CAMERA/Snapshots
08 December '11
http://blog.camera.org/archives/2011/12/atlantic_year_in_photos_distor_1.html
The Atlantic's 2011: Year in Photos includes the following photo and caption:
Palestinian protesters infiltrate the Israel-Syria border on May 15, 2011, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, Israel. Reportedly at least 12 were killed and several injured when IDF soldiers open fired on protesters attempting to cross the Syria-Israel border adjacent to Majdal Shams in Northern Israel. (Jalaa Marey/JINI/Getty Images)
Four infiltrators, not 12, were killed after crossing the fence dividing Syrian and Israel. See, for example, the New York Times and Al Jazeera. The Atlantic's error is apparently the result of sloppy editing in an effort to shorten the original caption from Getty Images, which more accurately stated:
Syrian protesters climb the border fence between Syria and Israel during a demonstration marking "nakba" near the northern Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights May 15, 2011. Israeli troops shot at Palestinian protesters on its frontiers with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday, killing nine who were marking what they term "the catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.
Unfortunately, in 2011, there's no need to falsely inflate fatalities among Syrian protesters. In total, more than 4,000 were reportedly killed. Not by Israel, but by Assad's own forces. While the Atlantic chose to include a photo representing the killing of four Syrian protesters at the hands of Israeli forces, it does not include a single image representing the many thousands of Syrian civilians killed by their own repressive regime.
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ReplyDelete"Unfortunately, in 2011, there's no need to
falsely inflate fatalities among Syrian protesters. In total, more than 4,000 were reportedly killed. Not by Israel, but by Assad's own forces. While the Atlantic chose to include a photo representing the killing of four Syrian protesters at the hands of Israeli forces, it does include a single image representing the many thousands of Syrian civilians killed by their own repressive regime."
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Equally unfortunately, it appears the key operative word "NOT" was inadvertantly left out in above CAMERA statement.
Perhaps should have read:
"It does NOT include a single image......."
Since CAMERA goes to great efforts to correct distorted reporting in the news, it is crucial their proofreaders are more careful before they publish such important exposes lest an important point is lost on the public.
TY David for having noticed this omission. Its now been corrected on CAMERA's site and here.
ReplyDeleteIt is always remarkable that those who unfailingly report news from the Mideast which portrays Israel in an unfavorable light, seem more often than not to reflexively ignore those acts which are far more deplorable than an attempt at defending one's national borders from invasion by marauding hordes incited with the sole purpose of doing harm.
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