Max Blumenthal’s investigative report into Ethan Bronner’s relationship with the Israeli PR firm Lone Star Communications references a photo of Bronner “arm-in-arm” with Charley Levine, the West Bank settler who founded the firm. When I went to the Lone Star website I couldn’t find it. Blumenthal sent me the following screen shot and said this page appeared here as late as last week:
Lone Star Speaker’s Bureau featuring Photo of Ethan Bronner with Lone star founder Charley levine. There is a Google cache of the page from September 1, 2011 here.
The caption under the photo reads, “New York Times bureau chief Ethan Bronner was the first VIP speaker to join the new Lone Star Speakers Bureau.” Bronner is also listed first on the bureau. Here’s what the Lone Star Speakers Bureau webpage looks like today:
Bronner is not even listed, and the photo features Natan Sharansky:
I have an email into Lone Star asking if Bronner has been dropped from the Bureau, I’ll update when I get a response.
Update: The Electronic Intifada’s Benjamin Doherty has determined that the Speakers Bureau page on the Lone Star website was in fact edited today:
Credit: Benjamin Doherty
We still don’t know what was changed on the page, but given the minimal differences between the pages with and without Bronner (above), this would seem to indicate that he was edited out very recently.
