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Israel official charges CNN not objective

by CHICAGO (JPS) -- Israel is "unhappy" with CNN's coverage of the current wave of violence, a senior official in the Prime Ministe, Israel feels that the coverage has not been objective, partly because CNN -- due to its own security considerations -- is relyin

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The source also charged that CNN is not giving equal time to pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli spokesmen, and is not accurately translating inciting Arabic signs and statements, even when those signs and statements appear on the screen.

Some of the international media "are saying that we are killing children, shooting at stone-throwers," charged a senior official in Barak's office. "What we want to do is present a different picture." This will be done, he said, by providing various media outlets with film showing that reality is not always as simple as it may appear in a short film clip or still picture.


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