Bloggers try to counter anti-Israel media bias with bad news on other states

Bloggers try to counter anti-Israel media bias with bad news on other states
By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: blog, Israel, media bias

What began six months ago as a brazen attempt to counter a perceived anti-Israel slant in the Dutch media, has evolved into a network monitoring the media in eight countries across the world. The idea is simple: Beat press bias at its own game by advertising only bad news about one place.

Over the past months, seven activists from Israel and elsewhere have been exposing online readers to scandalous yet accurate reports from media in Britain (violent drunk teens), France (high homeless mortality), Norway (serial child molesters), Finland (sexual harassment in parliament), Sweden (soaring suicide rates), The Netherlands (menacing Muslim unrest), Mexico (rampaging flood victims) and Los Angeles (drive-by killings).

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9/11: Japanse senaat stelt vragen over WTC7, Pentagon en rol Al Qaeda

Inzet van 11 september als agendapunt is de vraag of de oorlogen in Afghanistan en Irak wel gerechtvaardigd zijn als onvoldoende is bewezen dat Al Qaeda de hoofdschuldige is. In Japan bestaat veel weerstand over actieve deelname aan de War on Terror.

Het opzienbarende nieuws over de Japanse twijfel aan de toedracht van 9/11 is bij mijn weten nergens door de Nederlandse nieuwsmedia gemeld.

Des te meer redenen om massaal Frank Ho's Volkskrantblog over dit onderwerp aan te bevelen. Stem hier.

Venezuela: Second Annual Blogstock

Over the course of two days, the Venezuelan blogosphere [ES] gathered for the second year at a site far from the capital to celebrate with musical bands and alcohol. Blogstock is “the” party. There are no lectures or symposiums to define the digital world, nor some conclusion reached for the use by internet users. It was all about a celebration of a gathering of digital camaraderie and it was a party on full-blast [ES].

In its second consecutive year, Blogstock gathered dozens of bloggers, Twitter-users, Flickr-users and other forms of information citizens (infocitizens) for a night of concerts, drinks and food, Venezuelan-style.

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Blogs as reliable as mainstream media - ACCC

"What is even more worrying for traditional media organisations is that some of their assumptions about users trusting known brands are starting to look a little shaky," Mr Samuel told a Walkley business lunch in Sydney today.

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