I often criticize the New York Times on this site, in fact I am about to get out my rusty Judy Miller popgun later for the Scott McClellan story. But today we really must celebrate the Times. Yesterday it ran Ethan Bronner's superb report on the U.S. State Department withdrawing 7 Fulbright grants to young Palestinians because the Israeli siege of Gaza won't let them go. And not just ran the story: but ran it across five colums at the top of the front page, with a huge photograph of a doelike Palestinian woman who cannot come here to study. Hearts and minds in one shot! The Israel Policy Forum promptly blasted the blockade. And now JTA is reporting that Condi Rice is looking into the outrage.
Glory be to the Times. Here is the greatest newspaper in the world using all its power to change things. I know, you say, what about reporting on cluster bombs in Lebanon or the siege of Gaza, or the widespread support for "transfer" in the Israeli polity. What about Bill Kristol and Friedman and Brooks rationalizing the cycle of violence. Patience, patience. The world is changing, and yesterday's noble decision by the Times editors was in fact licensed by us, by Jimmy Carter, by Walt and Mearsheimer, by the stirring shifting spinning tectonic plates of the discourse...
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It's the very use of the word 'transfer' without quotes which identifies someone as a Israeli bigot: a euphemism reflecting desire or enablement.
The NYT is by no stretch of the imagination "the greatest newspaper in the world", Phil, far from it. One the most influential, perhaps, but that only makes it all the more the pity it is so crap.
Otherwise, stirring stuff.
And do see this image of the Wall from Richard Silverstein's blog:
link to richardsilverstein.com
Ace!
Message trying to follow agog's link:
Interesting:
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please get out the popgun soon and include jeffrey goldburg too. let's make all these people look absolutely ridiculous. how about frank rich as well.
found this:
why has a “liberal” like Rich been so tough on Gore through the years? Why did he invent Love Story in 1997? Throughout the course of Campaign 2000, why did he keep pretending that Bush and Gore were a perfectly-matched pair of bumblers? When Gore spoke out on Iraq in 2002, why did Rich attack him again (inventing his facts as he went)? And in his new column, just two weeks ago, why did he nit-pick those ludicrous complaints about Gore? For example, why did he pretend—in that pathetic example—that Gore “waffled” on creationism in 1999? For the most part, readers have no way to evaluate such claims. Why does Rich just keep making them up?
he did it to kerry too. closet neocon…
Thank you to the Times!
The times they are …
not so if you watch the propaganda meter on, although it was worse yesterday and at intervals before:
http://www.blogpulse.com/search?query=Obama&image22.x=16&image22.y=9
What about a collective effort in studying the anti-Obamaa memes? Journalism classes, resulting in a site. Should be possible to see a certain pattern emerging after a time. should by fun too, and a good experience.
This guy I so far had given the benefit of doubts. Over!
Make sure you follow the INCITEMENT/Part 1/upper corner on the right. One sentence is enough: "The most trusted leaders of the Democratic party, such as John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, ought to be ashamed of themselves for supporting Barack Obama." If this lures you into reading the whole article, then tell me something about you. Since then you must have the profile of the target group. I'd be really interested, honestly:
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/
I am concerned about the Rezko stuff. It looks bad to me and I don't know how he's going to get out of it. I tell myself McCain's sleaziness is just as bad and maybe the repubs will call a moratorium on digging up sleaze.
Who is Rezko? peters?
I shouldn't be hanging around here, and I sure have other things to do. Maybe I should consult an therapist concerning my comment addiction?
But can you tell me shorty?
for me the greatness of the times (and w. post), it gives me something to look forward to in 40, 50, 60 years. today i read a lie and in 40-50-60 years a snippet of "truth" will be released. but to show that it is not a liar, the times (and w. post) will give 700 more lies (on same subject) and reword the "truth" that was given.
may the smallest god of smallest things bless amurderka and its beacon to…the in-between sabbath.
Ah, the real estate deal.
Peters, imagine you just bought a house somewhere and there is a strip of land with fruit trees next to it. Your own plot with the house is rather small. One day an acquaintance asks you, how you and your family like the new house and its surroundings? Fine you answer and in passing mention the strip of lands with the old trees.
"Oh", the guy says, "I think I could get that for you."
No, thanks you answer, our mortgages are close to our limits already.
"Don't worry", he answers, "I'll think, I can make it a real bargain."
Now, the guy was introduced to you as an expert.
Would you say no, if he finally offers you for a price you never expected?
One keeps reading that the NYT is a 'liberal' (as in American usage) newspaper. Nothing of the sort of course.
As a vehicle of Empire, its formal status follows the status of the flag. Its substantive status varies inversely with the inevitable corruption of empire.
Ergo, as per this minute, how low can one go?
James Aronson's 1970 The Press and the Cold War nailed the NYT almost 40 years. It deserves revisiting.
But with respect to the matter of Israel, the NYT has always effected its own standard of abasement, courtesy of Rosenthal, Safire, et. al.
The web, and through it access to not merely blogs but some more courageous provincial media, has exposed the NYT in all its muscular shabbiness.
Ethan Bronner isn't always so good. He published the limp article profiling the Nakba which got so much wrong about Israeli Arabs. Plus, when I e mailed him my respectful & detailed criticism he, unlike many other Times reporters who almost always reply, didn't give me the courtesy of one. I'm taking a wait & see attitude about Bronner.
Agog's link to my wonderful picture of the Wall (Ctrl-Alt-Del) is here:
I agree with Richard Silverstein.
In link to eaazi.blogspot.com
I express a caveat about the tendencies that NY times articles have been exhibiting.
Obama the Muslim was the obligatory Anti-Obama-meme No 1 of course.
Wonderful, Joachim, I know, I know. I should simply devote my empty black Kraut blog and start to collect. It's already there but still empty.
BUT PRAY TELL ME:
Can you explain something technical to me? Below a link to UBM. See serial comments at the end. What I do not understand is, why does the Cannonball link appear in preview mode, but is somehow swallowed up the moment I push the send button? Even in the comment that only contained two links. If the whole text is linked then there should be must html code at the end. But I nver did put it there. Any idea. From IT crack to IT n
itwit?
Okay, forget it, Joachim, maybe I'll ask David Mills himself. Are there bots that automatically delete links to blogs one doesn't like to be connected with?
But he has a wonderful light way to deal with the anti Obama crowd, while admittedly the blogpulse made my a little hysterical.
http://tinyurl.com/5zuzvu
Denying Finkelstein entrance to Israel was idiotic and wrong.
Denying Fulbright scholarships to Gazan students is idiotic and wrong.
I agree here with Richard Witty.
"Denying Finkelstein entrance to Israel was idiotic and wrong.
Denying Fulbright scholarships to Gazan students is idiotic and wrong."
Posted by: Richard Witty | June 01, 2008 at 11:09 AM
not from israel's point of view. it will not suffer any noticeable consequences. the usa do something?
the palestinians will continue to suffer. norm has greater creds to serve the ultimate goal.
all in all a good week for evil.
Sorry, I only just noticed your question.
I am not sure how you are adding your comments because mixed ordinary text and some html is allowed, but I think you had an error in usage of angle brackets.