Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Choix des mots: Pour Reuters, des Israéliens bombardent, mais seules des roquettes visent Israël.

La couverture du conflit par Reuters, au-delà des fraudes éhontées, est essentiellement partiale. Un nouvel exemple;
un détail significatif.
Sur 18 photos de Reuters à propos de la guerre au Liban nous avons “the same pattern”.
Quand un Israélien est la victime, il l’a été atteint par une roquette;
quand un Libanais l’est, il s’agit d’un “raïd israélien” ou bien d’un “bombardement israélien, mais non pas d’un “missile” ou d’un “projectile”.
A rapprocher de la dépêche récente où Yahoo établissait un distinguo entre les Israéliens morts et les libanais tués.
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Orthodox Jews look for a shelter during a rocket attack on the city of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel near the Israel-Lebanon border August 7, 2006.
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Workers from the aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) transfer medical supplies by hand across the Litani River, north of the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon August 7, 2006. The only road link that crossed the river between Tyre in south Lebanon and Sidon was destroyed by Israeli bombardment overnight, essentially sealing the city from the rest of the country.
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Israeli Arab-Christians carry the coffin of Labiba Mazzam, who was killed after Katyusha rockets hit Haifa on Sunday, during her funeral in Haifa August 7, 2006.
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Israeli Arab-Christians carry the coffins of Hanna Hamam and Labiba Mazzam, who were killed after Katyusha rockets hit Haifa on Sunday, during their funeral in Haifa August 7, 2006.
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Workers from the aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) transfer medical supplies by hand across the Litani River, north of the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon August 7, 2006. The only road link that crossed the river between Tyre in south Lebanon and Sidon was destroyed by Israeli bombardment overnight, essentially sealing the city from the rest of the country.
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Israeli firefighters examine the damage to a school building hit by a rocket during an attack on the city of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel near the Israel-Lebanon border August 7, 2006.
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Israeli firefighters examine the damage to a school building hit by a rocket during an attack on the city of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel near the Israel-Lebanon border August 7, 2006.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Noel,

    No, I don't see that this report was biased (for once), despite Reuter's blemished record during this war. It's simply describing the difference between aerial bombardment (bombs dropped from planes several thousand feet up onto buildings which may or may not contain innocent civilians) and ground-to-ground missile attacks (missiles launched from the ground, flying through the air for up to 75 km and hitting buildings which may or may not contain innocent civilians).

    I realise it doesn't make a lot of difference if you happen to be one of those innocent civilians, or related to them, or know them, or be in love with them, but the actual language used in that report wasn't an example of anti-Zionism. It was just a description of the method used to kill and maim children in each case.

    - Steph

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