Thursday, September 15, 2011

Choice: News Blackout or Fabrication

Meanwhile, over at the Guardian’s sister publication in Israel, Ha’aretz, Elder of Ziyon reports that Ha’aretz amended its headline on this story to make the PLO sound less antisemitic.
The initial headline was “PLO Official: Palestinian state to be free of Jews” which was later changed to “PLO official: Palestinians, Israelis must be totally separated”.
As Elder noted:
Ha’aretz is so heavily invested in the false meme that the Palestinian Arab leadership wants to have peace with Israel that they couldn’t stomach that original, accurate headline that showed that their idea of “peace” is the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from “Palestine.”
A Ha’aretz editor decided to tone it down, so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of Ha’aretz readers who have come to expect a certain kind of news that conforms to a pre-existing viewpoint.
Pal/Arabs and newsmen prefer to be silent on the "ethnic cleansing of all Jews" as part of a peace agreement.

So what’s worse – not reporting the story at all a la Guardian or misreporting the story a la Ha’aretz? 
 

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