Reply #1: This was a major part of Democracy Now! today

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"...We continue our coverage of the situation in the Middle East by examining how the U.S. press has been reporting on Lebanon, Israel and Gaza. Some have suggested that America is watching a different war than much of the world. The British journalist Julian Borger came to that conclusion after watching the news in Washington and London.

The British press, he said, overwhelmingly emphasized the civilian casualties in Lebanon. Meanwhile the U.S. media has focused on the situation in Israeli cities like Haifa. Meanwhile some journalists from the Middle East are now refusing to work with American news outlets.

Earlier this week, two producers working for Fox News in Amman Jordan resigned in protest. In their resignation letter, Serene Sabbagh and Jomana Karadsheh wrote "We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that."

They went on to write “Not only are you an instrument of the Bush White House, and Israeli propaganda, you are war mongers with no sense of decency, nor professionalism.”

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/1359222

Also:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=226619&mesg_id=226619

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I think this is something that people need to understand. The US is being isolated from the rest of the world - because of the intense propaganda that takes place here.

It may be part of keeping the US supporting Israel - it also ends up putting at odds at the rest of the world.