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Grex > Agora41 > #37: What can be done in the middle east? | |
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lk
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response 600 of 604:
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Jun 24 06:14 UTC 2002 |
Anne:
> Bias doesn't have to be blinding.
I agree, but some of my critics here seem to think that because I'm biased
my opinions aren't valid, I shouldn't speak them, and/or that others
shouldn't listen because I'm just a "zealot".
What does "man bites dog" mean? I'll tell you. In the past 21 months, there
have been about a dozen acts (or attempts) of vigilante Jewish terrorism
against Arabs. Each one has been a headline precisely because it is rare.
In the same time period, there have been 13,000 acts of Arab terrorism in
Israel (while none have been of the magnitude of 9/11, there was the
cartoon depicting an Israeli calendar where every day was the 11th).
Obviously most of these acts of terrorism aren't even reported in the
western press. Only those with multiple fatalities make the news.
Yet if Israeli troops kill an innocent by-stander during a 9-hour gunfight
with armed gunmen, or if Israel pre-emptively kills a terrorist known to
be in the act of planning an attack not only does it make the news -- it's
a headline.
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mooncat
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response 601 of 604:
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Jun 24 18:11 UTC 2002 |
Actually what I meant was, where does the phrase itself come from? Your
example helps a bit, but could you use a non-Middle Eastern one, just
to help me understand it in other terms?
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lk
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response 602 of 604:
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Jun 24 22:56 UTC 2002 |
I'm not sure what you're asking; "man bites dog" is an English journalism
reference, not a translation of a middle-eastern phrase.
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russ
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response 603 of 604:
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Jun 25 01:38 UTC 2002 |
Re #601: It comes from an editor of an American newspaper telling
someone on his staff, "When man bites dog, THAT'S news."
Kind of like a few people dying in a plane crash is reported
internationally, while ten times as many people dying in a week of
individual auto accidents attract no large-scale attention at all.
The latter is "dog bites man", and only the locals care.
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mooncat
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response 604 of 604:
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Jun 26 21:05 UTC 2002 |
Okay! Now it actually makes sense. Leeron- I knew it wasn't a Middle
Eastern phrase- I just didn't know what it meant (not being really
knowledgeable on journalis phrases either)
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