American Thinker Blog: Looking at Terrorists and Seeing Only Suspected Gunmen

americanthinker.com - 12/2/2008

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The Telegraph's picture is part of a slide show and is the sixteenth picture. It shows a gunman walking through the Mumbai train station, holding an assault rifle with one hand. His finger is on the trigger. The newspaper caption reads, "A suspected gunman walks in the premises of the ...

americanthinker.com - 12/7/2008

American Thinker Blog: When we all know the press is lying

— americanthinker.com — The Times was being silly in suggesting this was just an "accidental" hostage opportunity - and not... just because, when Muslim terrorists capture Jews, it's not a hostage situation, it's a mass murder-in-waiting. The sole surviving "militant" revealed ... (more) American Thinker Blog: When we all know the press is lying

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JammieWearingFool: Terrorists? What Terrorists?

Cold Fury: More moral confusion

TigerHawk: "Suspicion" in the face of facts

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Terrorists? What Terrorists?
JammieWearingFool — Charles Lipson at the American Thinker does a brilliant dissection of the painfully biased media coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Calling these terrorists "suspects" in the midst of the carnage they so obviously perpetrated is worse than the usual banality of mainstream journalism. It is craven. Faced with the visible image of terrorists at work, these newspapers responded with the insipid posture of professional neutrality . Nor can these photo captions be excused as one person's mistake. They passed through too many hands for that. They ran in prominent locations ...

More moral confusion
Cold Fury — ... the fact and produce evidence of their crimes that would be admissible in court. The British newspapers’ captions show that they are trapped in the same mindset, determined to presume everyone innocent until they have been duly convicted in a fair trial. The effect is to label those responsible for mass killing with the same delicate language that is (rightly) applied to someone accused of stealing orange marmalade from Harrods’s. The last paragraph spells it all out quite nicely. Read it . Apparently, for liberal “journalists” both at home and abroad, judgment and moral ...

"Suspicion" in the face of facts
TigerHawk — Charles Lipson looks at the captions of some of the news photographs from the Mumbai attacks, and asks a very reasonable question: If a man holding a gun is only a "suspected gunman," ...