MEDIA BIAS

What CNN Bias? (LGF)
After uncritically publishing hundreds (if not thousands) of photos misrepresented and staged by Hizballah, CNN suddenly decides to inform their readers that images from Lebanon may have been edited.....By Israel.

Video provokes questions of Lebanese army.
In the video, two Israeli tanks roll up to the gate of the Marjeyoun garrison, where a white surrender flag flutters outside the barracks. Inside, Lebanese soldiers hold trays with glasses of tea, which they offer to the Israelis. The encounter appears merely social. However, it is possible that unpleasant parts of the video were deleted during editing.

After the video aired, the Lebanese interior ministry ordered the arrest of the base commander, Gen. Adnan Daoud, according to The Associated press. Lebanon does not recognize Israel and forbids its citizens any contact with Israelis. At one point in the video, Daoud and an Israeli soldier have the following exchange, as translated by CNN’s Octavia Nasr:
Daoud: “Don’t we need to tell our bosses?”
Israeli soldier: “Tell whoever you want.”
Daoud: “We need to brief them on what happened.”
Israeli soldier: “We briefed (U.S. President) Bush. You brief whoever you want.”
Daoud: “We need to brief Bush too.”

According to Nasr, the tape reflects the Lebanese army’s hands-off policy in the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Lebanon didn’t want to turn the conflict into a war between it and Israel, she said.

The actions, as depicted in a video where parts may have been deleted and edited, could suggest the Lebanese army is weak and unable to take southern Lebanon back from Hezbollah without help.

AFP Gets Hizballah's Word Out (LGF)
Are you curious about Hizballah’s view of the Israeli raid [earlier this week]? Then you’re in luck, because there’s this wire service called Agence France Presse that specializes in stories from the terrorists’ point of view: Hezbollah supporters tell of bold Israeli raid gone wrong.

BUDAY, Lebanon (AFP) - In the eastern Lebanese mountain village of Buday, residents say Hezbollah’s strength combined with Israeli soldiers’ unconvincing
Arabic accents proved fatal for a daring commando raid. And they have little doubt that the raid, which saw one soldier killed in clashes with Hezbollah fighters, targeted an Iranian-linked senior official from the Lebanese Shiite fundamentalist movement, Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek.

Israel said its raid, which drew harsh criticism from Lebanon’s premier and threatened to throw off course a six-day-old truce, was aimed at preventing weapons shipments to Hezbollah from Syria and Iran. But villagers in Buday, nearly all of them self-described supporters of Hezbollah which in recent days has doled out thousands of dollars in cash to those whose homes have been destroyed in southern Beirut, see a different motive.

“They came to capture Sheikh Yazbek,” says one man who refuses to give his name but describes himself an an interior ministry employee in a town where Hezbollah’s yellow and green flags fly proudly from every corner.

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Hizballah's Media Relations Department Gets to Work (LGF)
Now that the fighting is (temporarily) over in Lebanon, Hizballah and their wire service useful idiots are issuing an amazing barrage of pro-Hizballah propaganda, with numerous shots of Hizballah workers distributing stacks of apparently new, possibly counterfeit $100 bills.

UNCLE STICKY WOULD LIKE YOU TO CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING: The Red Cross Ambulance Incident/ How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax and Changed the Course of a War

BBC Admits Engaging in Staged Photos (LGF)
In this Lebanon report, the BBC (probably inadvertently) admits that they stood by and took photographs as Hizballah put a child’s life in danger: Dangers await Lebanon returnees.

When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room. The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next to it while we get our cameras out and record the scene for posterity.