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 Did the AP Erase a Video of a War Crime?Posted on Mar 20, 2006Truthdig says: The Associated Press erased a video of an unprovoked Israeli soldier shooting Palestinian children in 2004--according to a journalist conducting a study of the AP’s practices in the region.
CounterPunch: In the midst of journalism’s “Sunshine Week"--during which the Associated Press and other news organizations are valiantly proclaiming the public’s “right to know"--AP insists on conducting its own activities in the dark, and refuses to answer even the simplest questions about its system of international news reporting. Most of all, it refuses to explain why it erased footage of an Israeli soldier intentionally shooting a Palestinian boy. AP, according to its website, is the world’s oldest and largest news organization. It is the behemoth of news reporting, providing what its editors determine is the news to a billion people each day. Through its feeds to thousands of newspapers, radio and television stations, AP is a major determinant in what Americans read, hear and see--and what they don’t. What they don’t is profoundly important. I investigated one such omission when I was in the Palestinian Territories last year working on a documentary with my colleague (and daughter), who was filming our interviews. SHARE THIS TRUTHDIG ARTICLE:
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By Sean Sindler, March 26, 2006 at 10:49 am #
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The “example of the egregious warp in acceptable journalism” can be attributed to this article’s author, not the AP. The anonymous AP camera man that claims to have videotaped the incident may simply be a figment of the agenda driven ex-journalist’s imagination. This ‘story’ sounds more like a tall-tale.
Report thisBy Hilding Lindquist, March 20, 2006 at 11:25 am #
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This example of the egregious warp in acceptable journalism by the AP is not just appalling, it is clearly aiding and abetting a criminal act.
Our generals are afraid to tell the truth lest it hurt their careers. Our politicians are afraid to offend anyone with significant campaign contributions. Our business leaders cook the books to look good and earn fraudulent bonuses. And our journalists deliberately mislead us in order to preserve access to power.
There is such a moral decay at the top of so many areas of endeavor in our nation that we have to question that whole layer everywhere. They have exchanged our birthright for their porridge.
We are being ill-served by these scrawny minds working to preserve the power and privilege of the ruling elite and to then be rewarded with some of the scraps from the tables of the rich and powerful.
It’s time we--the people--got crackin’! 2006 is the year of the people. Let’s take our nation back!
We are the most powerful person-type the world has ever known: free citizens who exercise our inalienable rights. When we become aroused, the cowards in power--hiding behind their lies and deceptions--tremble as they hear the rumble of our voices demanding to be heard.
“It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
- Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address
“If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
Samuel Adams
“And for the support of this Declaration [of Independence], with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration
of the thirteen united States of America
Once more to the barricades, citizens. For us the barricade is the ballot box ... where we can stop those who do not cherish, respect, and protect our rights and values as free citizens ... in their tracks.
Cheers for our side!
Report thisBy Martin, March 20, 2006 at 10:11 am #
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This story does not surprise me. This is only a little facet of how it is done.
Report thisBut What is done?
The USA is hypnotized to support Israel in its policy goals. Those goals are often totally contrary to US interests.
Why would we, the melting pot of the world want to support a country that uses military means to stay racially pure? Israel wants to preserve its ‘Jewishness’ and builds an apartheid regime with the grossest human rights violations. This war started 4,500 years ago when Abraham heard voices in his head and settled in Palastine or Philistine as it was known by its inhabitants. What’s the chance that this conflict will be solved in our lifetime? Why are we taking sides?
US tax payers pay for this. Israel is pulling the woolen sock over the American head. This news story is only one facet. If the American public wakes up and finds out that they’ve been had, they would stop finance this racist folly.
Imagine we would support the Whites in South Africa, because they fear that the Blacks want to have proportional representation and that would threaten the ‘Whiteness’ of South Africa? Ooops, we did.
Once we stopped to support the Aprtheid regime, it fell soon after. And surprise: No mass slaughter of whites happened. The real people had a arrange and and all they want is to live in peace. And those who couldn’t, moved on. And a very few criminals were prosecuted and soon forgiven. Truth and reconciliation. Sounds like Israel could use a healthy dose of that.