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Originally Posted by Ustwo
You didn't really answer the question. Do you think that the press coverage, from the mainstream outlets, is baised as presented by the mainstream media, in reguards to Israel?
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Yes. Israel is overrepresented and Palestine is underrepresented in the medias of the West. When Israeli soldiers are kidnapped, we know their names, the circumstances, and we usually get backround on Hezbollah or the PLO as a terrorist group. If Lebanese or Palestinians are kidnapped, it's a victory in the war on terror, as if to suggest that all Lebanese are Hezbollah and all Palestianians are PLO. This is, of course, absurd. MOST Lebanese are not Hezbollah, and before the recent conflict, only a small percentage of the population supported the Hezbollah. They found virtually no support in the North of Lebanon at all. Liekwise, the PLO and Hamas are only organizations in the Palestinian world, and most Palestinians abhore the violence, even agains Israel.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Also why bring up O'Reilly? His is an opinion type segment, yet when people bring up hard news bias, as in 'just the facts mam' the counter is to bring up someone like O'Reilly or Limbaugh? We know what side of the fense they play on, but a supposedly unbiased piece from a qualified journalist doesn't come with a liberal or conservative tag in the byline.
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It mainly because I hate Bill so damn much that he comes to mind whenever I think of the pinnacle of evil in journalism. Eventually, there will be a Godwin Law for O'Reilly (was that statement a Godwin, I wonder?).
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
What is a liberal source? Is a terrorist a liberal source? Is the desire to help the poor 'underdog' so strong in the liberal mind that they are willing to believe anything fed to them by known murderers to advance the cause of the underdog? This is just why I can't get it. If anyone in the region are liberals its the Israeli's. Compared to the Islamists, the Israelis are pot smoking hippies. There is nothing 'liberal' about Hezbollah, the PLO, or Syria, so why trust them?
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No the liberal is the one intervierwing the "terrorist", or rather the Palestinian or Lebanese. The "terrorists" are a wild combination of conservative and liberal, so much so that using the con/lib labels for them are really quite useless.