Monday, March 14, 2011

Exhibit B: BBC. More Quotation Marks.

BBC and CNN must know something we don't, because quotation marks seem to be the latest trend when reporting on attacks on Israel.
Last time, it was a 'terror attack'. 
Now, it's a 'Palestinian'.
By enveloping everything in quotations, media sources have been inviting readers to question the entire Itamar murder story: "Those Israelis say it's a Palestinian, but who knows? After all, it's Israelis speaking." The murderer himself is intangible, a ghost of the IDF's imagination, a mere speculation on the part of the authorities.

Note, here again, BBC writes,
The family...were stabbed to death by an intruder who broke into their home, Israeli media reported.
BBC Images.
Intruder, not terrorist.
Not to mention the photograph of choice: the vicious Israeli soldier in full gear. None of the images of victims and murder scenes that news websites usually gobble up and broadcast for days afterwards; apparently those types of images only work for Muhammed al-Dura moments. 
And last but not least, a classic BBC-style conclusion:

Nearly half a million Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
They are held to be illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.
BBC must, of course, end a story on a terror attack on Israelis, with a  condemnation of...Israel -- because Israel, with its settlements, just has these types of terror attacks coming.

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