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Did Reuters Crop Out a Broken Bottle?

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)6/07/2010 8:25:36 am PDT

Carrying over from last thread:

The captions for the photos are also showing bias. Even the language used— like them ‘holding’ the Israeli commando— is stupid. They’re not ‘holding’ him. They’re restraining him. A few of the photos have, more accurately ‘holding down’. But ‘holding’ instead of the more natural ‘restraining’ seems weird.

Or, for example, this one:

daylife.com

Pro-Palestinian activists are seen onboard the Gaza-bound Turkish ship Mavi Marmara in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea

They don’t mention the ‘pro-palestinian’ ‘activists’ are holding weapons (and a single hit from an iron bar can maim or kill someone, that’s not a fucking around weapon), they make sure to note the ship is in international waters, and they call it “Gaza-Bound”, not mentioning it’s trying to run a blockade or that it was legal for the Israelis to board it in international waters.

Maybe I’m overparsing, but it seems like every time they have an opportunity to clarify in favor of the Israelis, they don’t take it, and all terminology is slanted slightly towards the ‘activists’.