media bias . made in israel

That the western mainstream media is biased and playing the rather bloody, Israeli card  is a well known and accepted fact. From the Beeb to even the Guardian, the bias is not even subtle.

The pressure from dangerously well organised Israeli  lobby groups  is just too much for them , it seems.

Sadly, a free and fearless press is just a figment of  the west's imagination. The proud and independent press I once wanted to be a part of, just does not pass the litmus test of standing up to Israel's lobbies and their money pressure - besides its violent targeting of any Media that dares to stand up  and try to be objective. Israel has actually shot a British photographer ( James Henry Dominic Miller) in Gaza and recently bombed the media building there. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Miller_(filmmaker)

Look at this extended defensive quote and think about the inhuman reality of the Gaza Strip, A strip of  fenced in prison land, that is supposed to have the highest human density in the world. The idea of Surgical Strikes is a myth that has been blown apart by the huge number of civilians regularly blown apart in apparently hi tech, wars.  The Israeli army  has used Human Shield too. Young Palestenian boys, I remember.

Israel claims it is carrying out "surgical strikes" and making strenuous efforts to avoid civilian casualties. "It is our intention to avoid what is called collateral damage," Moshe Yaalon, minister for strategic affairs, told a press conference in Jerusalem. "We operate slowly, identify the target and clean the area around it," he added, referring to warnings issued via dropped leaflets and text messages to civilians to stay away from individuals and locations likely to be targeted.

"But when they use civilians as human shields, what is our choice?" he said. "If they position rockets in densely populated areas, such as mosques and schoolyards, we should not be blamed for the outcome."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/18/gaza-israel-children-killed-air-strike

In 2006, an independent panel of senior public figures published a report assessing the impartiality of the BBC's coverage of the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

The panel, chaired by Sir Quentin Thomas, a senior figure in the British Home Office, found "identifiable shortcomings, particularly in respect of gaps in coverage, analysis, context and perspective and in the consistent maintenance of the BBC's own editorial standards."

The Thomas Report, as it became known, was quickly shoved under the carpet by the BBC, even though it had originally been commissioned by the corporation's own governors, and business continued as usual ("Report of the Independent Panel for the BBC Governors on Impartiality of BBC Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," April 2006, available on the Internet Archive*). In the last few days, the shortcomings highlighted in the report have never seemed so glaring.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_65152.shtml