Thursday, August 02, 2007

MEDIA NOT UNIFORM ON GAZA WHITEWASH. Check out the latest article from HonestRepoting: Gaza "Under Siege"? Apparently not all of the media is falling all over themselves to paint the Hamas terrorist regime as the saviors of Gaza. Still, some are--resulting in discrepancies such as this:

AP writes:

"We can't stop all smuggling. We need more machines, we need double the number of border guards," Egyptian army Col. Amr Mamdouh told reporters during a rare tour of the border area Sunday. "Anywhere you stamp your foot on the ground, you will find tunnels," he said.

But The Washington Post writes:

Egyptian border guards have found about 75 percent fewer tunnels from the Gaza Strip since Hamas took control there, an indication of the radical Islamic group's broad success in reducing the smuggling of weapons and other contraband, a top Egyptian border official said Sunday.

Read the entire article.

How long until all of the media starts to report in lockstep?

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