A piece assailing Shlomo Sand’s book on the Invention of the Jewish People in the New York Times the other day drew this applause from Andrew Silow-Carroll of the New Jersey Jewish News:
The debate – and the Jews – are well served by [Patricia] Cohen’s piece, which eschews “objective” news reporting for analysis. If done as a straight-forward news story, the reporter would have been obligated to offer “equal time” to the other side of the argument – X says this, but Y says this. The Times did this in covering the “intelligent design” debate – in trying to appear objective, they put ID “experts” on an equal footing with genuine biologists and “balanced” the overwhelming evidence of the scientific method with folklore.
I think we should thank Cohen for not bowing to the false god of objectivity.
The New York Times would apparently rather deal with angry letters from the "intelligent design" advocates who don’t read the NY Times anyway, than with the tens of thousands of Jews who do.
