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Headlines That Hurt

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Maybe I’m just getting a little overly-sensitive or cranky in my old age. I don’t think I’m a right-winger. And as someone who has worked in journalism his entire adult life, I’m certainly not a media-basher. But the headline slapped me upside my head and made me, well, annoyed. It was an article in today’s Sun about Shlomo Nativ, a 13-year-old Israeli who was brutally killed by a Palestinian man wielding a pickax on April 2. The headline was, “Palestinian Kills Israeli Settler, 13.” Now it’s true that Bat Ayin, where Shlomo lived, is a settlement located in the Judean Hills of the West Bank. I’m not going to start getting into that whole thing. My point is, this was a 13-year-old boy. He was a boy. This was a terrible, senseless tragedy. I would never call a boy… read more

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This is so typical. You should subscribe (and join) CAMERA. They track these type headlines. They gather statistics on how these headlines routinely dehumanize Israelis and deemphasize Palestinian culpability.

Posted by radman on 04/27/09 at 02:26 PM

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