Iqbal Tamimi – Media manipulations: The child was called a murderer while the soldier was called a ‘boy’
By Iqbal Tamimi • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, ZionismOne of today’s main articles on the Guardian reads ‘Israel exchanges Lebanese murderer for bodies of two captured soldiers’.
When anyone in the English reading world sees this title and what follows in the article, he or she would immediately think that one of the persons mentioned is a vicious murderer while the others are innocent persons. This is [...]
