Tuesday, August 31, 2010
I still remember quite well seeing the above the fold, front page photo in the Boston Globe. At the time I didn't know what a distortion of reality it was. I'd hazard that most Globe readers never learned what a distortion it was but were simply left with that horrible first impression:
Now, ten years on, Honest Reporting has united Tuvia Grossman with the policeman who actually saved his life: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dramatic Reunion Ten Years After The Photo That Started It All
On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man -- bloodied and battered -- crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of Israeli brutality -- with the clear implication that the Israeli soldier was the one who beat him.
That young man was, in fact, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago, who was beaten within inches of his life before being rescued by the Israeli border policeman in the photo.
The resulting outrage generated by the gross distortion of the photo "launched" HonestReporting...
...Now, ten years later, we caught up with Tuvia in an exclusive interview...
More here. And here's the video:
So with regard to the media what has changed in 10 years?
Honest reporting in their "The Photo that Started it All" post show the "boycott coke add using Grossman as a Palestinian. (link at the bottom)
Ask any Palestinian about our corporate color
Still lies and deception.
Show compassion for the victims of the bombing of Pan Am 103
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