From: Aljazeera 58 killed in Basra explosions "Car bombs ripped through three police stations in southern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 58 people and injuring some 200, a hospital source said. At one station in the Saudia district of the city of Basra, four vehicles were seen destroyed including two school buses. At least one of the school buses appeared to have been full of passengers, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said" -VERSUS- From: BBC Scores killed in Iraqi bombings "The rush-hour explosions caused panic across Basra A series of bomb attacks in the Basra area of southern Iraq has killed at least 68 people and injured many more. The first blasts - apparently suicide bombings - occurred outside three police stations in Basra city centre during Wednesday's morning rush hour. Many of the dead and injured were children travelling in passing buses on their way to school."
I don't undersand your point. The quote in Aljazeera ("passengers") is by an Associated Press reporter i.e., not an Al-Jazeerra reporter. And as the sentence has already stated that it was a school bus there's no need to point out the obvious - that the "passengers" were children. Passengers in school buses usually are.
Lets see what the homepage starts with:Israeli occupation forces kill eight in Gaza That's Fairenough. Lets see what it says: Hmmm .... I wonder why they didn't just say 8 bystanders? my point is Aljazeera is as bad as CNN. And refering to small children simply as "passangers" is pathetic. That's like saying a few Iraqi citizens have died since the war - true but does not convene the same information nor emotion and would be a diservice to the Iraqis that have died. So in summary Aljazeera = CNN
Point taken. Thanks. Certainly the BBC article is more emotive, but I'd have to be reading a lot more Aljazeera for a better feel. Dip in now and then for an alternative perspective. CNN is good - for a laugh, that is. Have to check it out now and then when a particualrly challenging event - in term's of wringing it beyond recognition through the CNN machine - occurs. (How will they handle this one?) Or, of course, to see if they mention it at all, or to see how many seconds (or parts thereof) they devote to this particular momentous, yet a little too challenging for the audience, event. Also interesting to see, as events in a paricular part of the world become a little too lively to be ignored, how they start to "inform" the audience. Curious to see how, courtesy of CNN, the "powers that be" want Americans to view a certain people, power, country. Anyway, I babble.
...Some carbon lifeforms were disposed in the process... Source: Objective Times Obviously the schoolbus was a big misstake of one of the suicidebombers, while iraqi policemen with a little imagination can be portrayed as collaborators with the foreign invaders, this action is not gonna rally sympathy from any local civilians (ok, this is the point where the conspiricy theorists should dtep in and point out that this was mossad action hehe)...
The mistake that Aljezeera made was that they could have reported using "buses" and "carbon lifeforms" because these words are, not totally, but still partly true and nobody can accuse them of lying. Can anyone even imagine what we would have heard from Aljezeera if the coalition did something like this even unintentionally? How about "Defenseless Kindergarten School Buses" and "Innocent Little Children"? By the way, how was it possible that this martyr did not see at least one of the two school buses right before he detonated? I believe this guy did see at least one but had decided to ignore the outcome because he was in such a hurry to meet his reserved 72 virgins. If I remember it right, the number of children killed in this school bus is 17. From reliable holy sources, heaven officials gave this martyr not 72 but only 55 virgins because one virgin is to be taken away for each child killed. I wonder if this heroic martyr is disappointed in this reduced number of virgins.
Hey, nobody said the people who did this terrible thing were sane, or worthy of pity. this thread is about discussing the different shade that different words put on it. You are correct in pointing out that the language used would be different if the coalistion had done the killing, however, this isnt any different from how things are reported by the US media et al, about heroes, doing a job, etc etc.
American soldiers are my heroes and they are doing their job. How else can they be described? If the tragedy was a result of coalition action even unintentionally, I believe that there will be a clear difference in how U.S. media reports this versus Aljezeera. The U.S. media will likely use the words "School Buses" and "Children" compared to "Defenseless Kindergarten School Buses" and "Innocent Little Children" which are likely to be used by Aljezeera. I can assure you that the U.S. media will not use the words "Buses" and "Carbon Lifeforms" Any of those words are all true but it clearly shows the media bias between U.S. and Aljezeera.
