I read today that a former news editor from the Israel Broadcasting Agency has admitted that they deliberately slanted the news during the Israel-Lebanon conflict in favour of an Israeli withdrawal - because they had sons there. Dr Chanan Naveh admitted:
In our newsroom, three of the editors had sons in Lebanon, and we took it upon ourselves as a mission - possibly not stated - to get the IDF out of Lebanon... I have no doubt that we promoted an agenda of withdrawal that was a matter of public dispute.
I have suspected for years that Western journalists impose their largely liberal agendas in exactly this way, and it certainly raises the question of whether many others editors out there slant the news in this way and simply don't admit it. At least Dr. Naveh is honest, even if he appears to harbour no regrets about the way he insulted the media's supposed role as objective and balanced. And he SHOULD harbour regrets about it, because his surrender-mongering has undoubtedly aided the jihadists who are Israel's enemies.
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