Today’s U.K. Guardian looks at “Keeping your balance:” The challenge faced by 24-hour news coverage of the Middle East conflict. What’s John Plunkett implying in this excerpt?:
Not much sign of a debate on Fox News, though, where the former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, was the guest on The Bill O’Reilly Factor. “Why is the world against Israel?” asked O’Reilly. “It’s a combination of blaming a lot of their problems on America and Israel,” opined Giuliani. “But all over the world, after Qana [the Lebanese village bombed by Israel in which a number of civilians died], there were eruptions of anti-US and anti-Israel feeling not just from the Arab world but Europe, Asia, why?” To which the obvious answer was: the clue’s in the question, Bill. |
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