Monday, July 02, 2007

Bad Journalism=Bankruptcy

Today's Pulitzer Award Analysis

Here's the AP's account of the Muslim Terrorist car bombing attempts in Great Britain.


Give it a read and come back for the quiz.

*Final Jeopardy Music Playing*

Okay, ready for the quiz?  How many times were the words "Muslim," al-Qaeda," or Islam" mentioned in this 1,110 word account? 

That's right. Despite knowing that one bomber is Dr Mohammed Atta Asha.  From Jordan. And another is from Iraq, this is how the AP spins it. Two oblique mentions of "Muslim."
  1.  "The previous round of terrorist activity in Britain, in July 2005, was largely carried out by local Muslims, raising ethnic tensions in Britain."- (Ooooh.  Ethnic tensions)
  2. "... Tony Blair's decision to send troops to Iraq in 2003 and has shown support for greater anti-terror measures that have angered Britain's some 1.8 million Muslims." (What's this?  Muslims are angered?)
No Islamic.  No al-Qaeda.  Wait.. I just now had a notion. Remember how crack veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas quit UPI in protest over its sale to the Washington Times owner, the Unification Church? Because they would churn the news and make stuff up to conform to American  rightwing ideology? Let's see how UPI is covering this story.


Analysis: Who's behind the London bombs?
   
By CLAUDE SALHANI
UPI International Editor

WASHINGTON, July 2 (UPI) -- Are we witnessing a resurgence of al-Qaida and groups affiliated with Osama bin Laden's terror franchise? Consider the following incidents, which unfolded within the space of 24 hours in Great Britain alone.
 
Helen Thomas is an Islamist apologist, and that characterization has nothing to do with her Lebanese heritage, she's "a moonbat of the highest order."  Bill Moyers below blames the decaying state of the grand old newspapers on .. well, I'm not really sure.   What he doesn't mention is they have been outed as broadsheets for leftist America haters, which equals crap journalism.  And bankruptcy in a free market.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here, here!

Casca

Anonymous said...

Just so the PC crowd will know, Izlam is a religion, not an ethnicity.

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