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August 14, 2006

Health News, Reuters Style

Posted by Dave Blount at August 14, 2006 2:55 PM

At al-Reuters, even the health news is propaganda. ¡No Pasarán! passes along the first-hand account of a freelance writer living in Israel whose Reuters editor insisted on her twisting medical stories for political ends:

One of the reasons I stopped freelancing for Reuters medical Web site: Instead of doing a story about a massive Israeli hospital drill or the discovery of a new drug platform, Reuters wanted me to write about Israel restricting ambulances with pregnant and or sick women and children inside from entering Israel.

Needless to say, the fact that Israel is desperately attempting to defend its citizens from an enemy that has no qualms at all about sacrificing its own women and children in terror attacks would not be highlighted.

As usual, the insistence on spin isn't the result of a sinister plan, but rather something worse: a mentality thoroughly engrained in the MSM that the objective of journalism is not to inform but to propagandize on behalf of the Left and its Muslim allies.

Fields like health and medicine, though not directly related to politics, may be especially vulnerable, because journalists may feel they can take more liberties at the expense of sound reporting — or they may politicize all the more excessively as a means of expressing their frustration at having to do unglamorous stories while others fire righteous rhetoric at the USA and Israel from only a few miles away from the battle front, posing in flak jackets as the wind tousles their exquisite hair.