This is how you know we don't live in a serious country.
The other day the New York Times put the Israel lobbyist/provocateur Michael Goldfarb on the front page in a profile that marveled at Goldfarb's political achievements as a goodnatured "troublemaker". These paragraphs capture reporter Jim Rutenberg's tone:
An all-around anti-liberal provocateur, Mr. Goldfarb has blazed a trail in the new era of campaign finance, in which loosened restrictions have flooded the political world with cash for a whole new array of organizations that operate outside the traditional bounds of the parties.
Often working with money from major Republican donors, most of whom have preferred anonymity, Mr. Goldfarb has been in the middle of nearly every major partisan dispute of Mr. Obama’s presidency — over Iran, Israel, terrorism policy and now Mr. Hagel and guns.
Etc.
Ali Gharib has taken this piece apart, pointing out that the Times made no real effort to track all the lies that Goldfarb has disseminated in order to push his agenda.
Meantime, from As'ad Abu Khalil's blog, Angry Arab, Feb. 20th:
I had a chance to ask John Mearsheimer yesterday at the University of Chicago about his experience since the publication of his article (with Stephen Walt) and later book about the Israeli lobby. He permitted me to cite on the blog: he told me that he had published 11 op-ed pieces in the New York Times before the appearance of the article on the Israeli lobby. Two of those were solicited by the Times. He said that after the appearance of the article [in 2006], he has not published one op-ed piece and the ones he sent were rejected. He said that his speaking engagements went through a steep decline as a result. But it was refreshing to see him not intimidated by the Israeli lobby that he wrote about.
New York Times doing free advertising for Soda Stream too. They do mention the boycott “Last week, SodaStream — the Israel-based industry leader, which began sales in the United States in 2009 — reported that annual sales worldwide rose to $436.3 million in 2012, from $289 million in 2011. According to Yonah Lloyd, president of SodaStream International, the company sold about 3.5 million machines last year. Because of its nimble approach to manufacturing, SodaStream landed on Fast Company magazine’s “World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” list for 2013, alongside Apple and Google. (The company has also attracted unwanted attention, including a boycott, because some of its plants are in the West Bank.) ”
link to nytimes.com
“He said that after the appearance of the article [in 2006], he has not published one op-ed piece and the ones he sent were rejected. ”
Wow. And then they say that to mention a Jewish lobby is defamation. It’s just like it always was when it comes to Israel. STFU everyone.
Times carrying the water for the Israel Lobby and Zionism. Fawning after right-wing Zionists.
Typical and unsurprising.
No surprise there…the NYT is 90% a zionist rag.
Judith “I was fucking right” Miller..yep the NY”bloody” Times printed all of her deadly garbage.
Time to “BDS” the Times.
Don’t advertise in it.
Don’t buy it.
Don’t pick up discarded copies on the suibway.
Don’t even wrap fish in it.
Refer to it only for the purpose of damaging it (with the truth of its malfeasance).
I cancelled my subscription today.
Ya, let`s BDS them all. Everybody we don`t like. Long live peace and understanding.
From a cheerleader for apartheid, ethnic cleansing, racist supremacy andsssaxaring murder.
I was just reading about a mr. shuchman,who just passed away,and left a parting jab at his least favourite paper the ny times.aparently the rag was too unti israel for him.wow.
Everyone here can decry the infuriating NY Times – I know I do it a lot – but there is a lot of good stuff there. And of all the mainstream media, including NPR and public television, they are probably the best in being fair. I still think they are heavily biased towards Israel, and tell the story from primarily a pro-Israeli perspective, but relative to the rest, I said relative to the rest, they are semi-respectable. Not that it’s necessarily worth much, but just ask the Lobby what they think of the NY Times!
The Tijmes can talk about the 2-state solution being dead and some other taboo topics, if only on the Lede. But I guess Mearsheimer really touched a nerve. And so an important foreign policy academic is shut out.
they are probably the best in being fair. I still think they are heavily biased towards Israel, and tell the story from primarily a pro-Israeli perspective, but relative to the rest, I said relative to the rest, they are semi-respectable. Not that it’s necessarily worth much
you’re right about one thing anyway.
Prof. Mearsheimer is a saint. Career men and women with backbones and any measure of integrity are so rare these days.
“career men and women with backbones….
pamela
admittedly,these days, optional extras like backbones are rare,but frontbones are still quite common among the younger crowd.make no bones about it one has to pick ones bones very carefully.remember it is not always the donkey that gets you home ,but the rider