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Townhall
How the Media
Craft Victory for Hamas
Ben Shapiro
Aug 06, 2014
On Tuesday, CNN's Wolf Blitzer hosted Hamas spokesman Osama Hamden. The
week before, Hamdan labeled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
"a new image of Hitler" on the network. But now, for some reason,
Blitzer stumbled into a random act of journalism: He asked Hamdan about
comments he had made suggesting that Jews used Christian blood in
matza. Hamdan stumbled around and blamed the Jews for their action in
Gaza.
Blitzer called Hamdan's comments an "awful, awful smear."
The very fact that this represented a unique moment in the media
coverage of the Israel-Hamas Gaza war demonstrates the malpractice of
the media. The first questions on the media's collective tongue should
have been: What does Hamas stand for? What are its goals? Why does it
use women and children as human shields? Why does it hide military
resources in civilian areas?
But that had to wait for a month.
In the meantime, CNN viewers saw an unending stream of dramatic images
from Gaza of Palestinian Arab suffering: heavy blasts from Israeli
ordinance, screaming women, bleeding children. Every so often, CNN
punctuated its coverage with death toll statistics -- never mentioning
that it received those statistics from the Palestinians themselves, and
neglecting to mention the Palestinians' regular practice of classifying
dead terrorists as civilians. Then CNN asked questions about Israeli
"proportionality" and wondered aloud about whether Israeli strikes were
sufficiently "targeted...
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