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the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



22 Aug 2011

Scrubbed, biased and incorrect articles

Sometime one sees news articles and one is incensed with the incorrect information being reported or the bias which is blatant in the article. Well, today, one individual achieved results after calling to cancel his subscription to a newspaper.

IsraelMatzav posted about a headline in the JPost titled Israel, Hamas attempt truce after 3 days of mutual attacks. Upset with the word, "mutual," the blog author's wife called up the newspaper to cancel her subscription. If you check out the JPost article now, the word "mutual" has been scrubbed from the headline.
But sites which linked to the post still have the word "mutual" in the headline.

Unfortunately, I cannot use the threat of cancelling my subscription to the following website which reported false information, according to elderofziyon.blogspot.com.

He writes about WAFA, the official PA news agency.

But this symbol of the "moderate" Palestinian Authority has no compunctions with lying about recent history either.Sunday was the anniversary of the attempted firebombing of the Al Aqsa Mosque by a deranged Austrialian Christian named Denis Michael Rohan.Yet WAFA, in its article about the anniversary, says that Rohan was Jewish. Three times.

The WAFA article was written in Arabic, but if you submit it to a Google translation, you will see that "Israeli authorities continued to work hard in order to Judaize Arab Jerusalem, and always try to hide the image of the Dome of the Rock which is the symbol of Arab Jerusalem to the world..."

One comment posted stated that Al Jazeera also identified Mr. Rohan as Jewish, only to change the religion in a later version of a published article.
In 1969, for example, Denis Michael Rohan, an Australian Christian who set fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem,

An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Denis Michael Rohan as Jewish.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/2011723135619293955.html

But, those who copied the article onto their sites did not bother to update the correct version.
In 1969, for example, an Australian Jew who set fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem...
http://muslimvillage.com/2011/07/24/norway-islam-and-the-threat-of-the-west/

Finally, we have an article discussing the delay of the flotilla report which reports that both sides are blaming the other country for the delay. It is interesting to see if other articles are just blaming Turkey or Israel for the delay.

The United Nations on Monday again delayed the release of a report on Israel’s raid on a Turkish-led aid flotilla to Gaza because the two sides had not agreed on the document, a UN spokesman said.
..“The demand to postpone came from Israel, like the previous demands,” Selcuk Unal, Turkish foreign ministry spokesman told Turkey’s Anatolia news agency.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli official told AFP that “the Turkish side asked for the delay.”

http://www.lhrtimes.com/turkey-israel-wrangle-over-gaza-flotilla-report.html

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