June 19, 2005

Report: How CNN Biases News Coverage In Favor of Terrorists

The following was forwarded to me by a friend.

Hello.

On May 27th, 2002 a suicide bomber from Yasser Arafat’s organization blew himself up near my 14 months old niece’s cart, murdering the little baby SINAI KEINAN and her grandmother RUTHI PELED. My brother and sister in law LIOR and CHEN KEINAN were injured.

As you will shortly see, the CNN perfected its ability to report only one side of the story (the EVIL side), thereby supporting only that side’s cause and SHOWING THE WORLD HOW BIASED THE CNN IS.

Last Friday (May 31st), the mourning parents made an indescribable effort to come and give two separate interviews:

The first, a live interview for CNN USA (Friday, 4 PM Israel time) – in which they expressed their pain and anguish, thanked the American people for their support and pleaded with the viewers to continue and support Israel in its fight against terror.

The second, a taped interview for CNN International (that unlike CNN USA can be viewed in Europe and Israel through cable) – in which the mourning parents expressed a small part of their strong feelings about Europe’s unbelievable continuous support and “understanding” of the Palestinian’s cause and the brutal, immoral and murderous ways they use to achieve the same.

We were told the interview was to be aired that day 6PM Israel time. That Friday, 8 PM Israel time, CNN INTERNATIONAL FINALLY APPROACHED THE ISSUE BY SHOWING A LONG INTERVIEW WITH THE SUICIDE BOMBER’S MOTHER WHO “EXPLAINED” WHY HE DID WHAT HE DID (the family’s boutique was damaged and a relative was killed in battle(!!!)) !!! WITHOUT AIRING OR EVEN MENTIONING THE INTERVIEW WITH THE YOUNG COUPLE. The same repeated itself numerous times that evening and the day after.

Only the day after, after editing the American connotation of the live interview to the USA (which ofcourse had an effect on the young couple’s choice of words) CNN International cynically aired some short unrelated parts of that interview including the mentioned plea for continuing the support, plus a few seconds of the taped interview (out of a 20 minute interview).

All in all, CNN allocated no less then 16.20 minutes to the murderer’s family as opposed to 5.35 minutes to the Keinan/Israeli side. The interview with the murderer’s mother was aired 5 times (mostly during prime time) as opposed to the US interview with the young couple which was aired twice
(non on prime time).

After being approached by a few government offices, the CNN now bothered to acknowledge “a mistake” and air some additional parts of the interviews, which of course now brings us nowhere.

Putting aside all PR issues, one can only begin to imagine what all this did to the mourning families.

I believe knowing the above will suffice in helping the reader do like I did and DECIDE TO NEVER AGAIN WATCH CNN.

I also believe CNN MUST BE FORCED TO ADMIT WHAT THEY DID, PUBLICLY AND DURING PRIME TIME.

For that cause, I ask you to forward the above story to as many people as you can.

Thank you,

Amit Keinan

It appears to me that, by not responding in kind to those who make war on it, Israel shows that it accepts the murder of its own civilians. The world figures, if it’s okay with Israel, it must be okay. So CNN boosts the killers of children.

As I have recently been discussing, There is no such thing as terrorism: if your civilians are getting killed, you’re in a war. All this talk of being more civilized than those who make war on your people—too civilized, in fact, to make war back—is just a mistake.

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“Gaza Settlers’ Homes To Be Razed, Rice Says”

Yesterday I posted an overview of the Gaza pullout situation.

Today we have official word that the homes of the Israelis are to be destroyed after their residents have been removed by force by their own government, prior to abandoning the land to the terrorists who have been killing them.

This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that those who make war on Israel are now being rewarded. The homes are being destroyed specifically so as not to reward the terrorists with those homes. Nothing could make clearer that the land itself, which the terrorists will be receiving intact, will be a reward to the killers who have made war on Israel.

The enemy hasn’t had to destroy the people’s homes and drive them out of the land—they’ve obligingly done all this themselves, showing how “reasonable” they are.

This appears to be little short of insanity.

NEWT TO THE SENATE: DURBIN MUST BE CENSURED:

[Durbin’s] moral equivalence isn’t just utterly false; it endangers the lives of our young men and women in the military because it arms every radical Islamist with the official-record words of a Senate leader to justify their war of terror against civilized people everywhere.

NEWSWEEK: TERRORIST FORCES ARE “STRENGTHENED BY TALK OF AMERICAN EXIT PLANS.”