Yesterday, I wrote about how ABC News made up false facts that it reported in a news story about rising gasoline prices. Today, ABC News has once again put out a news story that is way off base. The article in question describes the posting by an Israeli soldier of a picture on one of his online accounts of a child seen through the cross hairs of his rifle. ABC goes on at great length about the dehumanizing nature of the photo. It also allows various Palestinian spokesmen to denounce Israel for such conduct.
So why is this wrong? Well, first of all, the story is about a picture posted in an on line account that may be tasteless. Adding this photo to the other tasteless photos posted on line takes the total of such photos well over one billion. Indeed, it turns out that the soldier in question did not take the photo; he just posted one that he found into his own account. But that is a minor point. The big point is this one: yesterday, Syrian government forces launched a rocket attack on civilians in Aleppo. Thirty people were killed and scores more wounded in the unprovoked attack. Elsewhere in Syria, another twenty people were killed in fighting. ABC does not even mention this slaughter. It devotes a lengthy article to a photograph which is tasteless but which was unconnected to anyone being hurt or killed at the same time that it ignores the mass killing of one Arab by others.
So why is this wrong? Well, first of all, the story is about a picture posted in an on line account that may be tasteless. Adding this photo to the other tasteless photos posted on line takes the total of such photos well over one billion. Indeed, it turns out that the soldier in question did not take the photo; he just posted one that he found into his own account. But that is a minor point. The big point is this one: yesterday, Syrian government forces launched a rocket attack on civilians in Aleppo. Thirty people were killed and scores more wounded in the unprovoked attack. Elsewhere in Syria, another twenty people were killed in fighting. ABC does not even mention this slaughter. It devotes a lengthy article to a photograph which is tasteless but which was unconnected to anyone being hurt or killed at the same time that it ignores the mass killing of one Arab by others.
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