Shapiro Uses News Hour to Distort Reality
Despite the efforts of host Gwen Ifill to challenge him on some key points, Free Gaza Movement leader Adam Shapiro used PBS NewsHour to propagandize on behalf of his radical organization's flotilla stunt.
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Fauxtography at Reuters: What Was Removed?
UPDATE, June 8: Reuters Posts Original Photos, Continuing to Justify Itself. Reuters, long faulted by CAMERA for its photographic bias, and the first news agency shown to be guilty of "fauxtography," has been exposed yet again! In Wake of Flotilla, NPR Coverage is Listing
NPR news analyst Daniel Schorr brands Israel's blockade of Hamas a "blockade of hate," while colleague Sheera Frankel ignores Erdogan's endorsement of Hamas. Tilted Gaza reports ignore Israeli offers to deliver flotilla aid, including concrete, and Hamas' refusal. The Gaza Flotilla: Falsehoods and Facts
In the aftermath of Israel's raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, the media provided non-stop coverage with both information and misinformation. This backgrounder sorts out the facts from the falsehoods.
Greta Berlin: Gaza Flotilla Propagandist
Greta Berlin, spokeswoman for and co-founder of the Free Gaza movement, is a radical anti-Israel activist with a background in communications and theater arts. She apparently has no compunction about distorting the facts to further her agenda. On Flotilla, International Herald Tribune Editors Asleep at the Helm
International Herald Tribune editors were asleep at the helm, ignoring video evidence showing violence on the part of the flotilla passengers, whitewashing IHH, and giving a distorted picture of international law.
UPDATED: Radical, Pro-Hamas “Flotilla” Seeks Media Win
Radical Europeans, far-left Americans and pro-Hamas Islamists may have little else in common, but they've come together for a week of agitprop called the "Freedom Flotilla" aimed at pressuring Israel to relax its naval embargo on Gaza. The question is will journalists report who the players really are and what they're up to?
Gaza Flotilla Crisis Yields More Coverage, More Bias
In the aftermath of Israel's operation to prevent pro-Palestinian radicals from violating the naval blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, media organizations are again focusing on Israel and its opponents in a way reminiscent of the onset of the second Palestinian "intifada." Israels Right to Blockade Gaza and to Interdict Shipping
Under international law Israel is within its rights to establish a maritime blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, and to arrest "peace activists" on board vessels attempting to run the blockade, since Hamas is a hostile entity engaged in illegal armed confiict against Israeli civilians. Presby Peacemakers Attack Jewish Groups in the U.S.
The Israel-Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) injects anti-Jewish animus into peacemaking efforts by obliquely linking acts of violence to Jewish groups in the U.S.