March 07, 2008

When It Won’t Say Those Who Kill in Public Places are The Bad Guys, MSM Proves It Can’t Be Trusted

Once again, we've seen a case in which a Palestinian killer goes into a public place and murders whoever he can.

JERUSALEM -- A man concealing an assault rifle and handgun in a box slipped into a cherished Jewish seminary here and opened fire in the library Thursday night, killing eight people in the deadliest attack in Israel in nearly two years.

Witnesses said the assault lasted more than 10 minutes before a seminary student and an off-duty army officer killed the gunman, identified by police as a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem.

And just in case anyone might think this was some sort of random, isolated killer, whose actions were not supported by the broader Palestinian people, the Palestinians had public demonstrations celebrating the brutal murder.

Killings in public places have been carried out by the Palestinians whenever possible throughout this decade:

Such attacks killed hundreds of Israelis during a Palestinian uprising in the early part of this decade but declined sharply in recent years as Israel began sealing itself off from the West Bank with walls and fences.

Yet MSM coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is determined not to overtly pick a side. From LGF commenter Dar ul Harb:

Or from the front page of last week's LA Times (February 28):

"Rockets follow Israeli airstrikes?" That is shocking. Many people who care about this subject are aware that Hamas has been hammering the Israeli city of Sderot with rockets for the entire decade:

Sderot lies one kilometer from the Gaza Strip and town of Beit Hanoun. Since the beginning of the Second Intifada in October 2000, the city has been under constant rocket fire from Qassam rockets launched by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Despite the imperfect aim of these homemade projectiles, they have caused deaths and injuries, as well as significant damage to homes and property, psychological distress and emigration from the city. The Israeli government has installed a "Red Dawn" alarm system to warn citizens of impending rocket attacks, although its effectiveness has been questioned. Thousands of Qassam rockets have been launched since Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip in September 2005.

The AP article just linked also misrepresents the facts with its headline, "Israelis, militants trade deadly strikes."

The MSM has one core product: accurate information. And headlines like this tell the American people that the MSM is adulterating its core product, by hiding and misrepresenting the truth.

When we buy stuff, we like to get the genuine article we're paying for, not some adulterated ripoff fake product.

The American people are appalled that the MSM would support Palestinians who like to blow up or shoot up cars, buses, trains, restaurants, and in this most recent case, a yeshiva. If the MSM can't tell that people who do that are the bad guys, then MSM can't be trusted.

And so MSM circulation continues to decline.