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ABC News tells viewers that
scenes of destruction in Gaza
are in Israel
9
July, 2014
Diane
Sawyer tweeted the following apology today:
More than fifty Palestinians have been killed and another 450 wounded since Monday in Israel’s ongoing assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, dubbed “Operation Protective Edge” by the Israeli army.
As
usual, mainstream media outlets are straining to paint Israel as the
victim, defending its people against irrational Palestinian rocket
fire.
There
is no equating the killing and maiming of dozens of innocent
Palestinians with scared Israelis seeking shelter from crude rockets
that rarely cause damage. But that hasn’t stopped media outlets
from trying, and in some cases, outright lying, to distort the
violence.
In
one stark example, ABC News’ Diane Sawyer misidentifies scenes of
the aftermath of Israeli missile strikes in Gaza as destruction
caused by Palestinian rocket fire.
As
Sawyer segues into the segment, she says, “We take you overseas now
to the rockets raining down on Israel today as Israel tried to shoot
them out of the sky.” Next to her is video footage not of Israelis
or even Israel, but of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.
Sawyer
then incorrectly describes an image of a Palestinian family gathering
belongings in the smoking debris of a missile-hit home in Gaza as “an
Israeli family trying to salvage what they can.”
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