Friday, August 04, 2006

A fine example of the New York Times's way of using omission to create propaganda. In an article entitled Hezbollah Leader Says Attacks Are Justified they state
"The Islamic resistance will hit Tel Aviv, and it is capable of doing that with God’s help," Sheik Nasrallah said in the speech, broadcast on the group’s television network, al Manar.


In most other reports, including this one from Haaretz (Israel):
"If you bomb our capital Beirut, we will bomb the capital of your usurping entity... We will bomb Tel Aviv," Nasrallah said.


So the a reader of the NYT would be unaware that the threat to bomb Tel Aviv was in response to an attack by Israel.

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