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Letter to Raleigh News & Observer [to CPWJ Letters page] [ to CPWJ home page] 08/12/02N&O Misleading headline On July 29, 2002, the N&O printed an AP article that related how Israeli settlers, during a funeral procession through Palestinian neighborhoods (No one seems to question why they would parade through Palestinian neighborhoods), shot a Palestinian girl standing on her balcony and stabbed an eight-year-old boy in his home. The N&O headline declared: "Palestinians, Jewish settlers clash during funeral". Israeli settlers committed some atrocious acts of violence in Palestinian neighborhoods, but the headline assigned equal blame. Several days after I noticed the misleading headline, I discovered an analysis of other media's reporting of the same incident, comparing CNN's coverage to that of MSNBC: http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/cnnvsmsnbc.html The N&O headline was almost exactly that of CNN, "Palestinians, Jewish settlers clash..." while the MSNBC headline more accurately noted that "Settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron". Are the copy editors at the N&O allowed to reflect their biases in the paper's headlines? Can the other editors monitor this to ensure greater objectivity? John Crane |
