Ravid Haim died last week … only 15 days old.
Doctors had tried valiantly to save the baby, born through an Emergency C-Section after his pregnant mother, Tzeela Gez, was shot in her car and murdered.
Sure seemed like a newsworthy story to me: a pregnant mother shot and killed … then extraordinary efforts to save her baby: could even be a “show topper”, as we used to refer to TV headline stories.
But did you see much coverage of that story on CBC, CTV or Global? I didn’t see any!
Why?
I believe that’s because Ravid and his mother Tzeela are Israelis … Jews … killed by a Palestinian terrorist.
No story there … for today’s slanted, anti-Israel media!
Had Tzeela been a Palestinian, shot by an Israeli soldier, I have no doubt her murder and the struggle by doctors to her baby would have garnered world-wide media attention: including video of the shooting location; the bullet ridden car; interviews with emotional grieving family members; maybe even pictures of their coffins and, their funerals.
Here’s Ravid’s short-life story:https://www.timesofisrael.com/baby-of-pregnant-terror-victim-dies-after-fighting-for-his-life-for-two-weeks/)
It’s quite apparent to me: the national TV networks in Canada have taken sides … in favour of the Palestinians, even the Hamas terrorists, and as a result, hour after hour, day after day, week after week, viewers are being bombarded by “weighted” stories, aimed at saving Hamas, so it can survive, rebuild, re-arm, fire thousands more rockets into Israel and carry our another attack/massacre as soon as it can. (Read about Hamas’ vow here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/middleeast/hamas-will-not-disarm-gaza-israel-intl.)
Of course, the media don’t openly say that.
What they do is show how ugly the war is in Gaza (and it is!) … and editorially place the blame for all the destruction on Israel, not Hamas, Islamic Jihad, who fired thousands of rockets into Israel and then carried out the Oct 7, 2023 invasion, massacre and hostage-taking and are still oppressing/intimidating the Palestinian people wherever they can.
So we get LOTS of footage (most of it selectively shot, edited and supplied from Palestinian videographers working under the scrutiny of Hamas) of the terrible destruction and the toll the war has taken on Gazan civilians … showing suffering women, children, elderly in every story … highlighting grieving family members, showing body bags, coffins and funerals, but almost NEVER identifying any of the dead or injured as Hamas/Islamic Jihad terrorists/fighters … except for the occasional successfully assassinated major terrorist targets, whom the Israelis announce and identify.
But this is not a blog on the war itself: it’s an exposure of Hamas has been very effective in “using” and manipulating sympathetic media.
Take the accusations three weeks ago that Israel had “bombed a hospital” in Gaza; that was soon modified (after Israel complained) to Israel had bombed “near” a hospital; and a week later, the truth came out: using a deep bunker buster bomb Israel had killed the new leader of Hamas, Mohammed Sinwar, who was indeed hiding in a tunnel beside and underneath the hospital, something Hamas has repeatedly denied existed.
Most of the Western media have ignored or glossed over that very telling revelation.
Where was any hard, tough questioning of Hamas officials (they do have a Press Office) or their supportive anti-Israel commentators/mouthpieces about why that tunnel was there, why was Sinwar hiding so near a hospital etc. ???
In any story, especially a conflict, there is also the other side … something it sure seems to me the CBC, CTV and Global have now almost forgotten … or are willfully ignoring.
Would you be surprised to learn that 860 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the Oct. 8 war began? Most of them reservists (teachers, lawyers, mechanics, scientists, farmers, students, chefs etc.) … called up to fight in a war Israelis never wanted, never started, never even anticipated would happen.
Where are the stories about these large numbers of Israeli deaths? Do killed Israelis not have grieving families … just like the Palestinians? Do they not have funerals? Have you seen those covered? I have not.
Are you aware four more Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza last week? And four more the previous week? Either barely a mention about them or none at all … and nothing about who they were, how they died, what family did they leave behind … in our media.
And did you know every two to three days, Israelis in many cities are still forced to wake their kids up at 3 a.m. and flee to underground bomb shelters when air raid sirens go off, because Hamas is still firing rockets from Gaza and the Houthis are regularly firing missiles from Yemen … specifically timed in the middle of the night to cause as much civilian terror as possible.
Seen that story anywhere?
Think of how living like that would impact YOUR family! Would you want Hamas, Islamic Jihad to be eliminated or to survive … and continue their terror?
The Israelis estimate 20,000 armed Hamas/Islamic Jihad fighters have been killed in Gaza … many of them deliberately hiding in and amongst Gazan civilians and Israeli spokespersons regularly identify many of them by name and Hamas role/rank. Seen that covered anywhere?
In addition to the day after day one-sided anti-Israel stories, note the plethora of one-sided interviews that follow each of them with obviously biased, anti-Israel “experts” who always overwhelmingly blame the plight of the Gazans on the Israelis, never Hamas. Commentators who understand/support Israel’s point of view/positions/actions get very little … or often, no air time at all.
And, of course, Palestinian officials or anti-Israel voices are given HUGE air time, allowed to go on and on, often distorting the truth or even outright lying … totally unchallenged. While Israeli officials or supporters are grilled like hamburgers, often interrupted and given only very short air time.
And when the media do include Israelis themselves , notice how they stack the deck: featuring family members of hostages, who understandably call for an immediate cease-fire to get the release of their loved ones, or Israeli activists/politicians who clearly oppose/dislike Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It’s all slanted!
But do most people even notice?
Watch the CBC, CTV and Global coverage (BBC too) with a critical eye and you too will be appalled at how one-sided pro-Palestinian propaganda is being peddled.
Currently, the big push by naive left-leaning politicians (and by Hamas) is for “an immediate and permanent ceasefire”.
Sounds good … except, that would indeed allow Hamas to survive, to continue to oppress Palestinians in Gaza, to rebuild its massive military infrastructure, smuggle in or build thousands more rockets to eventually fire into Israel and prepare for another invasion, massacre, kidnapping of Israelis … as they have openly vowed to do. (https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/hamas-official-vows-to-repeat-attacks-on-israel-again-and-again-until-it-s-destroyed-196930629782).
Now … and this is important … I am not suggesting in any way that Israeli actions in Gaza should not be reported; but only that BOTH sides of this (or any) conflict should be equally covered by fair, impartial real journalists.
That is not happening!
This blog is an INDICTMENT of activists who have infiltrated legitimate news organizations and are using their very privileged positions to push personal political, ethnic or religious biases with their “stories”.
And not just in the Gaza conflict, but with many other stories as well … too much propaganda, now, disguised as news!
They are disgracing and further damaging a once trusted profession that has been losing its credibility …. now even faster with the current one-sided reporting.
Management should realize viewers (listeners, readers) are not stupid and should not underestimate peoples’ ability to discern manipulated “news” when they see it … and will just stop watching.
When media historians look back at the state of journalism in Canada in this decade, especially when it comes to journalistic ethics involving fairness, impartiality and telling both (or many) sides of a story, they will be appalled!
Meanwhile, we should all mourn the innocent victims of the war in Gaza; but. unlike our media, we should also mourn the innocent victims of the war on the Israeli side … including Tzeela Gev, who was murdered, and her baby Ravid Haim, who was only 15 days old when he died.
Pass it on …
Harv Oberfeld
(Buy Canadian! Many local producers and manufacturers are now suffering from US tariffs. Let’s BUY CANADIAN whenever we can.)
I see TACO is hiding under the desk a seeing which situation serves and saves his cowardly big butt while Isreal does the dirty work in Iran. Some friend of Isreal. But he tells Isreal to keep going. Well duhhh. God what a weasel. He wants to try to come out smelling like a rose and take all the credit and photo ops as peacemaker by waiting to see if Iran capitulates That’s a stretch. But I’m sure Isreal will take care of all the dirty work, no problem, with or without that disgraceful representation of America. TACO Man. The greatest example of the highest bar of a politician who absolutely serves himself and his little thugs above all else. But always himself first. There’s nothing really defining or exemplary about that fool and useful tool of the world’s badmen.
(Response: No doubt the Mad Hatter wants to take credit for any victory/achievement that others achieve! However, I’m happy he has not rushed in to use the bunker buster bomb: that will unleash a whole new expansion of hostilities targeting US interests/bases/embassies etc. around the world. Iran’s nuclear weapon capabilities MUST be eliminated …but hopefully by negotiations over the next two weeks, now that it has been severely debilitated. If not, bombs away! Ho)
Sure the peaceful.way is always the best, but in this case, the Iranian regime, like Putin like Chinas play the the western European and especially Trump.like a fine tuned fiddle. They use Trumps navaite that he thinks they are his BFF buddy’s. Iranians like the Russians are masters in the art of deception and manipulation but at least Isrealis are the most unbelievably focused and most resourceful people and will make excellent competitors of the game this time and knowing what needs to be done. If Trump is so worried and the weak western leaders are to overly worried and sensitive about regional war that may or may not happen then the ingenious Isrealis will take care of matters. They live and breath in the middle of the continual storm, the coddled west doesn’t.
In the mid 60’s my not well educated step father, a gardener, hunter, fisher, man of the land told me something I will never forget while we were fishing for steelhead on the capilano river. There are two things that are going to f up the world. When housing becomes a commodity and the creation of the state of Israel. I can say no more!
(Response: Must be sad to know he was so wrong on both counts. Just imagine a world without the huge numbers of housing (homes, apartments, condos) built by developers/investors (who saw it as an investment commodity) or a world without a nation willing to stand up against Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad! Ho)
Harvey’s prediction: History Will Condemn Media’s One-sided Anti- Israel Coverage of the Gaza War
I read a book a couple of months ago called “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad. Akkad is a journalist and novelist who was born in Egypt, came to Canada when he was 16 and now lives in the US. The genesis of the book was a tweet he put out three weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel and the beginning of the war in Gaza.
Akkad’s tweet/prediction: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
I am just wondering if you and Akkad can both be correct with your predictions?
Gaza is being destroyed and people are dying. Yes Hamas, a terrorist organization, started this war. At the time, I felt that Israel was fully justified in doing what it could to protect itself. I was angered at the pro-Palestinian rallies that occurred the day after Oct. 7. Not only did they lack compassion and empathy for 1200 innocents, I believe they were undermining the support of people like me who want a two state solution to this Middle East mess.
At the same time, especially after 20 months, I can’t watch or read about what’s happening in Gaza with a ho hum they’re getting what they deserve. And I am wondering at what point we can say Hamas is defeated. Gaza could be left a pile of rubble (maybe it already is) and there would still be an Hamas in some form or other. Ideas don’t die except by better ideas.
I can’t predict the future five days from now let alone 50 or 100 years from now. We don’t yet know what the final outcome will be in Gaza. But even if the media were all of sudden to switch their narrative to whatever you think is more favourable to Israel, what will change? Will the war suddenly end? Will people stop dying and being displaced?
On the other hand, I can see plenty of outcomes that will make Akkad’s prediction a possibility.
And just to be clear, I view myself as both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I want the best for both. But what is happening now is not looking good. More and more I am imagining a future where people will look back and say this shouldn’t have happened.
Maybe Hamas will be blamed. Maybe Israel. Maybe the UN or western powers who took too long to offer/force solutions. Maybe complacent citizens of those countries who didn’t demand more from the politicians they voted in. And if the media is condemned which media will it be – ones like the National Post or ones like the Toronto Star?
Response: Akkad and I are talking about to very different things. The topic of Gaza and Hamas and Israel’s (and the world’s response) response will be debated for decades …each side (or several) no doubt making very salient and powerful points. MY issue is quite different … and ALL sides should agree: the media disgrace themselves and fail in their duty when they report only one side of the dispute or push their own biases and agenda. The media (especially the national TV networks (CBC, CTV, Global) are disgracing their profession and turning viewers away even faster with their current one-sided propaganda-style reporting, not just on Gaza but on a whole slew of subjects in the public eye. When the history of the fall from grace and decline in viewership/readership of “news” reporting is analysed, the media will largely have no one to blame but themselves. Ho)
Did you read the story about Judih Weinstein Haggai? Only the National Post today is reporting about her. No other media has talked about her to my knowledge. According to the Post, it is because she doesn’t fit the narrative of the terrible Israeli person. She was a peace activist and teacher. Those who held her and her husband’s bodies are the real murders, holding on them as bargaining chips no less. Shame on the media for being so one sided. I am not at all surprised as its purse strings are largely controlled by the Liberals with cash infusions all the time. The liberals are not pro Israel and I think Carney is committed to giving Palestine statehood, which I don’t think it shoud be granted at this time or any time soon. And his Foreign Minister Anita Anand is certainly antisemitic to say the least. So if the government giving you handouts is supporting one version of the truth, so does the media. It’s a total shame but not going to change so long as the cash keeps coming their way. Look at how CBC has turned out
(Response: Had not seen that. (https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/judih-weinstein-haggai-hamas-gaza) Thanks. I’m amazed that so many in the media, who try so hard to save Hamas and keep it in power, fail to realize how Hamas (and Islamic Jihad) would treat them if they ever came under its power! A free press, democracy, women’s rights, any faith other than strict Sunni Islam would be forcefully eliminated. The media have become useful idiots for Hamas … accepting and parroting whatever figures they provide, whatever allegations they make, the carefully selected, edited videos their local agents provide. This is terrible journalism … dangerous too. Ho)
Don’t know if you saw this one or not:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadas-silence-after-judih-weinstein-haggais-murder-is-a-national-shame
(Response: Yes, saw it in the NP …still waiting for CBC, CTV, Global. Ho)
I don’t watch much news, I’m more of a reader. I’ve noticed National Post is staunchly pro-Israel. In today’s landscape it’s our responsibility to balance our news consumption.
(Response: I agree… the NP seems pro-Israel to me too; and the Toronto Star as heavily pro-Palestinian, and Le Devoir as pro-Hamas. But my biggest concern is TV news … where most people now get so much of their news … and I really believe those who watch it with a critical eye, day in, day out, will notice as I have how terribly one-sided anti-Israel it is … showing almost nothing of the continuing negative side of Hamas still fighting, firing rockets, killing Israeli soldiers and, last week, publicly executing a Gazan Palestinian to instill fear in the population. https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/06/08/hamas-publicly-executes-local-resident-in-gaza-city-square/. See that anywhere on CBC, CTV, Global? I didn’t. Bet if Israel did it, it would rate coverage! Ho)
What we see in the Middle East is that the conflict has entered the abyss of no return.
The failure of the UN to deal with terrorist groups such as Hamas has only inflamed this fiasco. The UN, why bother.
Actions by the Israeli government border on wholesale slaughter and the ruins of what was GAZA reminds one of Lidice, only on a vast scale.
In the short term, the Israelis may score a local victory, but in the long term it will only get worse.
And it will continue because Israel ain’t going anywhere because there is nowhere to go.
What we have is a no win situation, inflamed by religious rancor and abetted by ample funds for the terrorists from Arab States and the Trump MAGA crowd. The civilians, as always are mere pawns in this game of international chess and as always bear the brunt of military and terrorist excesses.
(Response: The media has been far too soft on the UN. The UN has been co-opted and corrupted by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups; has been taken over by its 57 Islamic member nations … MANY of them human-rights violating dictatorships; for years the UN funded and used in UN schools virulently anti-Israel and anti-Semitic text books in its Palestinian schools; allowed Hamas to store rockets in UN properties in Gaza; said nothing as Hamas built hundreds of kilometres of fortified tunnels literally right under its nose; said nothing as Hamas stole dozens of semi-trailers of food; and said and did nothing as Hezbollah imported, stored and fired thousands of rockets from southern Lebanon … yet produces/passes resolutions condemning/blaming Israel ad nauseum. Where is the media??? Aiding and abetting all these outrages … and disgracing the craft of journalism. Ho)
Postscript: As I write this, Israel has done a preemptive decapitation strike in Iran and it may work for now, but the snake has many heads.
The air-raid sirens are blaring in Israel as the Sword of Damocles once again hangs over the Middle East.
Iran and the religious despots that run the country will retaliate of course because god is on their side and will continue the fight because their hate is so ingrained.
As an aside, why I think religious schools should be banned in Canada.
That being said, there will be two immediate losers: 1) Trump, as the focus will not be on his Soviet style military parade for his birthday and 2) Putin, because Iran will need all the rockets and drones they can manage for retaliatory strikes against Israel.
If anything, Israel’s actions benefits the Ukraine!
It is sad to note, that our corporate mainstream media has now been turned into entertainment services, with little real reporting, except for “shock stories” such as the horrible passenger plane crash in India, but with little insight or investigative reporting.
2025 is looking to be a very bad year indeed!
Find it so hard to watch all the bias reporting. BBC is one of the worst in ignoring Hamas and other terrorist groups deliberately attaching of women and children and then hiding behind their own when retaliations come.
Even the Global Imams Council believe Hamas should be done away with.
https://nationalpost.com/longreads/imam-of-peace-mohammed-tawhidi
(Response: Many people may not notice how they are being propagandized by one-sided media, but I’m still a news junkie, and by watching/reading many sources I noticed how bad it had become and how it is getting worse! Just this week, I found out the Israelis, in one of their Gaza attacks, had taken out Asad Abu Sharaiya, the head of the Mujahadeen Brigade. He was identified as taking part in the Oct 7 massacre and reportedly personally killed a mother and her young child and was also responsible for the abduction to Gaza of the bodies of that murdered American/Israeli elderly couple, whose corpses were retrieved last week. The fact the Israelis got him seems newsworthy to me …but clearly doesn’t fit the anti-Israel media’s desired narrative of covering ONLY stories that condemn/make the Israelis look bad. Ho)
I’m not surprised the BBC “is one of the worst of ignoring Hamas”. That is of no surprise to me. The BBC is located in G.B. and the Brits have never been keen on Jews and a whole lot of other groups. Don’t expect BBC to change its attitude or G.B. Its been like that for a very, very long time. Lily Palmer, in her book,
Change Lobsters and Dance details much of what it was like in Europe and B.G.
if you were a Jew.
Why does the press report as it does? Every society has a group they look down on and in Western Society it has been Jews . There have been other groups. However they were visible. Jews weren’t always. No one ever thought red headed, light skinned people would have a Jewish Grandfather.
As our maternal unit always said, Just remember it can always happen again. We are now at that moment where it could happen again. Not many would care if Israel were removed from the map.
The world would save so much money if they learned to get along and stop their wars. Wars are expensive and rebuilding countries , well they needed the Marshal Plan to repair Europe. Can’t even stretch my brain to figure out how much it will cost to rebuild Israel, Iran, and the other countries which have gone to war with Israel. there was a billion dollars worth of damage after the L.A. Riots in 1992.
Prior to that they had the Watts Riots in 1965. Watched that on the 11 p.m. news. It was scary and I’ve always remembered what took place.
As long as there is money to be made in wars, vilification of minority groups it will continue. People might want to have a look around at who benefits during these wars and riots, who suffers, whose houses and communities are destroyed. then we might want to sit down and figure a way around all the b.s. were are fed by those who profit from these misery.
(Response: I think there’s also another issue few ever bring up for fear of being termed “racist” …but the truth is (thanks to immigration … legal and illegal) there are now 4 million Muslims in the UK, 25 million in Europe and 1.7 million in Canada. Most, like everyone else, are good citizens, working to raise their families and fit in to their new Western democratic homes. But too many have brought their old world hates with them (or if born here, adapted their parents/grandparents’ old hates) and are pushing them here, pushing undemocratic policies, regimes and even terrorist agendas on campuses, and, some have also made it into the news business where they push propaganda. I urge readers to chyeck out the Jewish community’s media monitoring website ( https://honestreporting.ca/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21514977015&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8Ii8moT0jQMVAmhHAR19XTL2EAAYASAAEgKPXvD_BwE ) and do a search for CBC, CTV, Global. I believe you will be astounded by the number and the nature of the terrible one-sided biases Canadians are being bombarded with … and the publicly funded CBC is the worst!! Ho)
I refuse to listen to Globals Neetu Garcha.
Her anti colonialism haranges.
Her pro Palestinian bias.
Click.
Next.
Hamas started this war with the unprovoked slaughter of innocent civilians.
Cheered on by thei bloodthirsty fools in Gaza that thought it was a good idea.
Well.
Maybe now, after their “strip” lies in ruins with thousand s of their own dead….they might finally smarten up.
But thats asking for a miracle.
Intelligent, rational decision making.
And where oh where are the other Arab states? Where of where are the refugee camps to house, feed and care for the hundreds of thousands of Gazans.
No where.
No one wants these people who have spent 80 long years fighting and embracing anarchy and death.
Lets Israel finish this mess.
Once and for all.
(Response: Notice I stayed away from specific names in my critique, but since you mention Neetu Garcha, I must confess one of her “stories” recently was, in my opinion, so totally biased, one-sided, featuring interviewees calling for BC schools to include the “nakba” in Holocaust type social studies … fell so short of my own journalistic standards, I actually wrote Corus to complain about that one! Never even got a reply … but a week later, noticed that the Jewish media monitoring group Honest Reporting Canada had also zeroed in on Garcha’s “report”: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/global-news-reporter-neetu-garcha-gives-a-platform-for-nakba-to-be-equated-with-the-holocaust/. In fact, just looked it up and found HRC has complained about Garcha’s on air work four times! I personally think she’s a disgrace as a journalist … and I blame Corus/Global management for debasing their “news” so much. Ho)
I don’t watch Global simply because they are no longer a news station, rather entertainment, like FOX News south of the border.
If I see her on the News….I change the channel.
I dont need to be told I’m a white, patriarchal, colonizer again and again and again and again….
I’m an 8th generation Canadian…
I have nothing to apologize for nor do I wish to be lectured by a self important, intellectual midget with the journalistic credentials of a Barbie doll.
Click
. Channel change…
I’ll be back in 5 minutes when her predictable, boring, harangue….is done.
I completely agree. Booh to dumbed down
Global. Okay for weather reporting.
Don’t think dumbed down accurately describes Global News. Its the comedy hour or perhaps the agony brothers and sisters of t.v. Some of those newscasters and the people they interview look like they are in rehearsal for a dramatic scene in the high school play. Don’t even know why they have Stoko and her side kick on except to repeat what the newscaster has said and look sad.
So when it comes to important international news you certainly won’t find anything of value at Global.
Much of the news in B.C. and elsewhere is about ratings so they can sell time for commercials and make money. The news, who cares. Its about making money. The demographic has changed and thus the news. They don’t really know what people want to know, they just guess and usually its wrong.
Yes, comedy hour describes it well, because they’re a joke.
I would agree that the coverage isn’t what it should be but this is premeditated murder plain and simple. Genocide.
(Response: Having studied details of REAL genocides in history (Armenia, Ukraine (2014), Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, Sudan, Myanmar, and Jews in Europe ….where people were deliberately rounded up and murdered) I don’t see Gaza as fitting that definition. However, this blog is not about the war (which IS terrible!), but the media coverage and I appreciate you agree ” the coverage isn’t what it should be.” Ho)
Extreme Political correctness has infected those News media outlets. They’ve turned themselves into blithering cowards. What’s the use of watching and reading their garbage when you’re not getting fair balanced reporting. Their okay only for weather reports and standard day to day local news. Sometimes. Useless otherwise.
(Response: The problem isn’t only restricted to stories on Gaza: I just watched a BBC interview with Steve Bannon who strongly supported Trump calling in the National Guard in Los Angeles. The reporter was quite aggressive, interrupting him, challenging him …clearly disagreeing: that’s okay, except when I watch BBC interviews with virulently anti-Israel mouthpieces, they let them go on at some length … making very controversial unproven allegations and accusations, but they are almost NEVER challenged … or even interrupted. Sure looks like media double standard and bias to me … which shames journalism. Ho)
I do think the BBC is the worst of the lot. And that also goes for Britain’s pathetic and cowardly Prime Minister Starmer and his biased weakling seemingly anti-Isreal government that seems to have fallen under the extreme activist banner of anti semaitic craziness out there. Starmers and the BBC are biased wimps and backstabbers in my view. Poor Britain No lions roars, but instead only a mild meow from his government of kittens. Churchill would roll over in his grave if he hasn’t already at the knowledge Britain’s ended up.being instead arms of cowards.
(Response: Today, in reporting on Israel’s incredibly sophisticated and pin-pointed attacks against the tyrants in Tehran, minimizing impact on civilians the BBC, of course, could not resists saying “women and children were also killed”. Such great sympathy for the families of Iran’s murderous oppressive military leaders and nuclear scientists! I doubt the BBC hourly and daily reported “women and children also died” in covering the British/Allied bombings of Germany in World War II or Korea or Bosnia or the Falklands. Ho)
Absolutely. I give up trying to figure out why these biased cowardly news people report this way. Where did this come from. Maybe the front desk reporters and anchors have to bow to the wishes of the top people or is it the government of the day that funds them and pulls the political strings or both. Is it in different teachings and brainwashing techniques college campus teachings also in journalism. Whatever it is or combinations thereof, it is really worrisome. I suppose this has happened over the long run like a slow infecting disease with no medicine that was introduced to stem its advance. There is no protection against it really, when governments are the main carrier and spreader of the disease. How people at the BBC have debased themselves so badly truly is a stain and shame to real journalism.
I’m hoping that we here in Canada speak out more like this against our very own homegrown biased baddies in media big and small and even stand up when a government official or government itself comes traipsing in trying to spread and spew their anti- Isreal anti -Semitic biases and ideological sickness on the rest of the population. I think Britain and it government and BBC to be a good rule of thumb and example of a combination that makes for the perfect storm of stupidity beyond comprehension that we should avoid. As of now I think they are a lost cause.
So we’re blessed to have your journalism, which is actually real journalism, and reporting, that’s hard at work. A lost art on many.
(Response: First, something interesting I saw this morning on i24 News (Israeli channel) you will not see on CBC, CTV, Global or BBC: a reporter was doing an on-camera piece bout the war from a street in Tel Aviv, and I noticed on each of the street lamps lining the road two flags … the Israeli flag and rhe Pride flag! Turns out it’s Pride month in Israel … something you will NEVER see in nearby Palestinian West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Jordan, Syria or Iran … and that’s the REAL problem Israel represents to its neighbours: a democracy, with free elections, many other Western values/principles, officially celebrates Gay Pride (although not in religious zealot areas) and has many other human rights campaigns, and a free press as well. That’s what Israel’s enemies really hate/fear/oppose: the truth is they don’t give a damn about the Palestinians … and their actions too keep them out of their countries or isolate in camps those who do make it in (often unable to legally work or have their kids attend public schools).
Now how did our news get so bad? It started years ago, when the media, especially TV in the major markets, started hiring inexperienced kids right out of journalism school, with no experience … because they were cheaper than seasoned, senior reporters. Plus, a new breed of corporate media managers care/reflect less dedication to news quality than bottom lines. I was chided by some when I criticized that and the much lower hiring practices, but now we see the results: “reporters” who are simply ignorant of history, lack the skills/perceptiveness to know their being played, used for propaganda purposes by sophisticated radical activists, campus professors and lobbyists and were never relegated to or weeded out of smaller markets for being substandard journalists pushing/displaying their own agendas/biases.
So we get the low standard of reporting we see now …and they wonder why fewer are watching or going on-line to other sources! Ho)
Yes I watch i24 as part of my variety of TV viewing. I notice that freedom on full display and as part of thier diverse democracy. It’s amazing to to see that in the midst of a desert surrounded by wild hatred and tyranny around them. That is quite something.
It’s really sad though, to also see some European countries leaders being weak as usual in helping Israel in its fight for for saving themselves from a second holocaust down the road. We already know TACOs strategy. All about his own best interest and best photo op in wanting all the credits when everything is finished. It’s all really pathetic disgraceful. Shameful? Disgusting? Oh I don’t know. All seems to fit.
(Response: We’ve seen this movie before: the Israelis have previously taken out attempts to go nuclear by Iraq and Syria; publicly the rest of the world condemned Israel, while … as widely reported later … were very happy with its move, including most of its Arab neighbours. I must say, though, this time, much of the media are reporting the Iran war fairly accurately … noting they are banned from Iran, the internet there has been cut off, while they can report/travel in Israel … except for some sensitive military areas. They’ve also noted has attacked Iranian military and governmental targets, while Iran has mostly targeted civilian areas. Nothing like the terrible one-sided Palestinian propaganda the media are shovelling in reporting the Gaza war. Ho)
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Couldn’t have said it much better ….right on…as a former media guy, I really get upset of the news coverage of today … radio as well … only solution is for the public to speak up … and why so much hate for the Jews? Baffles me ..
Thank gawd for sports .,,, you see both sides immediately!!
(Response: Anyone who notices how one-sided and slanted the media coverage is should be very concerned about how it contributes …even promotes the growth of anti-Semitism. Somebody has to start standing up loud and clear for fair and balanced reporting …and maybe this blog will encourage people to do so. People should write their local newspapers, radio and TV stations when they hear biased one-sided reporting. Where are our MPs on this …especially when it comes to the publicly funded CBC? It’s really a journalistic disgrace! Ho)