......

Hi again from Israel,

As far as for the Israeli media: TV & local internet sites play LOTS of Pictures from Lebanon. It looks h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e. Yesterday I talked to a Lebanese acquaintance who moved in to Israel 6 years ago. He got in touch with his family & friends from back home, and they had told him Hezbollah entered their private homes, mosques, UN public facilities and others civilian buildings IN FORCE, in order to fire missiles towards northern Israel. According to them, there is a HUGE problem to run away or hide because the Hezbollah people took over everything & the IDF is shooting towards the launchers. There are reports here that some northern Israeli & southern Lebanese communities asked the Israeli gov & the IDF to try everything they can in order to avoid from innocent civilians getting hurt. In addition to that, we hear more and more criticism about Hezbollah's actions in the last few days from arab reporters / ministers / citizens in mid eastern countries (including Lebanon!), along side with condemnation for Israel's actions in Lebanon. There is an attempt to solve things up with the help of Italy's prime minister, lets hope it'll work.

As far as for me: Woke up to the sound of alarms and explosions. My home town, port city of Haifa was under attack. One of the missiles hits a work shop, kills 8 people and injures 19. 900,000 residents from Haifa & surrounded cities have'nt been out of their shelters since morning. The IDF had to increase his actions against launchers - Haifa has lots of industrial facilities, hitting them means a large scale disaster that can effect Israel and its surrounding. NO ONE except Nasralla wants that to happen.

Hope we'll hear some better news tomorrow.

El_Kabong

shiraz wrote:

Hi again from Israel,

As far as for the Israeli media: TV & local internet sites play LOTS of Pictures from Lebanon. It looks h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e. Yesterday I talked to a Lebanese acquaintance who moved in to Israel 6 years ago. He got in touch with his family & friends from back home, and they had told him Hezbollah entered their private homes, mosques, UN public facilities and others civilian buildings IN FORCE, in order to fire missiles towards northern Israel. According to them, there is a HUGE problem to run away or hide because the Hezbollah people took over everything & the IDF is shooting towards the launchers. There are reports here that some northern Israeli & southern Lebanese communities asked the Israeli gov & the IDF to try everything they can in order to avoid from innocent civilians getting hurt. In addition to that, we hear more and more criticism about Hezbollah's actions in the last few days from arab reporters / ministers / citizens in mid eastern countries (including Lebanon!), along side with condemnation for Israel's actions in Lebanon. There is an attempt to solve things up with the help of Italy's prime minister, lets hope it'll work.

As far as for me: Woke up to the sound of alarms and explosions. My home town, port city of Haifa was under attack. One of the missiles hits a work shop, kills 8 people and injures 19. 900,000 residents from Haifa & surrounded cities have'nt been out of their shelters since morning. The IDF had to increase his actions against launchers - Haifa has lots of industrial facilities, hitting them means a large scale disaster that can effect Israel and its surrounding. NO ONE except Nasralla wants that to happen.

Hope we'll hear some better news tomorrow.

a large scale disaster kinda like bombing bridges, hospitals, airports, schools...???

funny, you mention all these arabs condemning hezbollah but where is the equal condemnation for israel?

shiraz

El_Kabong wrote:

a large scale disaster kinda like bombing bridges, hospitals, airports, schools...???

funny, you mention all these arabs condemning hezbollah but where is the equal condemnation for israel?

from my original post: "along side with condemnation for Israel's actions in Lebanon". The arab world condemed us both, and its unusual so I tought I'll tell you that fact.

Large scale disaster = Israel and its surrounding (not only Labanon) will get hurt, something like an ecological disaster (sorry, my english is not that good).

hailhailkc

mammasan wrote:

By the looks of all the major media headlines you would think that not one lebanese civilians was killing during Israeli attacks.

http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Out of these four major news websites there is not one headline or even subhead to indicate the death toll in Lebanon,but the Israeli death toll is the dominate headline in most of them.

Funny that the one news source that has made a headline out of the Lebanese death toll has been Fox News. So much for that Liberal bias in the media.

http://www.foxnews.com/

So much for Fox not being "fair and balanced", huh?

Abookamongstthemany

I was thinking the exact same thing! I couldn't believe how blatantly one sided the coverage was!! It came across like the Lebanese were evil and deserved what they were getting....while Israel was being attacked and terrorized....thats how I saw the coverage, it all seems like opinions and misplaced ones at that, there wasn't too much news put in the mix.

Transidentity

El_Kabong wrote:

funny, you mention all these arabs condemning hezbollah but where is the equal condemnation for israel?

shiraz wrote:

In addition to that, we hear more and more criticism about Hezbollah's actions in the last few days from arab reporters / ministers / citizens in mid eastern countries (including Lebanon!), along side with condemnation for Israel's actions in Lebanon. There is an attempt to solve things up with the help of Italy's prime minister, lets hope it'll work.

unless i misinterpreted shiraz's post, he did mention it, unless i misinterpreted the questioned you posed to shiraz. if you are talking about the mainstream media, then i agree.

NMyTree

Of course not.

It's all propaganda.

It's about creating a victim and a villain.

It's about brainwashing us into rooting and supporting Israel.

We have no real news on television. We have a script written and designed to elicit specific, beneficial reactions.

El_Kabong

Transidentity wrote:

unless i misinterpreted shiraz's post, he did mention it, unless i misinterpreted the questioned you posed to shiraz. if you are talking about the mainstream media, then i agree.

yes, that is what i meant...shoudl it really be news that the arabs are condemning what israel is doing??? my point is they are also condemning what hezbollah is doing...they are saying both sides in this is wrong...yet from the opposited end they are only saying hezbollah is wrong and israel is justified in 'protecting itself'

NMyTree

Much like you posting and content habits, except you lean the opposite way.

Otherwise, no difference at all.

Abookamongstthemany

NMyTree wrote:

Much like you posting and content habits, except you lean the opposite way.

Otherwise, no difference at all.

1. I'm not a major news source
2. The damage being inflicted is NOT close to being equal but to watch the news you would think the otherway around.
3. The other side is already being represented here and on the news over and over again...excuse me for trying to equal out what's being put out there.

Both sides are doing bad things but not a an equal portion, yet no one wants to say that.

Transidentity

El_Kabong wrote:

yes, that is what i meant...shoudl it really be news that the arabs are condemning what israel is doing??? my point is they are also condemning what hezbollah is doing...they are saying both sides in this is wrong...yet from the opposited end they are only saying hezbollah is wrong and israel is justified in 'protecting itself'

ok, i think i see your point, that it was interesting that the Arabs were condemning both Israel & Hezbollah & you haven't seen that from Israeli and/or the American media. it wasn't a statement made specifically to shiraz.

i would imagine there are Israelis (much like a lot of us in the states or Europe) that are not pleased with their government's actions/decisions. just because we haven't heard their voices, doesn't mean they are not there. it's no different than the biased media coverage on this whole issue.

NMyTree

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

1. I'm not a major news source
2. The damage being inflicted is NOT close to being equal but to watch the news you would think the otherway around.
3. The other side is already being represented here and on the news over and over again...excuse me for trying to equal out what's being put out there.

Both sides are doing bad things but not a an equal portion, yet no one wants to say that.

My post wasn't directed at you. It was for EL Kabonger.

Regardless, if anyone is going to spout off about fair and balanced coverage, they should take the concept to heart.

rebornFixer

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

1. I'm not a major news source
2. The damage being inflicted is NOT close to being equal but to watch the news you would think the otherway around.
3. The other side is already being represented here and on the news over and over again...excuse me for trying to equal out what's being put out there.

Both sides are doing bad things but not a an equal portion, yet no one wants to say that.

Lebanese civilians are the people suffering here ... The Isrealis and the terrorists are both getting off easier than these people. While I put the onus on Isreal to suspend attacks on Lebanon, I think the government of the latter country probably bears some responsibility as well, for letting extremists operate out of the nation for so long.

rebornFixer

NMyTree wrote:

My post wasn't directed at you. It was for EL Kabonger.

Regardless, if anyone is going to spout off about fair and balanced coverage, they should take the concept to heart.

El Kabong is a Doberman, and Isreal is his favorite chew toy. Don't expect a miracle here.

Abookamongstthemany

NMyTree wrote:

My post wasn't directed at you. It was for EL Kabonger.

Regardless, if anyone is going to spout off about fair and balanced coverage, they should take the concept to heart.

No, not when it's already so unequal

NMyTree

reborncareerist wrote:

El Kabong is a Doberman, and Isreal is his favorite chew toy. Don't expect a miracle here.

I don't. Just pointing it out.

Just trying to be fair and balanced:D

DarkStar

hailhailkc wrote:

So much for Fox not being "fair and balanced", huh?

they are just mad that the IDF sniped at one of their reporters live on the air.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Fox_crew_shot_at_in_Israel_0713.html

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