Two nights ago...via ZDF (Channel Two, German public TV)....they ran a short piece on a shooting at the Temple Mount (Jerusalem, Israel).
Normally, I wouldn't care and it'd just go by me, but I watched it and kinda wondered if there was anything missing from the story.
Focus brought this up yesterday.
So the way that ZDF told this story, with the banner/headline was "Israel: a Palestinian shot."
To the basic story (not the ZDF-told story)....there's this single Palestinian guy (99-percent terrorist) who got shot/killed by the police. No one argues about that part, but then, all this occurs...AFTER he'd taken a rifle and shot 1 Israeli and wounded three others....back on Sunday morning....at the Temple Mount.
The dead terrorist? Well....you wouldn't know it by ZDF, but he was regarded as a radical Islamist and was apparently a Hamas member.
So you line up this story.
The way that ZDF told it? Pretty much faked-up the story (biased to the extreme).
The sad thing about this.....they could go an entire month without faking up stories or trying to churn up a biased view....hundreds of straight stories. Then you hit some week where you notice two or three. It's like they keep Johan tied up but let him go once in a while to get silly or stupid.
What's the real angle here? You have some public TV news people who have an firm attachment to whatever Hamas says....has to be true, and automatically downplay any alternate reality.
Silly in a way....but this is why you have to continually view what you see....be skeptical, and ask stupid questions.
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