4/2/09: Ax Murder Of Shlomo Nativ - A Grim Addendum

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A continuation of this blog article.


A GRIM ADDENDUM: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW HUFFPOST PLAYED THIS STORY IN HEADLINES AND PICTURES --- VS WHAT IT DOES FOR ITS STORIES OF PALESTINIAN CHILD-VICTIMS

One might guess how HuffPost was going to play the horrific story of the barbaric murder of Shlomo Nativ by the wording of its teaser piece headline --- and the picture it chose to run with it:

The first thing to notice is that there is no picture of the victim, the crime scene, or mourners --- as HuffPost almost invariably employs for teasers and threads about Palestinians. More on that in a moment.

"Ax Attack"? Who knew that axes can jump off store shelves and murder children! But given that HuffPost is among the best-financed and -staffed political blogsites, their extensive journalistic resources may have uncovered something the rest of the world isn't aware of. Perhaps the axes in Palestinian stores are endowed with consciousness, raging Jew-hatred, and self-mobility?

Also notice that the words "Palestinian," "terrorist" and "murder" appear nowhere in the headline of either the photo-link, or the story itself.

So it wasn't even a Palestinian axe?!



Further, we're unaware of why an ominous picture of IDF soldiers at night would be used in the teaser piece, as shown above.

Would not a bloody crime scene photo been more appropriate? What about the grieving victims' families (as was featured in other news stories --- and even on its own linked story thread)?


Here is the crime scene photo that was available from ZAKA:

Yet neither of these photos were used as the teaser-pieces.

No, as we have shown and will continue to show, HuffPost reserves that treatment only for splash headlines of Palestinians and their children who are accidentally killed in responsive military operations by the IDF --- not for Israeli children that are deliberately and savagely attacked by Islamofascist murderers.


One example is from the recent Operation Cast Lead, in which Israel had finally had enough of Hamas and related groups raining down rockets and murder on its civilians, and fought back. Hamas cowardly inserted its fighters and rocket launchers within the civilian population and dared the IDF to attack them ---- which it did, with surgical precision. Yet of course, there were civilian casualties.

Here is what one of HuffPost's splash threads looked like on December 29, 2008:

Headline:
Israeli Assault Targets Symbols Of Hamas Power
(Here; Note: If you follow this link, however, you'll note that HuffPost has since changed the wording of this headline, but the above wording is validated in the JPG page-captures, below)

Photo:

Caption:
"The father of Palestinian Dena Balosha, 4, left, one of five members of the same family including three children and two teenagers who were killed in an Israeli missile strike, carries her body during their funeral in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008."







HuffPost actually matched the above photo with the statement "Israeli Assault Targets Symbols Of Hamas Power," as if 4-year-old Dena Balosha were a symbol of Hamas "power."

Could Hamas have hoped for more compliant coverage of its propaganda, and the carnage resulting from its terrorism?

The JPGs of the first two pages of the PDF of this thread are below (click to enlarge):

Given all the above, it's little wonder that raging, Israel-hating leftists can so easily check truth and humanity at the electronic door that HuffPost holds open for them, so they can come on in, set a spell, and outdo Hamas's hatred, lies and blood libels against Israel, and a murdered Israeli boy, on a day like this.

And while HuffPost makes $ on every comment, and every page refresh.

The question is, do HuffPost's advertisers, who are paying the bills, actually know what they are paying to support --- and the audience they are paying to reach?


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4/8/09 ADDENDUM: THE DIFFERENCE, VIVIDLY DEPICTED

In contrast to the way that HuffPost chose to cover the Shlomo Nativ murder, by failing/refusing to show a picture of him or those mourning him in its headline teaser, here is how it chose to depict a Palestinian journalist who is merely being detained ---



Nope, no bias there.

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