Friday, November 15, 2013

To really understand about terrorism's victims, can't beat the NY Times

...Once again, for the record: the victim of yesterday's cold-blooded murder of a sleeping teenage boy is Eden Attias. Here, ...(below), for the benefit of the New York Times' readers who will not find his portrait in the pages of their daily guide to the world, is how Eden looked before the jihadist hate-machine of the Palestinian Authority picked him out for liquidation.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
14 November '13..

The editors at the New York Times remind us again today of where to focus our attention and sympathies when the subject is the savagery that terrorists do.

An Israeli teenager, freshly recruited into the military to do his national service, is dozing on an intercity bus in the early morning hours when without warning a knife plunges into his upper chest and neck, leaving him critically injured. Despite the best available medical attention, he dies of his horrendous wounds a short while later.

At the world's newspaper of record, the story is composed with input from the reporter, the news editors and the people who make the decisions about whether to add a photograph, and if so, of what. The decision is made, the story is published, and the visual - and therefore emotional - focus in this tragedy of two worlds colliding is determined to be... the mother of the killer.

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