Shameless, Textbook Example of Anti-Israel Bias: The LA Times Reports on Hezbollah Cluster Bombs Fired At Israel
By now of course you know that Human Rights Watch has called out Hezbollah for firing cluster munitions at Israeli civilian targets (which is redundant, because those are the only targets that Hezbollah fired at). The way you know this is because Reuters published it in a screaming headline: HRW: Hezbollah hit Israel with cluster munitions. And now we're going to reproduce the LA Times wire on this in full, just so that you can get a feel for the levels of weasly bias:
Hezbollah Used Cluster Bombs, Group Asserts
From Times Wire Reports
October 20, 2006
A rights group reported for the first time that Hezbollah fighters fired cluster bombs at civilian areas in northern Israel during this summer's war, although the number of such strikes was a fraction of those Israel made on Lebanon with the same munitions.
Human Rights Watch said three Israeli civilians were injured in July when cluster munitions landed between three homes in the Galilee village of Maghar.
The New York-based group and the United Nations have accused Israel of firing as many as 4 million cluster bomblets into Lebanon.
Three short paragraphs about the report that Hezbollah fired cluster bombs into Israeli schools. The first one is about how Israel used cluster bombs and the third one is about how Israel used cluster bombs - because that's apparently what the LAT finds relevant in a wire that's about how "Hezbollah Used Cluster Bombs". It's almost like they knew they had to say something about it, so they put it in a headline (attributing the whole thing to an apparently anonymous "group" that "asserts" things) and then didn't bother to actually write anything about it at all.
Hezbollah Used Cluster Bombs, Group Asserts
From Times Wire Reports
October 20, 2006
A rights group reported for the first time that Hezbollah fighters fired cluster bombs at civilian areas in northern Israel during this summer's war, although the number of such strikes was a fraction of those Israel made on Lebanon with the same munitions.
Human Rights Watch said three Israeli civilians were injured in July when cluster munitions landed between three homes in the Galilee village of Maghar.
The New York-based group and the United Nations have accused Israel of firing as many as 4 million cluster bomblets into Lebanon.
Three short paragraphs about the report that Hezbollah fired cluster bombs into Israeli schools. The first one is about how Israel used cluster bombs and the third one is about how Israel used cluster bombs - because that's apparently what the LAT finds relevant in a wire that's about how "Hezbollah Used Cluster Bombs". It's almost like they knew they had to say something about it, so they put it in a headline (attributing the whole thing to an apparently anonymous "group" that "asserts" things) and then didn't bother to actually write anything about it at all.
