Remember the Gaza abuse report when Israeli soldiers spoke out about soldier abuse, reporting that they were forced to use Palestinian civilians as human shields among other war crimes? Well, I have been analyzing coverage of the two stories by CNN and France 24 for a class, and in doing so I noticed a very interesting difference in the American journalistic culture. The general manager of France 24 openly said in an interview that their organization did have values on secularism, education, democracy, etc. They have values, but aside from those values strive for balance and transparency in their reporting. That made me think. CNN would never make such an admission about its values, but in what they choose to cover, their word choice, and editing decisions, a bias is definitely communicated only not transparently. I just have to ask how objective is US news truly? Pay attention to which New York Times' international coverage pops up on my blog.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/15/israel.gaza.report/index.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20090715-gaza-veterans-idf-moral-deterioration-war-crimes-palestine-breaking-the-silence-soldiers-israel
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