Here is link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/patrick-pexton-photo-of-dead-baby-in-gaza-holds-part-of-the-truth/2012/11/23/0cd54eb0-342a-11e2-bb9b-288a310849ee_story.html
But many Post readers saw it differently. Jewish groups and American Jews in large numbers wrote to the ombudsman and to Post editors, protesting the photo as biased.
MaryAnne Golon, The Post’s director of photography, explained to me that the purpose of any front-page photo, regardless of subject, is to move the reader, whether through its beauty, sentiment or drama.
“When we looked at the selection that night of Middle East photos from the wire services, this photo got everyone in the gut,” Golon said. “It went straight to the heart, this sobbing man who just lost his baby son.”
Post staff then authenticated and verified the facts behind the Associated Press photo. The dead baby was real. The bombing was real.
Many readers asked why The Post didn’t balance the photo of the grieving father with one of Israelis who had lost a loved one from the Gaza rocket fire. That’s a valid question.
The answer is that The Post cannot publish photographs that don’t exist. No Israeli civilian had been killed by Gaza rocket fire since Oct. 29, 2011, more than a year earlier. The first Israeli civilian deaths from Gaza rocket fire in 2012 did not take place until Nov. 15, when Hamas, the group that controls Gaza, began firing more accurate and deadly missiles in response to the Israeli offensive that had begun the day before. There were no recent photos of Israeli casualties to be had on the night of Nov. 14.
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When did “Pillar of Cloud” become “Pillar of Defense”? Rabbis ever alert for Israeli military mischief? If so, they got the wrong mischief, hint: it’s not a mischief of language. I suggest we call it “Pillar of Mischief” — why shouldn’t we be in the naming game too?
Our so called Mainstream Media for decades have run interference for that of what Israel does all in the name of security and it is about time they covered the other side but i suspect it has more to do with something else entirely. For too long the American media, propaganda outlets have shielded that of Israel in its war on a people that don’t have the same capability of military hardware and use what they can include rockets of WWII era to fight against a cause they believe in and will do what it takes. Our media plays a good game of back and forth, but with the new media you can longer hide what they have for so long as they no longer control it. What the Israel have been doing to the Palestinians is no different that what Hitler did to the Jews, the difference is that the world and the region look away while using the Palestinians for their political reasons. I challenge any and all Lame Stream American media to go into Gaza and see the destruction, poor, those with limbs and tell a real story instead of the narrative that we have been fed for decades. @Rosenberg, don’t act as if you aren’t part of this same problem.
SDMurphy2: Your personal attack on MJ is uncalled for. This man has been talking about this nightmare for quite some time, hoping that the Americans, largely fast asleep and until recently happy to be like the 3 monkeys, would wake up and put pressure on their own corrupt succession of governments.
Inasmuch as I do relate to your own fury and feeling of impotence, let’s not be like the Israelis and dump all Jews and Israelis into the same trash heap.
Sara, i understand your position and iam not attacking Roseberg as it is more of an observation.
The WaPo also steadfastly refused to call for a ceasefire–throughout “Cast Lead” as well as “Pillar of Cloud.” That’s anyone’s first duty–to get the killing stopped–then negotiations and settlement can start. But the Post always follows Israel’s bloody-minded approach that violence is a first resort and the suffering be damned.
Martha, let’s give credit where due. WaPo DID post the pictures. That’s a major first step. We know that the “pillar of lethal nonsense” will be happen again. But…WaPo has created an important precedent. The pro-violence Israeli hasbara knows that and they have snowed the article’s Comments section with lame excuses and denials. The more people support WaPo’s (even if late-coming) effort, the more likely WaPo will reconsider its policies re Israeli violence. WaPo has noticed that the tide is changing. To them it’s about money and online eyes viewing their articles and ADVERTISEMENTS.
During “cast lead’ a Scandinavian daily (Dagbladet?) posted a picture of a little Gaza girl’s head protruding from above a mountain of bricks which had strangled her before help could reach her, because unopposed Israeli pilots, from the safety of the clear blue skies attack clearly-marked (by order of the Israeli government) Gaza ambulances. (One of many reasons why Israel should be in the docks of the ICC at the Hague.) That picture was reposted and republished countless times. Dagbladet had set a precedence not only for their own country, but all of Europe and its media. Would that the U.S. were next.
I agree. It’s extremely unfortunate that the two papers of record in the US–NYT and WaPo–have long been water carriers for AIPAC, et al. I too was surpised to see the picture on the front page but not to hear that there had been immediate outcries. I’m still waiting to see what the repercussions are for the ombudsman who has suggested that treating dead Palestinian babies like the horror and tragedy they are.
It is beyond pathological (perhaps “inhumane”, à la Rudoren) that someone/anyone of any ideological persuasion can look at a photo of intense grief and loss and not be moved by it. Worse, they put pressure on the news organizations to suppress the stories, all in the name of hiding and defending Israel’s indefensible actions.
Any violence to any civilian, on whichever side of the divide, checkpoint or wall is abhorrent and the story/photo should never be willfully suppressed.
The fact that the bereaved, Jihad Misharawi, was a BBC editor from Gaza certainly helped to bring his story to MSM.