Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site sesame.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!talcott!sesame!slerner
From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish,net.tv
Subject: Re: Egyptian attack
Message-ID: <352@sesame.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Oct-85 03:28:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: sesame.352
Posted: Sun Oct 13 03:28:10 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Oct-85 07:39:34 EDT
References: <2047@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Distribution: net
Organization: Lotus Development Corp
Lines: 40
Xref: linus net.religion.jewish:2125 net.tv:3166

> Regarding the recent news item about the Egyptian officer shooting up
> the resort area and killing a number of Israeli tourists:
> 
> The first TV news item covering this that I heard emphasized that the
> action was that of a single armed man (originally identified as a
> policeman) running amok, and shooting *randomly*, and that 5 or 6
> Israelis *and* 5 or 6 Egyptians were killed. Succeeding news broadcasts
> (on other channels at the same timeframe, and on later newscasts)
> completely ignored the killing of Egyptian nationals and mentioned
> *only* the deaths of the Israelis (which were revised up to seven, I
> believe). Also later broadcasts variously identified the shooter as a
> "customs official" and a "soldier".
>..... 
> Anyone follow this story and agree with these impressions I gathered?
> Anybody have any comments on this rather obvious "embedded editorializing"
> technique? It looks like a calculated method of inflaming pro-Israel
> individuals' anti-Egyptian feelings.


Could it also be that the original report was based on *inacurate*
first reports, while the later broadcasts where refined by more information?
I believe that the Israeli government protested the fact that it was
a *soldier* who had no business in the restricted zone who committed the
murders.  (I'm not 100% sure of this, did anyone else pay atention to
Israels press release?)

In any case, while you are correct that there is a danger of 'editorializing',
additional time also (often) gives additional facts and details.


-- 
Opinions expressed are public domain, and do not belong to Lotus
Development Corp.
----------------------------------------------------------------

Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner

              {genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!slerner
                      {cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!slerner
                       talcott!sesame!slerner@harvard.ARPA