For The Financial Times yesterday, the likelihood that Avigdor Lieberman will become Foreign Minister was the top news story of the day. FT ran the story in the top-right hand column of the paper, ahead of the AIG story. For the New York Times yesterday, the same story was deep inside the paper, A6.
I say this is wrong: an effort, maybe unconsciously, to squelch bad news from Israel. By such declensions of the awful truth of what is happening in that society, the Times is making it hard for J Street and Jeremy Ben-Ami, and Michelle Goldberg and Eric Alterman to build opposition inside the American Jewish community to the Israel lobby. This is the last chance to save Israel, Goldberg says. Who is listening? Says James North, who pointed this out to me:
