I have posted a follow-up to this post in the comments. — Thus far Fox 25 News hasn’t put the video of their horribly biased and slanted piece about today’s protests as the capital, but I saw it on TV tonight and I gotta say it is a new low for OKC journalism. The story by Andrew Speno provided a very short interview of a spokesperson from CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), clips from the rally, and then 2 longer interiews with members of the local Jewish community and then even a clip of a person from Israel calling by telephone to the US to criticize the protest.This is a joke. I’m sorry but there was no serious discussion of what the protest was about (the fact that HUNDREDS Of Palaestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in retaliation for less than 10 Israeli dead and that Israel is now targeting HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, and MOSQUES in their attacks).I don’t watch local TV much these days (I see no reason to rot my brain with capitalistic, pro-American, pro-war propaganda), but this is a new low.Shame on Fox 25 and shame on Andrew Speno for this pathetic excuse of a “news” story. I wish instead that there was an attempt to talk to members of the local peace movement and pro-peace local Jewish people. Also, I under stand the point of presenting both sides of the argument. Fine, interview the pro-war members of the local Jewish community, but also why don’t you just try to take the views of the protesters seriously? Interview them and at least try to give equal time to both sides of the argument.
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I had a pretty positive email exchange with Andrew Speno (the reporter who put together this story).
He related that according to the time of the story, that 29 seconds was of rally leaders, 8 seconds was natural sound of the rally, 33 seconds was of pro-Israel voices, and the remainder was his reporter narrative (which he believes was fair and balanced).
I wanted to share this to make it clear that my impressions of the time allocated to each side may not have been accurate.
I also think though that bias isn’t quite as simple as two sides and how much time each side gets. It is deeper than that. The question is… do defenders of the Gaza massacre deserve equal time to defend their views in the public sphere?
And are critics of a protest as important to hear as those who braved the cold and wind to protest that day?
IMHO, if the pro-Israeli hostility camp wants equal time for their positions, they should have their own protest. Otherwise, I just don’t see the relevancy.