Sunday, October 08, 2006

Festering Fisk

From Robert Fisk's essay in today's Independent:-

It may well be that journalists in the "West" should feel a burden of guilt for much that has happened because they have, with their gullibility, helped to sell US actions much more effectively than Karen Hughes.

Their constant references to a "fence" instead of a wall, to "settlements" or "neighbourhoods" instead of colonies, their description of the West Bank as "disputed" rather than occupied, has a bred a kind of slackness in reporting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


Not "fence" but "security barrier".

Not "settlements" but "communities".

Not "occupied" but "administered".

Not "settlers" but "revenants".

See, Robert, how easy it is?

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