Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Pictures that are worth a thousand (often misspelled) words


Expressing "frustration" is one thing; advocating another holocaust quite another. Yet the media, for whatever reason, is in the habit of conflating the two.. "Nazis needed," by Tim Blair for the Daily Telegraph, January 19 (thanks to Patrick):

The Age‘s elevated shot doesn’t reveal such fascinating detail. AAP merely describes people “carrying placards calling for an end to what was described as a ‘massacre’”. Meanwhile, in Paris:

Vandals hurled Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in a Paris suburb yesterday in the latest outbreak of anti-Semitic violence in France since the start of Israel’s Gaza offensive …

Home to Europe’s biggest Muslim and Jewish populations, France has recorded more than 55 anti-Semitic incidents since Israel launched its Gaza offensive last month, drawing appeals for calm from politicians and religious leaders. Three other synagogues have been firebombed in the past two weeks and vandals have sprayed anti-Israeli graffiti on at least two other Jewish places of worship.

Jews haven’t been so vilified since Islamists attacked the US on 9/11.

Comment: How many USA media outlets posted or printed this photo? How many then had the courage to redress the message and the messenger? We are not the only source receiving these kinds of photos and the absence of any mainstream media sharing them with the public much less commenting speaks volumes for the state of our "democratic" world today.

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