Tuesday, January 06, 2009

The Media Creates The Gaza Narrative Out Of Thin Air

More evidence the media is directing the impression of GAZA like a movie:

• Israeli shells slam into Gaza as troops near population centers

Near population centers? But, but, I thought GAZA was the most densely populated region on the planet . . .?

Meryl Yourish can be heard tearing this media fantasy apart on Shire News Network near marker 33 Podcast 154 Goes Back into Gaza

Fallacy number 3: Gaza is the most crowded place on earth. Bullshit
*Gaza has about 4200 people per square kilometer. 
*Singapore and Hong Kong have more than 6000. 
*If you count the suburbs of Tel Aviv, there are more than 5,000 people per square kilometer in THAT city. 
*Mumbai, over 27,000 . . .
*Calcutta, 24,000. 
*Moscow
*Tokyo, 
*Warsaw and 
*London all have more people per square kilometer than Gaza.

[source: 
Stephen Pollard in the Spectator, April 24th, 2008]

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