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"AP'S SNOW JOB"

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Dear Member,

Take a look at the following photo caption from the Associated Press,
and see if you can pick out the one word of bias:

"A Jewish man prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in east
Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday Feb. 25, 2003. About 7 inches of snow has
fallen in a rare snow storm that swept across Israel, closing major
highways and schools and cutting power."
http://honestreporting.com/a/r/352.asp 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030225/168/3cx2x.html

The word is "east" Jerusalem. The caption could just have easily read
without that word: "the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in
Jerusalem's Old City." By adding the word "east" Jerusalem, AP subtly
suggests that the Western Wall is part of disputed territory, open to
negotiations to be given to Palestinians.

Such politicizing has no place in a caption about a snowstorm.

The bias is subtle, but there nonetheless. And that makes it all the
more insidious. 

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