{"id":17911,"date":"2013-03-11T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17911"},"modified":"2013-03-11T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:17:46","slug":"separating-the-facts-from-the-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17911","title":{"rendered":"Separating The Facts From The Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Johnson posted an article at Power Line<\/a> today about the death<\/a> of Omar al-Masharawi, the 11-month-old son of BBC<\/a> stringer Jihad al-Masharawi. The baby was killed in Gaza City<\/a> during fighting in the Hamas<\/a>-ruled territory last November. Admittedly, it is tragic when an innocent child is killed in a war, but it is also tragic when the death of that child is exploited with little regard to the facts.<\/p>\n

On November 23, Patrick Pexton, the ombudsman for the Washington Post<\/a>, posted an article about the death of Masharawi.<\/p>\n

The article at the Washington Post states:<\/p>\n

That the man is Palestinian \u2014 not a terrorist but a journalist \u2014 and that the bomb was dropped by Israelis<\/a>, to my mind, is almost beside the point. This photo depicted loss and pain, the horrific cost to innocents on both sides of the violence in the Middle East<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, the photo does show the horrific cost to innocents on both sides of the Middle East. However, the ombudsman seems to have jumped to a conclusion that has since been proven false.<\/p>\n

On March 11, the Washington Post reported:<\/p>\n

A U.N. report indicates an errant Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli<\/a> airstrike, likely killed the baby of a BBC reporter during fighting in the Hamas-ruled territory last November.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The death of Omar al-Masharawi, the 11-month-old son of BBC stringer Jihad al-Masharawi, became a symbol of what Palestinians<\/a> see as Israeli aggression during eight days of fighting that killed more than 160 Palestinians and six Israelis. A woman was killed alongside the baby.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a way it really doesn’t matter to the child’s family which side is responsible for the death of the child–they have still lost a child, but it is disturbing that the initial reports along with the heart-wrenching picture blamed Israel before the facts were known. It is also unfortunate that the Washington Post ombudsman immediately assumed that the reports blaming Israel were accurate.<\/p>\n

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Scott Johnson posted an article at Power Line today about the death of Omar al-Masharawi, the 11-month-old son of BBC stringer Jihad al-Masharawi. The baby was killed in Gaza City during fighting in the Hamas-ruled territory last November. Admittedly, it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2844,88,90,86,2986,5148,245,5147,225,1134],"class_list":["post-17911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-masharawi","tag-middle-east","tag-omar-al-masharawi","tag-palestinian-people","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17914,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions\/17914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}