20 July 2006
no standards
I must admit to buying the Evening Standard quite often. Not because I think it's any good, obviously, just out of some sick thing to do with what the big other thinks London is. Won't be doing that in future.
From isakofsky on Lenin's Tomb comments: 'I think the world's worst front page award has just been won by this evening's London newspaper the Evening Standard. The headline is 'Human Sandbags', Note the quotation marks indicating (kind of) that it's a quote from someone. Inside we discover that it's a quote from Amos Oz who 'fears' that Hiz. are using civilians as shields. Not are using them as shields but 'fears'. The huge picture on the front page is of a man carrying a dying child, blood etc and something about x number of civilians dead.
The implication of the whole, is that this bloke is carrying a child who has been used as a human sandbag. Only after much picking do we discover that this is a hunch from a 'left' (ahem ahem) zionist Amos Oz from his vantage point in Israel.'
The fact that the entire front cover makes no mention of the fact that Israel might have something to do with the 'more than 100 child victims in Lebanon', merely presenting this picture of someone holding up a (presumably dead) child, as if they had personally just used him or her as a 'shield', as isakofsky points out, is beyond shameful. The Amos Oz piece is entitled, by the way: 'Why Israeli missles strike for peace'.
UPDATE: A link from Galloway on his 'Comment is Free' Guardian page!
