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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:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  5/29/96
RE:    
REF:   Newsweek 5/27/96 (Joe Klein, "Beautiful Bibi")
CC:    Newsweek; att: Joe Klein
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SUMMARY:  Classic Bibi-bashing, with pretty square techniques.

DETAILS:  Joe Klein is a Senior Editor; no reporter listed.

Title: "Beautiful Bibi"  [ `Bibi Jofe' would read better.]
Half-page photo:  Bibi in dark shades, looking ugly & maybe mean.
Photo caption:  A sound-bite cowboy who is handsome, hot-tempered,and relatively inexperienced. .         

SELECTED EPITHETS FROM TEXT:
	"bumptious and telegenic" / "MisterBibiNetanyahu" / "facile" 
    /"hot-tempered" / "relatively inexperienced" 

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SELECTED EPITHETS WITH CRITICAL COMMENTS:

	"bumptious and telegenic"
		/ You were thinking maybe Robert Redford? 

	"hot-tempered"  
		/ Huh?  Compared to Peres' bitchiness under pressure? 

	"young" (46) / Nu, and JFK ?            
	"he did  not work his way up through the party ranks"
		/ This is a virtue?  To have never worked for a living?

"nor  lead the the nation in battle"  / and Rabin did what in '48?
	"a sound bite cowboy"
/ Yup; Reagan too; difference is Netanyahu writes his own lines. 

	"an inappropriate successor to sober stern Yitzhak Rabin"
        / Rabin as Abe Lincoln.  Dumb is  in.  

   "'He comes across very cold'" 
       / Incredibly, Bush used that attack effectively on Dukakis.
         You wanted warm & fuzzy, you got Clinton. 

   "flagrant distrust of the Arabs"
      / Echos of `flagrante delectio'.  You mean maybe 'blatant'?
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"his unwillingness to commit even to shaking [Poopoohead]'s hand."   / They take that pretty serious in the USA:
    Refusing to shake a man's hand. 
They also say in the USA:A man with a beard got something to hide. 
SELECTED EPITHETS ON AUTOMATIC FIRE:
	"They remain the obsessed, pessimisitc, ethnic warriors --the Massada Party -- at a moment when the global economy beckons"
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COMMENT:  Not unto us  Great Unwashed it don't beckon.
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SELECTED PHANTOM TAXI-DRIVERS:
	"He is widely resented"
	"He is assumed insubstantial, a sound-bit cowboy" 
	"Even Netanyahu's Likud allies lament ..."

                   
SELECTED IRONICALLY QUOTABLE UNDERSTAMENT:
	"Shimon Peres, 73, has been around for a long time and neverquite won the confidence of the Israeli public."

MISLEADING OXYMORONIC ANALOGY:
	"Last week there was a mild terrorist incident [my emphasison Newsweek's oxymoron] of a differnet sort;  a Labor volunteerhanging campaing posters was shot in the leg by a Likudnik."
	COMMENT:   Both were reportedly hired petty criminals, one nomore a 'volunteer' than the other.  And whatever it was, eg a setup of some sort, it was not a 'terrorist incident'.
                        
MISLEADING OXYMORONIC ANALOGY WITH PHANTOM TAXI-DRIVER 

"But it has also pushed Netanyahu and Likiud in a dierction thatbears an uncomfortable if superficial resemblance 
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[my emphasis - or maybe 'worrisome but trivial'  or`insignificant but exploitable'] 
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to the right-wing populism of Pat Buchanan (and, some would argue 
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[viz:  the writer and his dog, to name just two]    
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Gennady Zyuganov's Russian communists)

EYEWITNESS REPORTING OF UNIDENTIFIED PROVENANCE:

"A father carrying his daughter in his arms was sent sprawling; anherb seller was crushed into his stall."
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COMMENT:  The writer is a Senior Editor, apparently in NYC;there is no reporter listed for this article; there is noplace-line given for the article; so who witnessed that.  Forstarters, there maybe ain't that many herb-sellers' stalls inthe Hatikva neighborhood of T.A.; try Harvard Square.  








