Zombie Hits It Big
Friday, 25. August 2006, 06:59:47
He got props on Brit Hume on Fox for this article (video here). I think I posted about this a month ago. Both Dan Riehl and Zombie were on the magic ambulance a long time ago.
Anyone surprised that guys in pajamas find this stuff, but the hierarchy of fact checkers and editors in the media can't see it? It says something about the attitude in news rooms that no one bothers to investigate obvious propaganda.
Update: Heh!
Update: The Jawas hit it big too...this is linked EVERYWHERE.
Update: the German media did fact check claims of Israeli chemical weapons use, and conclusively debunked the reports. Check it out.
Update: Confederate Yankee responds to a particularly lame attack on bloggers. Editor & Publisher ignores the fact that bloogers were right about the propaganda from Lebanon in order to smear blogs.
Anyone surprised that guys in pajamas find this stuff, but the hierarchy of fact checkers and editors in the media can't see it? It says something about the attitude in news rooms that no one bothers to investigate obvious propaganda.
Update: Heh!
The anti-Israel group Amnesty International has issued a report accusing the Jewish state of "war crimes." Blogger David Bernstein does a good job taking apart the report, noting, for example, that Amnesty International faults Israel for hitting military targets, such as bridges, roads, seaports and Beirut's international airport.
This news report offers another important counterbalance:During the four week war Hezbollah fired 3,900 rockets at Israeli towns and cities with the aim of inflicting maximum civilian casualties.
The Israeli government says that 44 Israeli civilians were killed in the bombardments and 1,400 wounded.
AI has not issued a report accusing Hezbollah of war crimes.
The New York Times account, by contrast, quotes an Israeli official as rejecting the Amnesty International allegations, but it makes no mention of Hezbollah's unquestioned war crimes. In this sense, at least, the Times is more anti-Israel than the organization that produced the other news report--which, by the way, is al-Jazeera.
Update: The Jawas hit it big too...this is linked EVERYWHERE.
Update: the German media did fact check claims of Israeli chemical weapons use, and conclusively debunked the reports. Check it out.
Update: Confederate Yankee responds to a particularly lame attack on bloggers. Editor & Publisher ignores the fact that bloogers were right about the propaganda from Lebanon in order to smear blogs.
