Media Disinformation

I just discovered this newsgroup, so this is my first post. Maybe the
data has been mentioned here already.

I have been seeing this "doctor" running off at the mouth from a hospital
in Gaza for several nights, then read the below revelation.

This is a quote from a Ha'aretz web page of 1/8/09
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Meanwhile, non-official observers of the coverage argue the international
media has not done enough to stay objective in the conflict.

For example, the Israeli watchdog group NGO Monitor has noted that one of
the foreign media's favorite Gaza-based interviewees, Norwegian physician
Mads Gilbert, is a man with an extremist political past. Gilbert has been
quoted widely, including in a Times of London article where he told
friends by SMS, "We are wading in death, blood and amputees. Many
children. A pregnant woman. I have never experienced anything so
terrible." Gilbert also used a BBC interview from Gaza's Shifa Hospital
to cite casualty statistics that he said proved the IDF was deliberately
targeting civilians. According to NGO Monitor, however, Gilbert's past is
indicative of "ideological extremism," such as when he expressed support
for the September 11 attacks on the United States in a 2001 interview in
Norway's Dagbladet newspaper. In the interview, he argued that "the
oppressed also have a moral right to attack the USA with any weapon they
can come up with," adding specifically that he supported the terror
attack "within the context which I have mentioned." Gilbert was also a
candidate for local government in 2007 for the Norwegian Red Party, an
outgrowth of the radical Norwegian Workers' Communist Party.

An Israeli government official also told the Post that "there is no way
[Gilbert] could have personal access to the kind of statistics he cited.
He got them from the Gaza Health Ministry, which is controlled by Hamas.
That raises the question: To what extent is he a willing or unwilling
mouthpiece for Hamas?" The official protested that media outlets were
routinely "using European aid workers as ostensibly objective witnesses.
It smells like a setup when they talk about all the casualties being
civilian."

Another example is the France 2 television broadcast of a false report
showing dead toddlers allegedly killed in the Gaza fighting. The amateur
video of the dead toddlers being laid out on a white *** was actually
shot after an accidental explosion of a Hamas ammunition truck on parade
in Gaza in September 2005.
France 2, which apologized Monday for the erroneous report, was also the
network that broadcast, unchecked, a September 2000 report of the IDF
shooting death of 12-year-old Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Dura. That
report, too, which relied entirely on Palestinian sources, has been
questioned, with a French court ruling the concern over its veracity was
legitimate.
Etienne Leenhardt, the joint director responsible for investigative
reports at France 2, apologized to the Le Post news blogger site, which
caught the false report, for "an error on our part." "The person who
prepared the topic went too fast," he said. "It reminds us that we must
be very attentive on verifying sources."
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I wish I saw more in the media about the many children and people in
Sederot that have been traumatized by the continual rocket fire well
before the Isreali attack.

And they never publicized months ago, the 10 year old boy who had both
legs amputated because of rocket damage.

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