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Israel demands CNN apology over attack coverage
Attila Somfalvi
Published: 13.03.11, 18:14
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1. News company CNN
Martin Riley ,   Canada   (03.13.11)
Why are you protesting CNN Israel? When President Obama does not like a news company, he bans them from invites. Israel should have the backbone to do the same, if CNN gives biased coverage of Israel (Which it does) then BAN them from Israel. Tell them to take their continual anti-Jewish stance somewhere else in the world.
2. News company BBC
Martin Riley ,   Canada   (03.13.11)
These idiots from BBC should be banned from Israel as well. Their news coverage in Israel is drips with antisemitism. Israel, kick everyone out who is constantly anti Israel. Why do you tolerate this media cancer in your country?
3. and sky news hasn't even mentioned it!
david ,   uk   (03.13.11)
4. INTERNATIONAL LAW IS AN ASS FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT
BENJAMIN ,   SINGAPORE   (03.13.11)
ISRALI BEING A SOVEREIGN NATION WITH ITS PARLIAMENT AND GOVT IS SUPREME. ANY OUTSIDERS REMARKS SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY BINDING EFFECT OVER ISRAEL. I NOTE THAT THE TERRORIST ATTACK IS BEING FEATURED AS THOUGH IT REPERSENTS THE ARABS AT LARGE. THE ATTACK IS BY THE LOCAL GAZA/PALESTINIANS . ANY DENIAL FROM HAMAS AND FATAH IS MERELY A DAMAGE CONTROL PRESS CONTROL. ISRAEL SHOULD START FLUSHING OUT THE TERRORIST TENTS. MR.BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SHOULD MAKE AN ORDER AS TO THAT EFFECT !
5. Watch Fox News!
tanya ,   tel aviv israel   (03.13.11)
6. BBC presenters paid £600 000
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7. Mr. Riley, you are very right.
avi ,   ashdod   (03.13.11)
8. Throw the bastards out!!
Dave ,   Canada   (03.13.11)
9. I agree with Martin from Canada.
EST ,   Miami USA   (03.13.11)
Israel should make it extremely hard for CNN and the BBC to get into Israel. They should be made to pay to get their news from true journalists - kindly note, I am not saying pro-Israel journalists. I am saying they should be made to pay to get their news from true professional journalists - not those who write biased articles. Journalists are supposed to report - not be judge and jury as they write slanted articles.No CNN and no BBC reporters should get credentials to work in Israel. Period!
10. And the European medias..
michel ,   Jerusalem   (03.13.11)
were even worse. The French nespapers, the AFP, Spanish papers..
11. Right now on CNN...
Simon ,   Jerusalem   (03.13.11)
one of the main headlines is: Japan PM: Quake aftermath 'toughest' crisis since WWII I guess they're anti-Japanese as well.
12. i never go to CNN for news
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (03.13.11)
they are biased and distort facts a little too much for my taste. it's been years since i read what they have to say.
13. The Itamar muder story got an entry on the DrudgeReport...
seadog1946 ,   ArthurKill, NY   (03.13.11)
though Bibi's fulminations weren't mentioned.
14. hussein obama
fad egypt   (03.13.11)
stopped using the expression war on terror or war on islamic terror or war on radical islam so the qaeda and taliban and global gihad is are longer terror networks so it is normal that the media which must be unbiased media to describe that attack as it wants but it is not a terror one
15. BBC and CNN are not on my menu for years
(03.13.11)
I don't drink poison!
16. Actually, by the Treaty of San Remo, only the Jewish...
Scott ,   USA   (03.13.11)
... National Home is sovereign from the Jordan to the sea. It was signed in 1922. Go argue with that!
17. CNN
J. Beresford ,   Sussex, UK   (03.13.11)
The Israeli press office really has no one to blame except their own inadequate policy regarding foreign news operations operating from within Israel. Official demands for apologies are not effective. The only correct policy is for Israel to close down the CNN bureau. The message will spread very quickly. The gurantee of free press rights applies to Israeli media and not necessarily to foreign news outlets who report with a severe anti-Israel bias. Israel is withing her right's to demand foreign press bureaus report using a common 'stylebook' or not at all. It is time the government got tough on this policy. Lodging weak protests are a waste of time and effort.
18. ISRAEL 100% TO BLAME
LAWRENCE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (03.13.11)
Throw the bums at CNN and BBC out .Israelis need to get some pride and self-respect.
19. All the foreign medias should be ban of Israel
smith   (03.13.11)
20. This happens all the time.
Gabriel ,   Jerusalem   (03.13.11)
The BBC online article does the same thing, always using quotation marks in a deliberate attempt to attack the credibility of official Israeli government and/or military reports. Almost all news outlets also do not use the term "murder" to describe these events, rather they use the term "killing". For those who know the English language, there is an important distinction between murder and killing which is lost among "professional" journalists covering this story. The BBC also regularly closes its articles that in one way or another deal with settlements with the anti-Israel rhetoric of "international law". Look, it's no secret, anyone who consumes enough of the BBC's coverage of Israel can see the bias. There is clearly serious politicization over at the BBC's Israel office, and it's been this qay for quite some time.
21. Bibi it's time you learn that the WORLD DOES NOT GIVE A HOOT
Chaim   (03.13.11)
about Israel or about the Jews in general. Stop pandering to the anti-Semitic world and DO WHAT'S GOOD FOR ISRAEL and stop worrying about the anti-Semitic news media, CNN. Who cares what they say? Which normal person reads their stuff anyhow?
22. CNN + BBC = half of the quartet
eddie ,   london UK   (03.13.11)
US and UK form half of the quartet, so their respective media show their bias.
23. Really it's CNN and other media....
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (03.13.11)
Outlets that cause these things to happen. They provide the ready made excuse, for excusing all Arab atrocities. Why? it's "the Settlements" of course. This is the free pass Arabs always get, plus the repeated lie, that they are illegal, which of course they're not. I posted a couple links for the legal status and of course YNET won't post my response. But if you read the legal aspects, you find the settlements are NOT illegal, just another repeated lie.
24. CNN & BBC Are News Organizations, Not
Doug ,   Rochester, USA   (03.13.11)
Hasbara organizations. Their responsibility is to accurately report the news, not spread unproven Israeli propaganda.
25. Punish CNN and BBC, please!
FG ,   H   (03.13.11)
They fail to uphold even the base minimum of accepted journalistic standards! Any informed, clever reader/listener is well equipped to discern and spot their sometimes rabid, occasionally refined and deviously biased anti-Israel animus most of the time. They are not news reporters. They both are politicized one-sided biased propagandists on behalf of the Palestinian side generally, and Abbas' tinpot dictatorship specifically.
26. BBC = British Bullshit Corporation
Tova M. ,   Rehovot, Israel   (03.13.11)
27. Because it doesn't fit CNN narrative
Cynic ,   USA   (03.13.11)
Ever since the uprising in Egypt CNN has provided the narative that the Arabs are all pro-democracy and peace loving. They barely reported the rape of CBS reporter Lara Logan because it didn't fit their narative.
28. Have to ban all the news agencies except Fox.
Sarah. B ,   USA / Israel   (03.13.11)
and extend the separation wall into the sky as well. Enough of this cowardly world!!
29. news is a business. you go where the money is.
(03.13.11)
the muslim population is a huge audience and the news stations have to please them or they'll lose 1.7 billion viewers.
30. No more hospitality
james ,   london/israel   (03.13.11)
Jeremy Ali Bowen should not be given any hospitality by Israelis....the BBC spent £250.000 in court regarding the Balen report from being made public. The Israeli public should stop serving the alleged jounalist any coffee....time to Boycot they are Israel enemy...END of.
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