Essential Viewing

This evening, Global is showing a documentary, Massacring Truth, about the international media's shockingly biased (and latently anti-Semitic) coverage of the 2002 Jenin "massacre". Antonia Zerbisias doesn't like it, and I can't think of a higher recommendation.

One of Bob Tarantino's readers notes that Zerb, normally a proponent of the "Palestinians-blow-themselves-up-because-they-don't-have-helicopters" school of political analysis, now chides the Israelis for putting their soldiers at risk by not using air power in Jenin:

AZ also gets extra points for asserting that "23 IDF soldiers were killed, all deaths that might have been avoided had the military attacked from the air rather than rely on its infantry." And how many innocent Palestinians would an air assault have killed? The IDF apparently chose to risk its own soldiers' lives rather than create a civilian bloodbath. Then the media said they committed one anyhow. Then a certain "media critic" gets huffy when anyone actually criticizes the media. Sheesh.

Antonia Zerbisias is pathetic.

Update: Rick McGinnis has seen it:

There are two stunning "gotcha" moments. The first is when this British cartoonist tries to explain why the members of his association voted the "Sharon eating Palestinian babies" editorial cartoon the best of the year. The interviewer asked him why no one draws the same sort of thing about Arafat.

"Because Jews don't issue fatwas," he says, sheepishly.

The other is when the London Times correspondent - Di Giovanni is her name, I believe - defends her reporting on Jenin, insisting that it was as bad as Grozny. An IDF soldier is there to confront her about her bias, and she refuses to talk with him in the room. Then she turns and asks the interviewer and his crew: "Are you Jewish?"

Posted by damian at April 28, 2004 06:29 AM