here we have journalists not speaking up for him --- because we all know what he was doing there
and it wasn't for journalism or for the USA On May 23, 7:29 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > But he was a journalist and here we have journalists not speaking up for > him. They are totally beneath contempt for that alone. > > > > > > plainolamerican wrote: > > Perl was killed because he was a jew - not because he was journalist > > > some don't forget > > > On May 22, 8:31 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> After all Daniel Pearl was one of their own. Does the death of one of > >> their own really mean so little to the media? > > >> Establishment Press Largely Covers Obama's Tracks on Disgraceful > >> Daniel Pearl Remark > >> > >> <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/05/22/establishment-press-largely-cover...> > > >> Filed under: MSM Biz/Other Bias > >> <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/msm-biz-bias/>, MSM Biz/Other > >> Ignorance <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/msm-biz-ignorance/>, Taxes > >> & Government <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/taxes-government/> --- > >> TBlumer @ 10:33 am > > >> DanielPearlInIslamistCaptorsVid2002President Barack Obama's statement > >> just before he signed the Freedom of the Press Act on Monday painfully > >> avoided reality to the point of giving offense. If it became widely > >> known, it would likely become very problematic. > > >> Here is what the President said > >> <http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-signing-...> > >> that was particularly offensive (bolds are mine): > > >> And obviously *the loss* of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments > >> that *captured the world's imagination* because it reminded us of > >> how valuable a free press is, and it reminded us that there are > >> those who would go to any length in order to silence journalists > >> around the world. > > >> Two key administration-protecting original news disseminators picked up > >> on the need to keep the bolded words out of their news coverage of the > >> event. The Associated Press, which usually (i.e., almost always) quotes > >> the president in related stories, provided no quotes in its terse > >> five-paragraph report > >> <http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h3WHtDXRETxBP2JN2_i...>, > >> the first four of which follow (for fair use and discussion purposes, of > >> course): > > >> *Obama signs Freedom of Press Act* > > >> President Barack Obama has signed a law intended to provide more > >> protections for a free press around the world. > > >> The law, the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act, expands efforts to > >> identify countries where press freedom is being violated. The law is > >> named after Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded > >> by militants in Pakistan in 2002. > > >> The law expands an annual report on human rights practices to > >> include information about media treatment, and identify countries > >> where the media is being repressed. > > >> Obama said the law would be a signal to governments around the world > >> that their actions, including treatment of the media, are being > >> watched. > > >> The New York Times's five-paragraph story > >> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/18press.html?scp=2&sq=daniel+...> > >> quoted other portions of Obama's statement: > > >> *U.S. to Promote Press Freedom* > > >> President Obama signed legislation on Monday intended to promote a > >> free press around the world, a bipartisan measure inspired by the > >> murder in Pakistan of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal > >> reporter, shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. > > >> ... The new law "puts us clearly on the side of journalistic > >> freedom," Mr. Obama said, praising Mr. Pearl's family for being > >> "outspoken and so courageous" in pursuing the cause. With the law, > >> the president added, "his legacy lives on." > > >> The less influential wire service AFP must not have gotten the memo, as > >> carried it the statement quoted above. Its 10-paragraph story > >> <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5glN6l4afLkwukZGjvR...> > >> also provided historical context AP and the Times avoided, as well as a > >> clearly superior headline: > > >> *Obama signs law honoring slain reporter Daniel Pearl* > > >> ..."The loss of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments that captured > >> the world's imagination because it reminded us how valuable a free > >> press is," Obama said. > > >> ... Pearl, 38, was the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street > >> Journal when he was abducted in Karachi on January 23, 2002 while > >> researching a story about Islamist militants. > > >> A graphic video showing his decapitation was delivered to the US > >> consulate in the city nearly a month later. > > >> Mariane Pearl was pregnant with their son when her husband was > >> murdered. > > >> In 2007, she filed a lawsuit Wednesday against 23 individuals and > >> organizations over the abduction and murder of Pearl, naming > >> Al-Qaeda, the group's alleged mastermind kingpin Khalid Sheikh > >> Mohammed --- who claimed responsibility for beheading Pearl and is > >> now in US custody --- and Pakistan's Habib Bank among the defendants. > > >> In his column > >> <http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/pearl-249812-daniel-obama.html> > >> today, Mark Steyn finishes the job AFP only began. As usual with Steyn, > >> read the whole thing. Here are selected paragraphs: > > >> ... its clumsiness and insipidness is most revealing. First of all, > >> note the passivity: "The loss of Daniel Pearl." He wasn't "lost." He > >> was kidnapped and beheaded. He was murdered on a snuff video. He was > >> specifically targeted, seized as a trophy, a high-value scalp. And > >> the circumstances of his "loss" merit some vigor in the prose. Yet > >> Obama can muster none. > > >> Even if Americans don't get the message, the rest of the world does. > >> This week's pictures of the leaders of Brazil and Turkey clasping > >> hands with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are also monuments to American > >> passivity. > > >> But what did the "loss" of Daniel Pearl mean? Well, says the > >> president, it was "one of those moments that captured the world's > >> imagination." Really? Evidently it never captured Obama's > >> imagination because, if it had, he could never have uttered anything > >> so fatuous. He seems literally unable to imagine Pearl's fate, and > >> so, cruising on autopilot, he reaches for the all-purpose bromides > >> of therapeutic sedation: "one of those moments" -- you know, like > >> Princess Di's wedding, Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction, > >> whatever -- "that captured the world's imagination." > > >> Notice how reflexively Obama lapses into sentimental one-worldism: > >> Despite our many zip codes, we are one people, with a single > >> imagination. In fact, the murder of Daniel Pearl teaches just the > >> opposite -- that we are many worlds, and worlds within worlds. Some > >> of them don't even need an "imagination." Across the planet, the > >> video of an American getting his head sawed off did brisk business > >> in the bazaars and madrassahs and Internet downloads. Excited young > >> men e-mailed it to friends, from cell phone to cell phone, from > >> Karachi to Jakarta to Khartoum to London to Toronto to Falls Church, > >> Virginia. In the old days, you needed an "imagination" to conjure > >> the juicy bits of a distant victory over the Great Satan. But in an > >> age of high-tech barbarism the sight of Pearl's severed head is a > >> mere click away. > > >> And the rest of "the world"? Most gave a shrug of indifference. And > >> far too many found the reality of Pearl's death too uncomfortable, > >> and chose to take refuge in the same kind of delusional pap as Obama. > > >> I daresay that if a Republican or conservative president had suggested > >> that the "loss" of Dr. Martin Luther King had "captured the world's > >> imagination," the AP and the Times would not have so deliberately > >> avoided such a statement, and would instead have eagerly sought out > >> others to criticize it. > > >> /Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org > >> <http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2010/05/22/establishment-pres...>. > >> / > > >> /http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/05/22/establishment-press-largely-cover... > >> / > > >> -- > >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > >> For options & help seehttp://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > >> * Visit our other community athttp://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > >> * It's active and moderated. 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