Media's Inaccurate Call on Florida

A few hours before dawn Wednesday, the nation's TV networks foisted their second outrageous blunder of the night on the American people. After "calling" the state of Florida for Al Gore earlier in the evening, the same networks announced that George W. Bush had won Florida and the White House. With a typical flourish, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw declared: "George Bush is the president-elect of the United States." But before the sun rose on the …

…lands is omitted from the media's coverage, Palestinian rock-throwing is made to look like random aggression, and Israel's use of lethal weaponry can be portrayed as a legitimate response to provocation. The real status of Israel's presence was explained by the United Nations Security Council last month, when it unanimously called upon Israel, the occupying power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations under the Geneva Conventions to protect human rights in the occupied territories.