Forty thousand people took to the streets of Manhattan on Sunday to participate in the Celebrate Israel Parade. Forty thousand marchers, both Jews, and non-Jews, including New York Mayor Eric Adams, expressed their support for the Jewish state.
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Wearing colorful clothes and waving Israeli flags, they took time out of their lives to celebrate Israel, whose existence they hold dear. But if you watched Channel 12 News reporting on the event, you would not know any of this.
Although the outlet did cover the parade, the angle it chose to present was very specific. It did not speak about the support and the celebration but rather focused on the anti-judicial reform protest that was held at the same time.
Organizers said that around 1,000 people attended the demonstration, but journalists marching with the parade in Manhattan, who reported in real time, did not even realize that any protests were taking place, because they were swallowed up by the cheering crowd.
Footage of the demonstration showed about a dozen participants and even photographs posted by the organizers themselves, who claimed there were 1,000 attendees, featured maybe half that number.
Relying on the organizers, Channel 12 News too reported on "1,000 protesters," without verifying the number first. Unfortunately, this is nothing new, as we have become accustomed to protesters spewing out unsubstantiated numbers, with the media reporting it as absolute truth.
But even if there were 1,000 demonstrators at the event, that number still pales in comparison to the 40,000 paraders who arrived to cheer for Israel. Why focus on the minority again and again and ignore the majority? Why not tell the real news story?
Given left-wing media reports in recent months, we have become accustomed to their all-out war on the judicial reform. Viewers are no longer surprised when they see biased coverage.
A pro-Israel event is not reported on, or reported on in a distorted manner, because it might create an impression that there are people out there who actually support Israel, and the country is not, in fact, collapsing economically, and that, Heaven forbid, the Coalition is actually functioning.
Unfortunately, viewers rarely get to see what did not make it into the news reports. But in the case of the Celebrate Israel Parade, it is a vivid example of how an event is exploited to fit a particular narrative.
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