ORWELL 1984
WMDMarch 24, 2011, 5:52 pm
When it comes to coverage of Israel, the West’s “mainstream” media has fulfilled the horrors of propaganda predicted by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The prescient terms defined by Orwell to describe the manipulation of public opinion through propaganda — newspeak, doublethink, and doublespeak — are being used to twist ultra-violent, hateful, evil Palestinian terrorist acts into acts of resistance to “oppression” or acts committed against inanimate objects (not humans). Thanks to HonestReporting, we have the evidence:
Nothing captures the media’s attention like a bomb in the heart of Jerusalem. At this time, one person was killed and over 30 wounded as a bomb detonated next to a busy bus stop near the city’s central bus station and international conference center. …
Incredibly, Reuters included the following in its report:
Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian strike. It was the first time Jerusalem had been hit by such a bomb since 2004.
We’ve long criticized Reuters for its refusal to call terror by its name.
Now, Reuters appears to be attributing the term “terrorism” as something solely in the minds of Israelis. …
… and …
… The initial headline of a story says a lot about the thought process of a news editor. While most other news organizations covered a bomb blast in Jerusalem by focusing on the number of casualties as well as the location, the BBC went with this:
Deadly bombing targets Jerusalem bus stopAccording to the BBC, it wasn’t Israelis, Jews, innocent Jerusalem residents or anyone else that a terrorist usually targets. No — it was a bus stop, an inanimate object fixed on the sidewalk. …
We don’t even need a super-nanny-state as in Orwell’s novels to destroy the precision of our thinking and language, our “media” is doing it by itself.
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