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The director of Israel's Government Press Office fired off a letter to CNN's Jerusalem Bureau Chief Sunday demanding an apology for a story on CNN's website that put "terror attack" in quotation marks in the headline of its story on Friday night's atrocity in Itamar.

Responding to the story headlined "Israeli Family of 5 Killed in 'Terror Attack,' Military Says," Oren Helman wrote Kevin Flower that he was "dumbfounded and astonished" to read that the slaughter of the Fogel family is "what the Israeli army calls a 'terrorist attack'."

"Your remarks sound as if we are talking about an IDF 'claim' that this was 'a terrorist attack' and that this is not necessarily the case," he wrote. "If this is not a terrorist attack, then what is?" Helman, saying that "there is a limit to the extent of objectivity regarding such a horrific deed," and requested an apology from CNN.

CNN International, in response, said that it does not respond in public to private correspondence. The news organization did issue a statement saying, however, that it was "standard journalistic practice for news organizations to put quotation marks around remarks attributed to third parties

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Original piece is http://israelinsider.net/profiles/blogs/israel-complains-that-cnn-used?xg_source=msg_mes_network

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The Israeli complaint will be treated with the same contempt that was displayed toward Jewish suffering and pain. Kick out that journo and tell CNN that if they send hostile second raters they will have a lot of transport costs. Reporters whose ideological commitment to pally protecting PC prevents them from stating the obvious, are not worth having around.

Posted by paul2 on 2011-03-16 09:32:04 GMT

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