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SOMETIMES A ROCKET IS JUST A ROCKET
An ABC headline:
Rocket kills 10 Afghan civilians
Thereafter follows this story: “At least 10 civilians were killed when rockets fired by the Taliban at a US-led military base in eastern Afghanistan fell short and landed on their homes, officials said.” But look at the ABC’s initial headline, noted by alert reader Kaboom and helpfully preserved by Google (and by the ABC itself):
US rocket kills 10 Afghan civilians
Question for the ABC: why was the weapon’s source not identified in the corrected headline?
Easy: UnServiceable rocket. But usually abbreviated U/S.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 09 01 at 04:24 PM • permalinkIt is a US rocket you morons. Wasn’t it aimed at a US base? It was a gift from the Taliban to the US. Last time I checked, the recipient of a gift is the owner!
Sheez!
Posted by ElectronPower on 2007 09 01 at 04:58 PM • permalinkLike reese in #2, I’d like to hear the Ozzie ABC answer the question. But since I expect nothing but crickets from those scoundrels, I’ll settle for what everyone else said.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 01 at 05:10 PM • permalinkRemember the old argument regarding gun control - “Guns don’t kill people - people kill people”?
The ABC is clearly now in favour of rocket control since rockets kill people, rather than people killing people.
Next time our guys blat some Taliban, I look forward to a headline like “4 Steyrs, a Minimi, some 500kg bombs and a 20mm cannon kill 20 Taliban”
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 09 01 at 05:17 PM • permalinkIf you peruse the ABC stories in Afghanistan, you’ll find one titled Diggers shoot Afghan driver.
Another is Afghan children wounded by Aussie soldier.
A fairly typical headline regarding the Taliban killing civilians is 17 civlians dead in Afghanistan blast. Note that the ‘17 civilians’ is encased in quotation marks, probably because the ABC believes it is base propaganda put out by NATO to discredit the Taliban.
So this is pretty normal behaviour by the ABC - according to the ABC, all western military action has to be painted in the darkest possible terms.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 09 01 at 06:07 PM • permalinkCan we work in a Red Cross Ambulance somewhere here - with reuters supplying the pics?
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 09 01 at 07:09 PM • permalinkReckon Media Watch will hammer them for this one? Or will there be an analysis of statistics which ‘proves’ that if the US led base wasn’t there in the first place, the casulaties wouldn’t have been incurred.
Oh, and I will wait patiently to see the ABC follow the TB investigation into this tragedy.
Insiders transcript will be here in a few hours.Then a few hours later the video will be here.
They interviewed bone-dome/slap-head in Tassie.Well if the Australian Navy were to board and capture Japanese whaling vessels on the high seas, or sink them by gunfire, for the heinous crime of taking whales, Australia would be at war with Japan, legally at any rate. So slapping the capatain with a tuna might be the only thing to do.
Oops, can’t use a tuna, because of the tuna fishermen killing dolphins. What to do…what to do…?
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 09 01 at 07:57 PM • permalink#23 #22 This is unlikely to be covered by media botch due, as they don’t cover anything which has a downside for the ROP.
Something to do with presbyterians in the Media Botch research dept or something like that.
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2007 09 01 at 08:18 PM • permalinkHm. Secret Jew Rockets would make a great name for a band.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 09 01 at 08:52 PM • permalinkA question for the ABC Online editors, via the feedback form.
Clicking the link above will take you to a Google News aggregated results page. The result for the term ‘us rocket kills 10’ shows just one result, leading to an ABC News Online story from AFP. The story content related to a misjudged attack by terrorist forces in Afghanistan, where a rocket (alleged by AFP) from US forces struck a house and killed 10 civilians.
The story had NOTHING to do with a United States military rocket weapon system, just that Taliban elements had successfully killed innocent Afghani’s in a botched attempt to attack US forces. Although even this could be construed to be an assumption, as there a range of coalition forces in the country, as well as Afghan National Police and Army elements that are in constant conflict with the Taliban as well.
Another disgraceful display of ostensible bias by the ABC. It is noted that the original story headline has been changed to remove any implication of country of origin. Unfortunately for your online editors, unless you delete the entire archive, Google will cache the original story on it’s server, showing the history of another botched attempt to rewrite history.
It would be usual to expect a correction, but as this is the ABC, no harm, no foul. Your usual readership would understand that US forces would “probably” do this kind of thing anyway, and it bespeaks a larger reality, even if the actual facts don’t reflect it.
I’m once again so very pleased that my tax dollars are hard at work funding this drivel. Keep up your exemplary standards ABC, it’s a pleasure to read what I pay for. </sarcasm>I wait with bated breath for a response. The ABC editors may have to debate these points enmasse to clarify their positions.
Why is the assumption made the rocket wasnt targeting civilians anyway? Its not as though the taliban have been shy about wholesale slaughters of them before.
Shut the ABC, its a totally irrelevant organisation nowadays.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 01 at 09:42 PM • permalinkYouse are all never gonna know if no rockets come from us ‘cause me and me cousins always file the serial numbers off everyfin’ mate.
We file the numbers off twenties and fifties out of ATMs. No boolshit mate, Ahmed even filed all the numbers off the sidewalls of the CRV last night, smokin’ it up on Canterbury Road.
Fully sick, mate!
Too late for their deadline will be the excuse.
Plenty of time to talk about horse whisperers though ...
#9 I think you will find it was a “rocket of no appearance”.
Posted by Hump B Bare on 2007 09 05 at 01:36 AM • permalink
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Because, you reactionary fossil, if it’s not an American rocket, or a Secret Jew Rocket, it’s OBVIOUSLY scientifically impossible to determine where it came from!