Bizarre media inversion
An Israeli is shot at and wounded, and the Palestinian coalition is “embarrassed” that it managed, once again, almost instantly to breach a cease fire. Guess which gets the headline? (And you’re right if you bypassed that poor Israeli man.) Somehow this strikes me as different from those endless stories that are headlined “Palestinian teenager shot.” Often, after reading down a bit, do discover that he was shot because he was trying to launch a Molotov cocktail, or because he was a rock thrower caught in the crossfire between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters. The press is pretty good about not lying regarding basic facts, but I sure don’t appreciate the way in which the press so often decides to present those facts.
