Although as Matt has mentioned, the Huffington Post was quick to cover
today's shooting attack that killed four Israeli civilians, including a pregnant woman, they were also quick to spin it like there is no tomorrow. We'll start with the most obvious:
One would think that a shooting attack would have a picture and caption with the people who were killed, or maybe of the scene of the crime. But the HP instead decided to have a picture of the security fence, a similar but ultimately unrelated issue. The
original Associated Press article has a picture of a bullet-ridden car as their picture, so one must conclude it was a deliberate decision by the Huffington Post editors. Anyone care to guess why they might do that? Aside from perhaps trying to assign either blame or false equivalence in the direction of Israel?
Oh, and it goes without saying that this did not make a unique headline, even in the World section.
Aside from that there were no obvious displays of bias, despite categorizing all the settlers in Hebron as "ultranationalist." As we expected, the excuse-making started early:
There will be more to come. Count on it.
Update: Damn I'm good! The picture was just changed. But the original has been immortalized in pixels.
The murder of Jews will always be excused or explained away by anti-Semites.
ReplyDeleteThe so-called "moderate" Palestinians of the PA only condemned the murders for political reasons. They still see nothing wrong with the murder of Jews on grounds of moral principle.