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Media Bias?

I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but for those of you not quite sure what constitutes 'Media Bias, or how a story can be 'spun', here is a perfect example: I'm watching ABC Nightly News with Charlie Gibson. The story is about a school in Gaza that had been fired on by Israeli forces. The school was being used as a designated U.N. shelter for Palestinian children and and Palestinian non-combatants, and the reporter, (Scott Soucutto?) told us that the facility was G.P.S. marked and everything, all the while video of dead and seriously injured women and children were being shown, and a Palestinian man was bewailing the loss of his entire family. A lot of people died, a lot of people were hurt. A horrible scene. When asked how could Israel do such a thing, an Israeli woman in uniform said rockets were being fired from the school. Then right back to more video of a very unfortunate scene. The idea that perhaps rockets  actually were being  fired from the school never comes up. I suggest that if that question were asked, that might lead to thinking about 'what kind of people use civilians as human shields'? Why does it seem not much of a stretch to imagine this of the kind of people that strap explosives on their children and send them out to kill the infidels. I must have missed any official U.N. person coming forward to dispute the Israeli woman's claim. Most of the time you can tell serious liberal spin not by the questions they ask, but by the questions they don't  ask. I am not a Jew. I don't know what really happened. I don't think the reporter did either. I don't know why ABC wants me to think good is bad and bad is good, but they often do. Now to show you my bias; The barbarians are at the gate and Israel is answering.

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