Guardian propagandist Chris McGreal attempts to defend his lethal narrative

Guardian propagandist Chris McGreal attempts to defend his lethal narrative

Our latest post about McGreal – a reporter singled out by the Community Security Trust in their 2011 report on antisemitic discourse – was titled ‘The Guardian’s lethal narrative about snipers who murder innocent children‘, and focused on two reports conjuring the image of IDF soldiers deliberately murdering innocent and defenseless Palestinian children.

We pointed to two stories by McGreal, in 2005 and 2012, which advanced this narrative, with the former being much more explicit.  Here are the relevant ...

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The Failure to Question

Another lethal narrative on the BBC website

Another lethal narrative on the BBC website

This essay is cross posted by Hadar Sela at BBC Watch.

The mainstream media – of which the BBC is part – claims to deal in news rather than fiction or folk-lore. News is based upon what happened in reality and is necessarily supported by factual evidence, with the provision of that evidence being the responsibility of those who circulate the story.

One of the issues facing media outlets in the digital age is speed: the competition with their peers ...

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Elevating Allegation to Fact, Lethal Journalism

Reflections on the Enderlin-Karsenty Case in the Al Durah Affair

Reflections on the Enderlin-Karsenty Case in the Al Durah Affair

Martin Malliet’s Reflections on the Enderlin-Karsenty Case in the Al Durah Affair
Richard Landes
January 1, 2013
The article that follows was originally published on January 1, 2013, the Augean Stables blog

videoIn response to the previous post, reader Martin J. Malliet wrote the following about the upcoming trial in Paris. Since this trial, scheduled for hearing on January ...

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Elevating Allegation to Fact

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