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| CNN uses scare quotes to describe Itamar terror attack |
| 2011-03-14 |
| [Jerusalem Post Front Page] The director of Israel's Government Press Office sent a letter to CNN's Jerusalem Bureau Chief Sunday demanding an apology for a story on CNN's website that put "terror attack" in quotations in the headline of its story on Friday night's atrocity in Itamar. Responding to the story headlined "Israeli Family of 5 Killed in 'Terror Attack,' Military Says," Oren Helman wrote Kevin Flower that he was "dumbfounded and astonished" to read that the slaughter of the Fogel family is "what the Israeli army calls a 'terrorist attack'." "Your remarks sound as if we are talking about an IDF 'claim' that this was 'a terrorist attack' and that this is not necessarily the case," he wrote. "If this is not a terrorist attack, then what is?" Helman, saying that "there is a limit to the extent of objectivity regarding such a horrific deed," wrote that an apology from CNN was in order. CNN International, in response, said that it does not respond in public to private correspondence. The news organization did issue a statement saying, however, that it was "standard journalistic practice for news |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 "10,000" "Japanese" "killed" in "tsunami"... FTFY, BP. It's important to be completely accurate when imitating the Communist "News" Network. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-03-14 15:38 |
| #2 10,000 Japanese killed in "tsunami"... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-03-14 13:27 |
| #1 Here in ME we've an expression kul kalb baji yomo (every dog has its day [when it gets what's comming to it]). |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-03-14 13:16 |