The New York Times has an important editorial today about cab drivers using their cell phones. A terrible trend for the upper-middle-class readers of the Times!
Still no editorial about the Judge Goldstone report that says the people of Gaza are being persecuted. Says James North (who commented along these lines earlier): "The blackout continues. No news story, no followup, no analysis. No editorial–though they found room for an editorial notebook the other day about apple picking in upstate New York.
"And I’m not telling them what their opinion should be. But I want them to have an opinion about this important report. Though I can guess what it would be."
Are you shocked?
"No. I’m not shocked. But I’m surprised. And I’m not that easily surprised."
I believe the Times is avoiding this subject–apart from the small op-ed from Landau the other day– because it is so important, it is a hammer blow. It is as Richard Falk has said, a historic contribution to the Palestinian struggle for justice. And any effort to weasel about that fact ala the Obama administration, or try and counter Judge Goldstone’s factual assertions, well, it would be transparent.
