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More Reuters Bias
30 August 2006You think Reuters would have learned a lesson by now - cut the bias and tell the news as it is. Well, the following is really subtle, but it shows the political leanings of the powers that be at Reuters and their underlings. The first is a picture of of a woman smoking a cigarette - pretty tame stuff here, right? Other than the woman wearing a Muslim headscarf, there is nothing else identifying the location of the picture. However, Reuters finds a way to take a poke at Israel.
“A Lebanese woman smokes a cigarette as she looks at the rubble of buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, which were repeatedly attacked by Israeli forces in the 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006. A ceasefire has been in effect since Aug. 14, 2006.” (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Rubble of buildings? We don’t see them in the picture? If it’s not in the picture, why is it even being described? How do we know she wasn’t looking at a poster of Hassan Nasrallah, that’s littering the landscape of southern Beirut now? How do we know she wasn’t at an outdoor cafe in Paris? Or having a coffee in London? The point is that the picture is merely an opportunity for Reuters to demean Israel.
If the above doesn’t convince you about a vendetta against Israel and Jews, we hope this will. Below, a picture of Orthodox Jewish men at the Kotel (Western Wall). Pretty innocent stuff, right? That is, until you read the caption.
“Ultra Orthodox Jews pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday called Israel’s air and sea blockade of Lebanon a ‘humiliation,’ while Israel said it won’t end the embargo until forces on Lebanon’s borders can prevent Hezbollah guerrillas from importing new weapons.” (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Now, what do Orthodox men praying at the Western Wall have to do with Kofi Annan and his biased accusations against Israel, and the Israel government’s response? These guys are going about their daily routine praying!
Don’t get us wrong - we think it’s great to have pictures of people going about their regular day-to-day duties in the Middle East. But the question is, why is Reuters so intent on bringing up the war, even when the pictures are totally disconnected from the war? By focusing on the conflict, Reuters is actually contributing to the conflict. God forbid we should see people doing normal activities in the Middle East!
Tags:Arab/Muslim World , Commentary , kofi annan , media bias , reuters
November 5th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
I have heard that while ago there was a story about Reuters bias that came out of Reuters. Its essence was that they couldn’t report the facts of Palestinian terror because reporters would have been killed by the Arabs at worst or denied further access at best. This was not a problem for most Reuters reporters because many were people who supported the Arab cause in the first place.
I’ve been trying to find this article. Can you help me?