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Some of us want the truth,and Ayman was filling that role.IMHO.
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I worked for NBC News for 3 years back in the late 90’s. It was made perfectly clear to all employed at any level in the network that there was to be nothing broadcast, ever, in any format that wasn’t 100% pro-Israel-state…anything else would be buried in the budget meeting, and put your employment at risk. Don’t know if it’s still that way, but this certainly smells of it.
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This is why most times you just can not accept what’s reported in the news. NBC has shown how bias the media can be when they removed the journalist because he spoke out against Israel - not spoke out against but rather reported what actually happened.
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It is that way for every news outlet!!!
I am not wearing blinders so I can clearly see how bias the media is when it comes to reporting on Israel.
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A friend of mine, whom I’ve known for 40 years, is an NBC News producer, and she says that they are instructed to be factual, as objective as possible, and politically neutral in all straight news reporting.
She’s worked there for 25 years, and she says it’s never been different.
I believe her, because I know her—and her father was a well-respected newspaper editor, who taught her well.
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You cannot offer any empirical evidence to back up your assertions.
And the past tense of “bias” is “biased.”
If you’re going to continue to make sweeping allegations absent any actual proof, the least you can do is use proper grammar and syntax.
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Hopefully, he has learned to not Twatter every thought.
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BTW,for what it is worth the one Israeli soldier who was killed they had his name and rank given on the news,interesting I thought.
I know, right?
Was there a memo or was it covered in orientation?
Blah de blah de blah blah blah. That statement is a steaming load of semantically null PR bullshit. It’s A=1, B=2 code talk for “the unknown person who made this decision was overridden by higher authority when the shitstorm started, but he not otherwise going to be held accountable.” They might as well had someone make a big neon sign that says “COVER-UP!” as put this steaming pile of smileyface mendacity out for public consumption.
We need to know what happened here. This is serious. It bears directly on the credibility of the organization, every bit as much as the epic failures at CBS that led to the Lara Logan debacle.
Big Journalism all too often seems to think that stuff that happens behind closed doors within their organizations that bears directly on the trustworthiness of is exempt from coverage. And the incentives for other Big Journalism outlets to not pursue the story are obvious.
My working hypothesis would be that some executive–possibly one not even in the news division, is, in fact, deep into the AIPAC/Likudnik worldview and figured he could yank this guy without anyone noticing and then when the blowback came (and I expect a lot of it came from within, backed by threats to go public), they backed down. But that’s just a hypothesis. We need to know.
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I think it was in the opening remarks to one of those ceremonies that Those People do. You know, the one involving the blood of a Gentile baby.
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What? No personal apology from Phil Griffin?
Oh, I forgot – those are reserved for kissing right wing ass in the wake of a flash of honesty.
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Last week Max Blumenthal said Netanyahu purposely provoked this military escalation. Now, The Week magazine which normally has a definite conservative tilt, published a story saying the same thing. Color me pleasantly surprised.
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They got caught. They’ll have to be more covert from now on. I’m just glad that people have caught on to the idea of corporate “news” as Israeli propaganda. Things had to get that obvious before they did though.
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I really like the Israeli people. I really can’t stand the Israeli government.
I’m especially tired of the power they seem to have in dictating, not only their own regional policy, but US Middle East policy. They literally decide what our policy is, and our politicians say, “Yes, Boss” and do as told.
Its really disgusting.
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Is it at all possible that he was not on the air because he needed a break after what he witnessed? I understand professionalism, but he was there when they were killed. Maybe he needed a bit of time to deal with that.
Well, it all comes down to the definition of bias, then. Many would consider any violation of the built-in pro-Israeli bias to be bias.
You demand empirical evidence? Watch the reporting for yourself. Show me a report that is not biased. I haven’t seen one.
First off, it’s all about the Malaysian plane, then, time permitting, the networks touch on Gaza, rarely if ever describing the imbalance of death and destruction and the civilian casualties meted out by the invaders. I’ve not seen “experts” guesting on these news reports and panel discussions other than Israeli representatives.
And that’s giving Diane Sawyer the benefit of the doubt. A mistake, to be sure, but to me a mistake made because of her biases. She just assumed what she was watching were Israelis.
This reporter is a case in point. Factually tweeting he kicked a ball around with victims of a subsequent air strike doesn’t sound like bias to me, but the actions of the network in its wake certainly does.
The reality is, in 21st century America, Muslims have become the nation’s Goldstein. Yes, Hamas is a civilian-killing terrorist organization and must stop launching rockets. However, we need some plain reporting on the civilian-killing terroristic response from the Israeli government, and we will never hear it couched in those terms.
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Prove it.