Sorry to say that but the west is a vicious criminal he proved it again and again and again, since 16 centuries he took the lead…he is driven mainly by greed and racism he took a religion that suit his vices … no accountability here or hereafter…salvation in the sacrifice of a third party or believing that he is a chosen party.., what I see in Palestine is pure racism… the Arab is less than the animal to the West….
Below is a complaint that I sent to the Australian ABC (Government broadcaster) complaining about what appears to be bias when using the word "massacre" in news stories.
They do not make it easy to extract the information so I only went back 9 years. The fact there are only 2 stories on massacres against Palestinians reported on in the last 9 years that use the actual term massacre blew my mind and just seems like a clear cut example of bias especially when the 2 articles in question are the only articles that have quotes surrounding the word "massacre"
Here is the link to the spreadsheet if anyone wants it for their own purposes.
My goal with this complaint is an attempt to get the government owned ABC in Australia (that is supposed to represent all of us) to treat all human beings exactly the same. News stories should be written the same way regardless as to the country/religion/culture of the people the story is about.
The word massacre has an actual definition and if that definition is or is not used based off the background of either the victims or the perpetrators then it is a practice that needs to be eliminated.
*******************************
Hello
My complaint is regarding systemic damaging bias based on the race of the people in the reported stories where the word “massacre” has been used in the heading/subheading and or content.
For many years I have trusted the ABC however in the last 12 months, I just had this suspicion that your news stories have been heavily manipulated (Mainly by omission) so I decided to do a little research on information readily available on your website.
I have enclosed a copy of my spreadsheet on the last 500+ times you ran a news story with the term "massacre" in it.
The other reason I am sending this is to see if there is a reasonable explanation for the issues found and failing that, the time will come when people in civilized societies will have to answer for what is happening right now and I want to ensure there is a paper trail so that you cannot do what the Germans did in the early 40s and pretend you did not know what was going on.
I was concerned at your lack of coverage of the numerous massacres that are occurring in Gaza right now, specifically because our government has provided material support to the organization carrying out the massacres.
Our government has deployed non combat personnel as well as aircraft in support of the Israel government which is indirectly helping them to carry out these massacres so that is one reason I am particularly interested in news regarding these massacres.
On top of that, Australian companies earn over 4 billion dollars in the form of maintaining the F-35 fighter jets that are tasked with eradicating the usually underaged, sandal wearing, water and food deprived enemy that are dangerously hiding in tents.
While I have no doubt they are a grave danger to both our way of life and the 5th generation fighters that unload on them at regular intervals, I am very concerned that as Australians, we are not getting the credit we deserve.
This is where you come in. I have enclosed a spreadsheet after researching your online database of news stories going back 9 years for the word "Massacre" because I know that there have been many massacres in Gaza recently, there were 4 in a single night over the weekend and yet nowhere on your site have you correctly headlined these news stories as massacres. Even the one where nearly 300 people were massacred, you do not use the word massacre.
I thought maybe you guys use a specific definition that is much more advanced so I have enclosed my definition which is the standard definition of a massacre so there is no confusion. I left the third definition in there so that if the ABC considers them animals, you can see that it should still be defined as a massacre.
1: the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty
2: a cruel or wanton murder
3: a wholesale slaughter of animals
4: an act of complete destruction
Questions
Of the 500+ articles I have found written by the ABC over the last 9 years, only two articles mention massacre and Gaza in the same article. While the number of articles is disturbing enough, the fact both articles have the word "massacre" in quotes is a disgrace.
Almost no other articles use a quote around words and I was confused as to why this would be done because on the surface, whenever I see that, I automatically think the story is not to be trusted and the reporter is intentionally conveying to me, the audience, that the information should not be trusted.
Turns out that is why you do it seems, quotes around words like massacre are used as a tool for media bias.
Is there another reason that you put the word massacre in quotes when you do a news story about Gaza?
When 4 hostages were rescued several weeks ago that ended in the massacre of nearly 300 innocent people, mainly children, why didn't you put massacre in the headline or anywhere in the story?
Why are you limiting the number of stories regarding the massacres and human catastrophe happening in Gaza as I have demonstrated especially where Australian companies are so heavily involved in the massacres in that they maintain critical systems directly related to the killing such as the bomb bay doors on the F-35 fighter jets?
Summary Of 10 Years Of ABC Massacre stories
These are every story that appears using the search term 'Massacre" in the last 9 years. Once I get a spare minute, I am going to create some really pretty graphs that will really drive home the ABCs lack of reporting on a news story that is current, ongoing and involves funding from both Australian private and public sectors.
At this point I have left out smaller massacres in the attached image, a full list can be found in the attached spreadsheet, but this should give you an idea of the bias the ABC is undertaking.
From my point of view it appears like the ABC is actively misrepresenting stories so that they appear unimportant and yet putting heavy emphasis on relatively small massacres that occurred sometimes hundreds of years ago.
What is the deal with the fetishism of Tiananmen square? There are even more articles on that than Port Arthur that use the word massacre somewhere in either the heading/sub heading and or content and yet it is ancient history, you must really care a lot for the Chinese.....
There is one unavoidable fact from this information apart from the obvious extreme bias and manipulation going on and that is you love to talk about historical massacres, it seems anything that we cannot do anything about or a normal person would not feel shame for because they were not born is headline news while atrocities that are occurring right now are ignored. It really is a disgrace.
I have never felt shame for anything that happened before I was alive or had the inability to do something about. I feel shame now though along with disgust and revulsion at a good portion of our society.
Perhaps if the ABC did its job and reported on the news without hiding information then our society would care a lot more about the industrial slaughter happening with weapons such as the F-35 that without Australian assistance would be unable to function.
They will read about this period in the history books and people will study the contemporary reporters asking the same question we asked as we grew up about the Nazis every time a documentary on the Holocaust is shown "How could they know what was going on and do nothing"
In the defense of 1940s Germans, even if they watched a trainload of prisoners dismount in the morning and got a whiff of something unpleasant from suspicious looking chimneys in the afternoon, they did not have almost real time HD video of the slaughter day in day out.....
In summary
I would like an answer as to:
1) why in the 2 times in 9 years that Gaza and massacre were used in the same news article, quotes were used around the word “massacre” when no other news articles exhibit this pattern?
2) Why are there only 2 articles in 9 years where Gaza and massacre are used when there have been dozens of serious massacres that have very high death tolls of unarmed and innocent people?
3) Why are there almost no articles on Gaza massacres when the people carrying out the massacres are our allies and both private and government sectors in Australia are heavily involved in providing material support to the large scale slaughter of innocent people made up of a significant number of children?
4) Do stories that involve Australian companies and government support generally have a higher level of interest compared to something like The Tiananmen square massacre in which we were not involved at all? If so then why are there almost no stories on these events using suitable language and with which you commonly use for other stories?
It’s not true that all the candidates E shrugging their shoulders. Within all of the parties there are candidates ailing to speak up for Gaza, especially in Scotland. People should not be looking at parties as a whole but at their local candidates. Vote for Gaza supporters and they will form the next parliament. No government can rule without parliamentary approval in the UK so the more pro Pals in Labour, the less power Starmer has.
The greatest impediment to justice, to the nightly cries of suffering children, is most often that horrible part of the human person from whence indifference sprouts. No sin is so abhorrent, and yet in crawls from the core of so many of us. During this election, the cries and suffering of so many are forgotten even though its been aided by a willing political class. Indifference is the garment of choice worn lavishly by these men as they seek the votes to continue their meek adherence to the Israeli killings.
George Galloway will. He has formed a party to contest the drones of the two cretins who blunder along heading the sick, worthless Tory and Labour parties. The English people don't need those two whoring gangs, tied to vicious, imbecile Big Money, who do less than nothing for them.
Who will step up for the children of Gaza? And for everyone else for that matter.
I hope people will vote outside the box in the UK and in the USA. The leaders and policies of all policies are just unacceptable, and there are other, much better, alternatives.
Good-good-good on Jonathan Cook! Good on Matthew Alford! Sad, sad, sad for the hapless Palestinian people...anger, anger and more anger for the heartless bas*ards in "charge."
Political/Militant Colonial/Genocidal Zionism must be abolished along with the demonic ideology's equally demonic agents and complicit actors (Bumbling Biden: YOU among them)!)
Humans have always been cruel it comes naturally and is reinforced by ego... When your prejudices overule you humanity... And you've convinced yourself you're right. Good people doing bad things. And calling themselves civilised.
I think it's important to point out that, besides these mostly white British men (no disrespect intended) standing against Labour candidates, there are also numerous Muslim men and women, such as Jody Mcintyre (standing against Jess Phillips in a Birmingham Yardley), Shockat Adam (standing against Jonathan Ashworth in Leicester South), Halima Khan, a Labour Party whistle-blower who was a key figure in Al Jazeera's The Labour Files documentary (standing in Stratford and Bow) and Leanne Mohammed, a British Palestinian (standing against Wes Streeting in Ilford North). They all have loads of talent and commitment to bring to the political sphere and I hope they can give a real shock to the status quo system.
Read what I said. Terrible things are happening in Faza. Hamas decided to steal all the money to fight a war, and use their citizens as pawns. If you dare about Palestinians, make Hamas surrender.
Sorry to say that but the west is a vicious criminal he proved it again and again and again, since 16 centuries he took the lead…he is driven mainly by greed and racism he took a religion that suit his vices … no accountability here or hereafter…salvation in the sacrifice of a third party or believing that he is a chosen party.., what I see in Palestine is pure racism… the Arab is less than the animal to the West….
Certainly the Israeli army is not "one of the most criminal armies in the world": IT IS THE MOST CRIMINAL ARMY IN THE WORLD.
thank you - wish I had read it earlier and posted round all my friends and acquaintances
Below is a complaint that I sent to the Australian ABC (Government broadcaster) complaining about what appears to be bias when using the word "massacre" in news stories.
They do not make it easy to extract the information so I only went back 9 years. The fact there are only 2 stories on massacres against Palestinians reported on in the last 9 years that use the actual term massacre blew my mind and just seems like a clear cut example of bias especially when the 2 articles in question are the only articles that have quotes surrounding the word "massacre"
Here is the link to the spreadsheet if anyone wants it for their own purposes.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GaGBUAys-91LFOcHBNGEJ-ee_M2b-3r6/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107983999910327932790&rtpof=true&sd=true
My goal with this complaint is an attempt to get the government owned ABC in Australia (that is supposed to represent all of us) to treat all human beings exactly the same. News stories should be written the same way regardless as to the country/religion/culture of the people the story is about.
The word massacre has an actual definition and if that definition is or is not used based off the background of either the victims or the perpetrators then it is a practice that needs to be eliminated.
*******************************
Hello
My complaint is regarding systemic damaging bias based on the race of the people in the reported stories where the word “massacre” has been used in the heading/subheading and or content.
For many years I have trusted the ABC however in the last 12 months, I just had this suspicion that your news stories have been heavily manipulated (Mainly by omission) so I decided to do a little research on information readily available on your website.
I have enclosed a copy of my spreadsheet on the last 500+ times you ran a news story with the term "massacre" in it.
The other reason I am sending this is to see if there is a reasonable explanation for the issues found and failing that, the time will come when people in civilized societies will have to answer for what is happening right now and I want to ensure there is a paper trail so that you cannot do what the Germans did in the early 40s and pretend you did not know what was going on.
I was concerned at your lack of coverage of the numerous massacres that are occurring in Gaza right now, specifically because our government has provided material support to the organization carrying out the massacres.
Our government has deployed non combat personnel as well as aircraft in support of the Israel government which is indirectly helping them to carry out these massacres so that is one reason I am particularly interested in news regarding these massacres.
On top of that, Australian companies earn over 4 billion dollars in the form of maintaining the F-35 fighter jets that are tasked with eradicating the usually underaged, sandal wearing, water and food deprived enemy that are dangerously hiding in tents.
While I have no doubt they are a grave danger to both our way of life and the 5th generation fighters that unload on them at regular intervals, I am very concerned that as Australians, we are not getting the credit we deserve.
This is where you come in. I have enclosed a spreadsheet after researching your online database of news stories going back 9 years for the word "Massacre" because I know that there have been many massacres in Gaza recently, there were 4 in a single night over the weekend and yet nowhere on your site have you correctly headlined these news stories as massacres. Even the one where nearly 300 people were massacred, you do not use the word massacre.
I thought maybe you guys use a specific definition that is much more advanced so I have enclosed my definition which is the standard definition of a massacre so there is no confusion. I left the third definition in there so that if the ABC considers them animals, you can see that it should still be defined as a massacre.
1: the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty
2: a cruel or wanton murder
3: a wholesale slaughter of animals
4: an act of complete destruction
Questions
Of the 500+ articles I have found written by the ABC over the last 9 years, only two articles mention massacre and Gaza in the same article. While the number of articles is disturbing enough, the fact both articles have the word "massacre" in quotes is a disgrace.
Almost no other articles use a quote around words and I was confused as to why this would be done because on the surface, whenever I see that, I automatically think the story is not to be trusted and the reporter is intentionally conveying to me, the audience, that the information should not be trusted.
Turns out that is why you do it seems, quotes around words like massacre are used as a tool for media bias.
Is there another reason that you put the word massacre in quotes when you do a news story about Gaza?
https://www.batesline.com/archives/000478.html
When 4 hostages were rescued several weeks ago that ended in the massacre of nearly 300 innocent people, mainly children, why didn't you put massacre in the headline or anywhere in the story?
Why are you limiting the number of stories regarding the massacres and human catastrophe happening in Gaza as I have demonstrated especially where Australian companies are so heavily involved in the massacres in that they maintain critical systems directly related to the killing such as the bomb bay doors on the F-35 fighter jets?
Summary Of 10 Years Of ABC Massacre stories
These are every story that appears using the search term 'Massacre" in the last 9 years. Once I get a spare minute, I am going to create some really pretty graphs that will really drive home the ABCs lack of reporting on a news story that is current, ongoing and involves funding from both Australian private and public sectors.
At this point I have left out smaller massacres in the attached image, a full list can be found in the attached spreadsheet, but this should give you an idea of the bias the ABC is undertaking.
From my point of view it appears like the ABC is actively misrepresenting stories so that they appear unimportant and yet putting heavy emphasis on relatively small massacres that occurred sometimes hundreds of years ago.
What is the deal with the fetishism of Tiananmen square? There are even more articles on that than Port Arthur that use the word massacre somewhere in either the heading/sub heading and or content and yet it is ancient history, you must really care a lot for the Chinese.....
There is one unavoidable fact from this information apart from the obvious extreme bias and manipulation going on and that is you love to talk about historical massacres, it seems anything that we cannot do anything about or a normal person would not feel shame for because they were not born is headline news while atrocities that are occurring right now are ignored. It really is a disgrace.
I have never felt shame for anything that happened before I was alive or had the inability to do something about. I feel shame now though along with disgust and revulsion at a good portion of our society.
Perhaps if the ABC did its job and reported on the news without hiding information then our society would care a lot more about the industrial slaughter happening with weapons such as the F-35 that without Australian assistance would be unable to function.
They will read about this period in the history books and people will study the contemporary reporters asking the same question we asked as we grew up about the Nazis every time a documentary on the Holocaust is shown "How could they know what was going on and do nothing"
In the defense of 1940s Germans, even if they watched a trainload of prisoners dismount in the morning and got a whiff of something unpleasant from suspicious looking chimneys in the afternoon, they did not have almost real time HD video of the slaughter day in day out.....
In summary
I would like an answer as to:
1) why in the 2 times in 9 years that Gaza and massacre were used in the same news article, quotes were used around the word “massacre” when no other news articles exhibit this pattern?
2) Why are there only 2 articles in 9 years where Gaza and massacre are used when there have been dozens of serious massacres that have very high death tolls of unarmed and innocent people?
3) Why are there almost no articles on Gaza massacres when the people carrying out the massacres are our allies and both private and government sectors in Australia are heavily involved in providing material support to the large scale slaughter of innocent people made up of a significant number of children?
4) Do stories that involve Australian companies and government support generally have a higher level of interest compared to something like The Tiananmen square massacre in which we were not involved at all? If so then why are there almost no stories on these events using suitable language and with which you commonly use for other stories?
It’s not true that all the candidates E shrugging their shoulders. Within all of the parties there are candidates ailing to speak up for Gaza, especially in Scotland. People should not be looking at parties as a whole but at their local candidates. Vote for Gaza supporters and they will form the next parliament. No government can rule without parliamentary approval in the UK so the more pro Pals in Labour, the less power Starmer has.
Guess they shouldn’t have fucked with Israel, huh?
The greatest impediment to justice, to the nightly cries of suffering children, is most often that horrible part of the human person from whence indifference sprouts. No sin is so abhorrent, and yet in crawls from the core of so many of us. During this election, the cries and suffering of so many are forgotten even though its been aided by a willing political class. Indifference is the garment of choice worn lavishly by these men as they seek the votes to continue their meek adherence to the Israeli killings.
George Galloway will. He has formed a party to contest the drones of the two cretins who blunder along heading the sick, worthless Tory and Labour parties. The English people don't need those two whoring gangs, tied to vicious, imbecile Big Money, who do less than nothing for them.
Who will step up for the children of Gaza? And for everyone else for that matter.
I hope people will vote outside the box in the UK and in the USA. The leaders and policies of all policies are just unacceptable, and there are other, much better, alternatives.
Good-good-good on Jonathan Cook! Good on Matthew Alford! Sad, sad, sad for the hapless Palestinian people...anger, anger and more anger for the heartless bas*ards in "charge."
Political/Militant Colonial/Genocidal Zionism must be abolished along with the demonic ideology's equally demonic agents and complicit actors (Bumbling Biden: YOU among them)!)
Humans have always been cruel it comes naturally and is reinforced by ego... When your prejudices overule you humanity... And you've convinced yourself you're right. Good people doing bad things. And calling themselves civilised.
I think it's important to point out that, besides these mostly white British men (no disrespect intended) standing against Labour candidates, there are also numerous Muslim men and women, such as Jody Mcintyre (standing against Jess Phillips in a Birmingham Yardley), Shockat Adam (standing against Jonathan Ashworth in Leicester South), Halima Khan, a Labour Party whistle-blower who was a key figure in Al Jazeera's The Labour Files documentary (standing in Stratford and Bow) and Leanne Mohammed, a British Palestinian (standing against Wes Streeting in Ilford North). They all have loads of talent and commitment to bring to the political sphere and I hope they can give a real shock to the status quo system.
Heads up: there is no genocide by Israel.
That's what they say about the holocaust too but people with double digit IQ can see the chimps who spruik that crap.
It just means you lack humanity just like the neo Nazis that deny the holocaust and pretend to know more than the rest of us.
You are the same as them.
Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up, let's all stop talking about Palestine now because this guy said nothing is happening there.
Read what I said. Terrible things are happening in Faza. Hamas decided to steal all the money to fight a war, and use their citizens as pawns. If you dare about Palestinians, make Hamas surrender.
Where's Faza?
By the way there is a genocide currently going on in Gaza and the West Bank.
Hamas agreed to a deal. Israel refused. Go figure.
Uhm, you may want to go back and check your source of information.
Hmmm…….Two very different responses…….🤔
I agree with every word.
I cheered back in January at the ICJ decision......but It's like nothing was passed according to the mainstream media..
Somehow, within this genocide, the largest and wealthiest are still outmanouvering the truth.
Human sacrifice is now being institutionalized. "The current barbarism at the heart of western politics has been turned into a non-issue."