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Date Posted: 13:29:00 07/19/05 Tue
Author: Bob Aronoff
Subject: LA Times Slants the News

On June 16, 2005, (Sat, page A3, upper right), the Times dutifully reports, "Israel Kills 6 in Strikes on Hamas".

After reading the article, I would have thought a more descriptive caption would have been: Palestinians Break Truce with a subheading Kill and Injure Israelis in Gaza Strip. A further subheadline seeing what was written might have reported Israelis Respond and Kill 6 Hamas Militants (personally, I'd use the word "terrorists" and not militants).

If not slanting the news, it is news bias. Obviously the Israelis wouldn't have responded if not for being attacked.
Looking at the Times' caption and subheading, the reader is misled. Why? You'll have to ask the person who composes and select this approach to reporting.

Deeper in the article (4th paragraph, last sentence), the Times writer states "... [there has been] a barrage of rockets in the last few days [by Palestinians on Israel]. Yet, your headline says "Israelis Kills 6 in Strikes on Hamas". Based on the content of your own article, the headline leading into this article is terribly misleading on this score alone. Later on in the article the writer reports "... 22 rockets and 44 mortar rounds [were fired by Palestinians on Thursday] ... destroyed cars and homes, and set a kindergarten ablaze." Without compunction the Times headlined this article as, "Israel Kills 6 in Strikes on Hamas". Yes, I'd say that your headline patently slants this new report of your own reporter.

What is also missing is internal strife between Palestinians trying to stop these attacks on Israel during the so-called truce and those militants (terrorists) who want to lob these rockets and mortars to break the "peace". Yet, your headline comes across as decidedly showing the aggressors as, "Israelis Kill 6 in Strikes on Hamas".

Good reporting from the field, poor handling of the reports by the LA Times staff, is the best we can say.

Certainly leads to credence that those who say the media is anti-Israel. I don't believe it but from what I read in the LA Times, it is clear to me I am wrong. This isn't one article, it is only the latest in a series which confuses and beclouds what is happening on the ground in the Middle East regardless of who the combatants are. The Times is sending a message that America's friends are in fact America's enemies of peace, truce-breakers, if you will.

If that's the way the LA Times wants to intentionally slant the news, so be it. It's a free country, as they say. But I can point out the objectively of a "free media" isn't objective as seen in the LA Times; the Times convicts itself by its own hand.

Doggonit if I don't see a pattern here. The way the Times handles assaults on public safety officers (police) as a police-provoked problem, the reporting of criminals attacking society as if the criminals are the victims and not the architects of their activities, championing non-citizens rights over citizen's rights is another distortion of reality are not accidents; they are created by design by the Times. They are all attempts to intentionally slant the news. This isn't slanting the news for or against Israel or Palestinians, police, criminals, or non-citizens. It is plain intentionally slanting the news by the responsible people at the Times.

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