Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Jerusalem Post: So what if IDF troops killed a Palestinian girl?

Haaretz headline: Officer on tape says he `confirmed kill' of Gaza girl

Jerusalem Post headline: Commander who verified kill is charged

The second headline - with the very sanitary phrase "verified kill" - simply ignores that a 13-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by IDF gunfire.

Even the Jerusalem Post subheadline on the website's homepage - "I confirmed the kill after shooting the first two bullets" - makes no mention of the identity of the "kill." The reader has no context for the story.

Haaretz and JPost have their political agendas, but the latter's decision to bury information vital to the story is at best sloppy journalism and at worst a repulsive attempt to advance a political agenda.