[antimedia] antimedia: It's beginning to look like....

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Posted by antimedia:
It's beginning to look like....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1154970155.shtml


   ....the war between Israel and Lebanon will be the story of [1]the
   atrocities that weren't, as the Lebanese Prime Minister has now
   revised the death toll in another "tragedy" down from 40 dead to just
   one dead.

     Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person
     was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of
     Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported.
     "The massacre in Houla, it turned out that there was one person
     killed," Reuters quoted Siniora as saying. "They thought that the
     whole building smashed on the heads of about 40 people ... thank
     God they have been saved."
     Siniora had earlier told Arab foreign ministers in Beirut that the
     attack "was a horrific massacre ... in which more than 40 martyrs
     were victims of deliberate bombing."
     Saniora said he had based the initial tally on unspecified
     information that he had received, The Associated Press reported. He
     offered no other explanation for the error.

   "Unspecified information"? That would be Hezbollah's media relations
   people, most likely.
   I find it interesting that journalists complain that it's too
   dangerous to go to Lebanon and that Hezbollah "hassles" them and
   "threatens" them when they do, and so therefore they are forced to use
   "stringers" (local "journalists") who can get the story. Yet it never
   even occurs to them that if the stringers can move about freely,
   taking pictures and submitting stories, that the "news" they're
   reporting just might be what Hezbollah wants reported.
   You'd think our vaunted media would be intelligent enough to figure
   that out, wouldn't you? Perhaps it's because they don't want to?

References

   1. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/07/mideast.main/