Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Metula News Agency

Hmmm, somehow I hadn't heard of this particular episode before:
That is what, according to Parker, explains the evolution of the New York Times (NYT) that gave, on 7 February, a striking demonstration of the disinformation it practices in its treatment of Middle East news. The incident happened when, reproducing in its columns an article from the Herald Tribune [1], its affiliated daily paper, the New York Times took the liberty of amputating from the article a paragraph that did not fit in with its editorial policy.

This paragraph revealed the red-handed lying of the permanent correspondent of the French public television channel France 2 in Israel, Charles Enderlin, reporting the fact that the chief editor of L'Express, Denis Jeambar, had written in Le Figaro that there were no pictures of the child's agony in the raw rushes in France 2's possession. This same paragraph, which the New York Times consigned to oblivion, also indicated that the raw footage contained numerous scenes in which Palestinians “played” war games where they fought against Israelis, simulating, in most cases, imaginary wounds.

So the readers of the New York Times had to make do without this information, unless they consulted the complete version of the article available in the Herald Tribune.
Metula News Agency

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