Articles by Peter Hart
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On US TV, Israel Is ‘Striking Back’
Peter Hart – Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting,
7 Jul 2014
This disparity is meaningful. The term “retaliation” suggests a defensive stance undertaken in response to someone else’s aggression. It also lays responsibility for the cycle of violence at the doorstep of the party being “retaliated” against, since they presumably initiated the conflict.
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Peter Hart – Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting-FAIR,
6 Aug 2012
You can count on U.S. corporate media to express alarm about the threat posed by left-wing governments in Latin America. But how do you sound the alarm about left-wing threats to democracy when actual elected left-wing leaders are being removed in anti-democratic coups? That’s no easy feat, but some reporters are up to the challenge. In the Washington Post on July 22 [2012] (under the headline “Latin America’s New Authoritarians”), reporter Juan Forero explains…
→ read full articleDo TV Networks ‘Practice’ for War?
Peter Hart – Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR,
20 Feb 2012
I was visiting ABC News the other day to see a friend who works on graphics. When I went to his room, he showed me all the graphics he was making in anticipation of the Israeli attack on Iran; not just maps, but flight patterns, trajectories and 3-D models of U.S. aircraft carrier fleets. Does that kind of thing actually happen? Well, yeah.
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