‘Change America supports’
| AN OUTSIDERS VIEW |
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| Ken Fuller |
Western reporting of events in Syria and Libya continues to be lopsided. Sometimes, the most lurid rumors and allegations are reported as fact, and while the many cell-phone recordings used are often accompanied by the rider that “these images cannot be confirmed,” the latter will be instantly forgotten by most media consumers.
Some of the reporting has been nothing short of outrageous Several weeks ago, we had the BBC’s Orla Guerin acting as a cheerleader for foreign intervention as she reported from a Misrata hospital that the patients were calling for Nato airstrikes. The only demand for such action evident in that report, however, was the one from Orla Guerin. We have yet to hear calls for the prosecution of the war criminals who murdered Colonel Gadaffi’s children in one of those airstrikes..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110621com5.html
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