{"id":26715,"date":"2014-08-08T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26715"},"modified":"2014-08-08T08:37:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:37:49","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-august-6th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26715","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, August 6th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Wednesday, August 6th, 2014…and here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up,\u00a0<\/strong>Commentary Magazine<\/em>‘s Jonathan Tobin reveals the reality the Left and their MSM shills want to remain unseen…and unknown:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Missing Pictures of Gaza<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\"MSM-Gaza\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Last week, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency\u00a0<\/span>posed an interesting question\u00a0to the\u00a0<\/span>New York Times<\/em>: Why isn\u2019t it publishing any pictures of Hamas fighters in Gaza? The answer from the\u00a0<\/span>Times<\/em>\u00a0and from other media outlets about the lack of any depictions of Hamas terrorists or rocket launchings speaks volumes about the biased nature of much of the coverage of the war.<\/span><\/p>\n

The answer from the\u00a0<\/span>Times\u00a0<\/em>communications shop was candid if not particularly helpful. According to their spokesman, out of the hundreds of images of the fighting filed from Gaza by their photographers, there wasn\u2019t a single clear one of one of the two sides in the conflict.<\/strong><\/span> The same appears to be true of all the other major news outlets, not to mention the broadcast networks and cable news channels operating in Gaza in large numbers.<\/strong><\/span> How is it that we have yet to see a single photo or video of Hamas personnel launching rockets at Israel even though we know that has happened literally thousands of times in the last few weeks?<\/strong><\/span> Is it that the intrepid war correspondents and video teams just happened to miss the chance to take the picture every single time the rockets went up? Or is there some other explanation?<\/span><\/p>\n

…The answer is fairly obvious: despite denials, foreign journalists in Gaza take great care not to depict Hamas military actions because to do so would be to jeopardize their ability to continue to report from Gaza or, even worse, invite attacks from these terrorists<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> This is not the first time we\u2019ve seen this sort of thing happening. A generation ago, Thomas Friedman and others wrote about the difficulty of reporting accurately about the Palestine Liberation Organization when Yasir Arafat\u2019s terrorists exercised their reign of terror in southern Lebanon and parts of Beirut. The same was true in Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq when CNN defended its exclusive niche in Baghdad by failing to tell the truth about what that evil regime was doing. Subsequent admissions from CNN about making tough decisions after Saddam\u2019s fall make the network\u2019s current disclaimers about its reporters and camera operators being subjected to intimidation ring false…”<\/p>\n

Case in point:<\/strong><\/p>\n