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MEDIA BIAS
TO:  BAR-ILAN, EYE ON MEDIA, JLEM POST; CC: BEDEIN ISRAEL RESOURCE
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Haon, 15170; 06-757572; FAX: 06-757511
REF:   CNN Headline News 11/24/94
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THE BATTLE FOR NETZARIM:  CNN LEADS THE CHARGE

Anchor:  Riz Khan  Walking Head (TV Reporter):  Paul Workman

Theme is:  Netzarim is not worth defending; Israel should abandonit.  Does not consider question of precedent of abandonningsettlements.  Does not try to argue that the existence of Netzarimoppresses Palestinians.

Brief quote from father of solider killed at Netzarim, who says,"he died for nothing."  [Implication is: to defend that settlementwas nothing.  Actual meaning seems to have been:  he died becausethe IDF failed, for political reasons, to take adequate securityprecautions.]

Point is stressed (ie, made at least twice, maybe 3 times, in theclip) that Netzarim consists only of 31 families, in caravans. Interviewer asks one young married woman:  "do you feel anyguilt?".   

My guess is that if one saw the original footage of these 2interviews, one could make a case that the editting wastendentious.

As CNN did on the previous day, it makes the point that thedemonstrators "chased away" the soldiers.  Ie, the implicationstands that the soldiers behaved with cowardice.

The facts that there were 2000 demonstrators, that a barrage of2000 rocks is apt to be hazardous to one's health that the PA wassupposedly to take over defense of the outpost in such cases, andthat the alternative to retreat would have been to inflict a largenumber of casualities on the demonstrators, -- are not made.
