Comments on: So, suddenly Israel isn’t a story anymore?

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:42:10 +0000

Bravo to the people of Israel. For being united and one people. We have alot to learn here in the West.

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:37:20 +0000

The Corporate Media would not want to give the rest of the world any ideas……we are all in the same boat but we sit and do nothing.

Wake up people!!!!

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:09:07 +0000

ok, not the opener :

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,778798,00.html
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/israel1088.html
http://www.zeit.de/2011/32/Israel-Proteste

….

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:19:38 +0000

Is it possible you think Israel is so important it should captivate our attention at all times?

By: Emanuele

Emanuele — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:44:29 +0000

I ended up on this website (amazing project…congrats) because I was looking for info. Today NYTimes online: nothing. Today National Public Radio (USA): nothing. Today ANSA online (Italy): nothing. I don’t think that Israel is not a story anymore, I think that Israel’s protest is a story that nobody wants to cover or emphasize (at least in the US). Thanks for informing us. You got another reader and supporter

By: Borg

Borg — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:22:25 +0000

Its not worth covering. As soon as it begins to rain, your tents will disappear.

By: Dr.Bill

Dr.Bill — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:18:19 +0000

The BBC has finally gotten around to reporting on this story. I saw it on the TV station and it is also on their website at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14344515

By: Dr.Bill

Dr.Bill — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:03:01 +0000

Well, I still haven’t seen any coverage in the US MSM. Even if the NYTImes has finally seen fit to cover the story somewhere in the paper. Sometimes I think the NYTimes should alter their logo from “All The News That’s Fit to Print” to “All the news that fits, we print”.
But aside from that, the overwhelming majority of the American public DOES NOT READ THE NEW YORK TIMES either because the print is too small or some of the words are too big.
Many people do look at the Huffington Post as a news portal,so as to search for where stories are not only in the US but in other parts of the world. Most of the Huffposts stories when clicked on are from other news sources. Moreover, these referred stories are included in the center column on its home page. It was BURIED in the business section.
Yet to the vast majority, the “news” is what they get on ABC, NBC and CBS. On the evening broadcasts, two of the networks, the two with the much higher ratings, NBC and ABC after the extensive coverage of the debt ceiling circus, did a international news story. Remarkably both had foreign correspondents in Mogadishu, Somalia showing people who are starving and living in tent cities, and especially on ABC the report was treated as a “tearjerker”.
If these reports keep coming in, I see it as a preparation so that the American people will understand when the US armed forces intervene there for “humanitarian reasons”.
I’m waiting on that to see if I’m right or wrong.

By: Taoist

Taoist — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:44:11 +0000

SYLVIA,

The subject was Saturday’s demo, which I expected to be front page on Sunday morning. The rockets were launched today (Monday). A non-sequitor.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:11:47 +0000

Well at least in England we have this thing called the silly season which lasts from mid/late July through to late August or early September, during which our political and media elite all disappear to holiday in Tuscany or the Dordogne.

Typically junior underlings are left to run the newspapers and TV news shows for the whole of this period and these are far too lacking in confidence and resources to show much interest in foreign political stories which do not fit easily into the preferred ideological mode of their publications.

So if its about Israel but not about bombs and rockets and assassinations and settlements they literally don’t know what to do about it – so play safe and don’t make a big deal of it at all.

So you’ve really got to up the ante and turn it into The Israeli Summer if you want the mass media here to notice it at all.