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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4682566.stm
I can't even believe the BBC anymore. This was probably some crazed kid, but since it happened in Israel the "police" (no word on which police or what their political motivations are) say that "the attack was politically motivated".
bullshit.
I'm not saying it definately wasn't, but there is no proof other than some people who think he looked Arab to back up the police statement.
I'm not gonna read anymore of the news stories. There is a slant on everything.
New York Times is decidedly liberal and everything is slanted, Fox News is decidedly right wing and all of those stories are worded in a right wing way. Maybe I'm not really interested in the facts but actually interested in how the news source reports the story. To see how worked up I can get about words.
I don't think I can cut myself off from the news but I can definately be a lot more armoured going into a news story. I just need to remember that there aren't anymore "factual" news sources. Everyone has a motivation for writing the story.
I really want to have access to the associated press reel, the one that types out facts:
"Knife attack on Israeli minibus. One woman killed. Others wounded. Israeli police say the attacker is Palestinian. No facts to back up that statement."
The end. None of this "one random bystander who was watching the arrest from across the street said he looked Arab."
I can't even believe the BBC anymore. This was probably some crazed kid, but since it happened in Israel the "police" (no word on which police or what their political motivations are) say that "the attack was politically motivated".
bullshit.
I'm not saying it definately wasn't, but there is no proof other than some people who think he looked Arab to back up the police statement.
I'm not gonna read anymore of the news stories. There is a slant on everything.
New York Times is decidedly liberal and everything is slanted, Fox News is decidedly right wing and all of those stories are worded in a right wing way. Maybe I'm not really interested in the facts but actually interested in how the news source reports the story. To see how worked up I can get about words.
I don't think I can cut myself off from the news but I can definately be a lot more armoured going into a news story. I just need to remember that there aren't anymore "factual" news sources. Everyone has a motivation for writing the story.
I really want to have access to the associated press reel, the one that types out facts:
"Knife attack on Israeli minibus. One woman killed. Others wounded. Israeli police say the attacker is Palestinian. No facts to back up that statement."
The end. None of this "one random bystander who was watching the arrest from across the street said he looked Arab."