CNN and AP Cited for Bad Headlines
HonestReporting.com reports on what it
considers this past week's worst offenses in
news-distortion. The first was a CNN headline
on Tuesday, after a Palestinian terrorist killed two
and wounded many more when he fired wildly at
Jerusalem passersby. The CNN homepage
headline describing the event was "ISRAEL
SHOOTING WOUNDS DOZENS" - with the
implication that it was an Israeli who was
responsible for the attack.
Associated Press, too, was cited by
HonestReporting.com for its headline that same
day equating the above terrorist shooting (before
it was known that two had been killed) and an
Israeli discovery of a Shechem bomb factory and
killing of four of the Hamas terrorist factory
operators: "ISRAEL KILLS 4, PALESTINIAN
WOUNDS 8." The apparent message is that the
attack on four terrorist bombers is parallel to the
shooting of elderly women standing at a bus stop.
The day before, AP delivered another botched
headline when reporting on Israel's takeover of
the city of Tul Karem: "ISRAEL TAKES OVER
ENTIRE WEST BANK."
CNN can be emailed at
Brad.Turell@turner.com,
Walter.Isaacson@turner.com, and
allfeedback@cnn.com, while AP can be reached
at feedback@ap.org.
And more from Honestreporting.com: In light
of the Lebanese accusations that Israel was
behind yesterday's car-bombing of controversial
Phalangist leader Elais Hobeika, the organization
quotes Hobeika's own bodyguard, Robert
Maroun Hatem. In his book "From Israel to
Damascus," Hatem revealed that Hobeika was a
Syrian double-agent, and that the Phalangists'
massacre of 900 Arabs in Sabra and Shatila was
aimed at discrediting Israel and Ariel Sharon.
Hatem wrote,
"I can state under oath that General Sharon
would never have lit up the area the way he did
had he planned for any butchery... Reflecting
back on the events of my life, all the facts led me
to believe that Hobeika was the man, who in
1982, provoked the Sabra and Shatilla
massacres."
ARUTZ SHEVA, website, week of 25, January, 2002,
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