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| 2006-11-11 |
| Pics at link. HT french blog Extreme centre. At this point, it’s no longer a surprise when we find that major news networks have a huge bias. It still, however, shocks me how they will do anything to make Israel look bad. Now, Israelis regretfully killed 18 Palestinians. Why/How you can find out at any major “news” network. However, propaganda exposure you can find here: I went through like 300+ pictures on Yahoo! News and they had pictures from Reuters, the A(w/t [MM]P, and the AFP. Now, aside from the fact that in all 300+ captions they mention that Israel troops killed 18 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, they also mixed photos of mourning people at a “funeral” with the destruction of the city that the Israelis caused. Now, if they had put the pictures of the destruction all in the same group, you would have noticed that they simply took the same building and shot pictures of different people standing in/on/around it. Notice, also, the progression of the hole in the wall- pardon the pun. First it starts off kind of small (1), then it gets slightly larger (3), then it’s large enough to fit 2 small children in (4). Are people doing construction work and attending the funeral at the same time? Are photographers, then, just happening to get shots without the demolishers and with random by-standers? Interesting if you ask me. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #2 I really dunno; french internet had a real influence on the EU "constitution" referendum, as it was the only mean available for the "no" advocates to bypass the information control and the opinion-shaping of the french msm (who were overhelmingly biased toward the "yes", to the point of being undemocratic). Still, I wonder about the real influence the internet can have against the massed artillery that television is, for example. It is great for an individual to get "re-information" and being exposed to other views, but I doubt, or at least don't know if, it can change public opinion. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-11-11 09:59 |
| #1 A5089, I appreciate your interesting posts and comments on France. My French is a bit rusty, but I am pleased to see that there are French bloggers who "get it". I hope that the anti-leftist bloggers will change a lot of minds. |
| Posted by: fmr mil contractor 2006-11-11 09:48 |