;.cNewsweek 5/13
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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David bar-Ilan, Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-757572; FAX:  972-6-757554
DATE:  
RE:    
REF:   Newsweek 13 May (Lara Marlowe)
       REF:  The White Phosophorus ancillary warhead was noted JP
             and also English radio news; both with no followup.
CC:
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SUMMARY:                                     
Who writes her stuff?  That style of Peoples' Realism went outwith the Scottsboro Boys.
	This is anchoperson journalism.  Someone drives her to thescene, and she signs her by-line to whatever story they give her.

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	Eg: "They passed the bombed-out water reservoir... andthey knew there would be no water.   They saw the electricitypylons downed by Israeli helicopters, and they knew therewould be no water..."
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How about: "They saw the white-phosophorous warhead onthe Katuysha and they knew there would be no need forburn ointment in Kiryat Shemona"
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Concluding paragraph states that:  
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"An amatuer videotape of the bombardment proved that anIsraeli reconnaissance drone, which should have shown theIsraelis exactliy what they were firing at, was presentduring the shelling."
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COMMENT:
Prior to newstand time (though presumably after presstime) the IDF argued plausibly that the drone that hadnot gone to the scene until after the shelling; andstated plausibly that it had not been focussed at the UNheadquarters.  
	So "should" is here it used with duplicitiousambiguity; the reader takes it to mean 'one canreasonably suppose that it would have shown'; but thewriter can claim that it was intended only to mean 'toprevent that tragedy, it should have shown'.
	The term "proved" is used without justification:  aproof would require confirmation of time as well asplace; and also confirmation of what the drone wasphotographing prior to and during the shelling.

