Ali has another interesting article, which points out the incredible bias in the U.S. media:
“Many US media reports were quick to declare that two suicide bombings in Israel on September 18 and 19, in which eight Israelis were killed, had brought an end to a period of “calm” simply because there had been no similar attacks for six weeks and few Israelis had been victims of Palestinian violence.”
“In fact, the bombings came at the end of a particularly bloody period in which dozens of Palestinians, most of them unarmed civilians, and a large number of them children, had been killed and injured by Israeli occupation forces. In effect, the definition of “calm” or a “lull in violence” inherent in these reports is ‘only Palestinians are being killed.’”
Speaking of which, here is an important action item from Democrats.com. While you’re on the horn with the media also discuss their bias against Palestinians:
Democrats.com Action Alert: Al Gore’s Historic Anti-War Speech is CENSORED
On Monday, September 23 2002, Al Gore gave a major speech on Iraq at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
Al Gore called the war on Iraq a distraction from the war on terrorism, warned against unilateral action and Bush’s new Doctrine of Global Domination (a.k.a. preemptive strike policy), and addressed the timing questions of Bush’s war in Iraq.
How did the networks cover Gore’s historic speech?
FOX News – No Coverage
CNN – Broadcast the first few minutes – then went back to Talk Back Live.
MSNBC – Broadcast a portion of the speech – then Buchanan and Press talked over the rest of it.
These are the same networks that routinely interrupt programming with “breaking news” of press conferences concerning kidnappings, child abuse, and baseball riots. And yet a major anti-war speech by the WINNER of the 2000 election does not warrant coverage in their opinion. But these same networks carry just about every pro-war speech by Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney.
We must demand equal time from the media. We CANNOT let them conduct the hatchet job they did during campaign 2000.
We demand that Gore’s speech be aired in prime time – and we demand full coverage for the anti-war movement, which represents the MAJORITY of Americans.
1. Call CNN at 404-827-1500
2. Call Fox News at (212) 301-3000
3. Call MSNBC at (201) 583-5000
4. Send this alert to every website you know
5. Send this alert to everyone in your mailing list
6. Contact your local paper’s Editor
7. Go to FAIR’s media contact list for more numbers: http://www.fair.org/media-contact-list.html
8. Contact the media watchers: reliablesources@cnn.com,newswatch@foxnews.com,nachman@msnbc.com
9. Support our tireless efforts for truth, justice, and the American way with as generous a contribution as you can afford: http://democrats.com/donate
The media stole the Presidency from Al Gore in 2000 – it’s time to get justice for Al Gore.
Well, actually I think its more important to get justice for the Palestinians, but Gore does deserve some credit for spitting in the winds of war.