The director of the Israeli Government Press Office has taken issue with CNN’s use of what some might call “sarc quotes” – or, perhaps more aptly, “Yeah, right” quotes – in the following CNN headline:
Israeli family of 5 killed in ‘terror attack,’ military says.
“Your remarks sound,” the director pointed out, “as if we are talking about an IDF ‘claim’ that this was ‘a terrorist attack’ and that this is not necessarily the case. If this is not a terrorist attack, then what is?”
CNN said in its defense that it is “standard journalistic practice for news organizations to put quotation marks around remarks attributed to third parties.”
Great. I guess that means we’ll be seeing CNN headlines like –
NATO “bombs” kill three Taliban insurgents, locals report
or –
Over 10,000 dead in aftermath of “earthquake”, Japanese authorities say
“Muslims” murdered innocent sleeping children and their parents.
The modern lefty anti-Semitics can be so subtle.
CNN is “not” a party to the left-wing hatred of all things ‘Israeli’.
>The director of the Israeli Government Press Office has taken issue with CNN
Wake me up when the Mossad has taken issue with the CBC.
err.. “taken issue” rather.
“CNN” a cable “news” network that purports to “report news”.
The Anti-Semites don’t even care anymore. They feel free to do as they please now. Say what they want with no opprobrium.
I’m just surprised the CNN commentator isn’t giving out free candy.
Anyway, to deny evil is to embrace it.
The MSM Marxist Jew hating love in, will have a lot to answer for in the future. It just doesn’t know it yet.
JMO
PS EBD Good post. CNN has become a disgrace.
To think I used to even record programs from them makes me ill.
Sun TV is going to be using CNN as their foreign news source, I’m not amused.
Second the Liberal MSM has white washed the slaughter of a Jewish family lest it offend the leftards globally.
Really? Sun News will just commit to a single foreign source instead of selecting coverage on a per case basis? That sucks no matter who they pick.
The Isreali military needs to learn the correct phrasing:
Israeli family of 5 killed in absolutely unacceptable act, military says.
/sarc
‘Terrorist attack.’ Yes, because WB-Gaza Arabs can’t be terrorists, by definition; they’re freedom fighters.
CNN: Cable “News” Network
By reporting this way CNN does not have to bother with “facts”.
Why dignify plain murder with the name of terrorism?
In other words, they themselves wouldn’t have called it a terror attack. Perhaps an accident, or a misunderstanding, or a clash, but nothing so provocative as calling it a terror attack. That will just incite them to further violence, they would say, inadvertently admitting that they knew it was purposeful violence all along.
CNN ‘Breaking’ ‘News’.
Ya John Lewis -There is so much more dignity in an act of “Terrorism” than in your every day garden variety murder.
Rose, if it is correct that Sun TV News will be using only CNN as a source for foreign news that is not good news for an expectation on our part of Sun TV being an alternative to CBC or CTV.
They went to Journalism “school” to become “journalists”.
Speedy, CNN, Breaking Wind.
“CNN has become a disgrace.”
Agreed. CNN lost my viewership long ago.
Re: Sun News
I’ve critisized News Talk Radio 650 for the same issue. I never believe anything CNN tells me. I’m more want to watch FOXnews and MSNBC for balance. CNN can go fcuk themselves.
Near Ottawa, Justin Trudeau nods approvingly at the use of ‘quotes’, then goes back to staring in the mirror.
CNN decides what’s “terroristic”
and I get confused
because I was told by the left
the joos run the new.
News is slowly coming out that it might have been an Asian worker that committed the murders and not a Palestinian.
Quds Net news agency on Monday quoted a Palestinian family from Awarta village next to the settlement as saying that Mr. Fogel refused to pay 10,000 shekels in wages which he owed an Asian worker he hired. The worker threatened to kill the settler and his family.
“religion” of “peace”
The BBC did the same thing with the story.
Great. A jew hating asian muslim. Oy, what next?
EyesWideShut @12:46 – that’s the thing, isn’t it? Where’s this famous Zionist Media Conspiracy when you need it?
Isn’t ‘CNN’ itself a ‘third party’?-Considering their ratings and all?!
Of course we could make a game of this:
Liberal “leader” Ignatieff
“Sustainable” energy
“New” Democratic Party
“activists”
“progressives”
well you get the idea
Shawn
News is slowly coming out that it might have been an Asian worker that committed the murders and not a Palestinian.
Take your taqiyya, with yourself, up a Camels bum.
The phooey clan Palestinian where handing out Candy in Joy of the killing of those Children. Celebrating murder on the Gaza Psycho Ranch.
You not only dishonor this family with slurs, you imply these folks deserved to have been killed including a 3 year old girl with 2 other children, one a baby.
You serve your Master well, Your post stinks of sulfur.
Her Family Slaughtered by Muslim Jew-Haters, Anguished Orphaned Jewish Child in Israel Fears Obama’s America
http://tinyurl.com/4zhza72 Via Atlas Shrugged
While I am late I cannot allow the suggestion that it was not an Arab who committed these horrible murders. The news in Israel is very clear on that, so it was not an Asian worker.