My following article appears on ABC Unleashed today: The rolling revelations of the WikiLeaks US embassy cables will continue for months but equally interesting is the reaction of the global media. Many in the British media establishment, not given advance look at the documents, fumed against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and repeated government spin that…
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New York Times doesn’t want to upset Obama too much
Here’s Bill Keller, editor of the New York Times, showing his paper’s true stripes over Wikileaks and going to the White House to make sure they weren’t too unhappy with the released cables. Media servitude to the wrong master:
Commentators who like war faster, please
Salon releases its Hack Thirty, their least favourite political columnists. Why? “Criteria for inclusion included writing the same column every week for 30 years, warmongering, joyless repetition of conventional wisdom, and making bad puns.” Number three is typical of the rot: [New York Times’] Thomas Friedman is an environmentalist, now. When he’s not jetting around…
We break Iraq and simply ignore it
Where is the Western responsibility for causing such chaos in Iraq? A second exodus has begun here, of Iraqis who returned after fleeing the carnage of the height of the war, but now find that violence and the nation’s severe lack of jobs are pulling them away from home once again. Since the American invasion…
As if Friedman isn’t Israel’s best bloody friend
Read this for a laugh. A cover story in leading Israeli daily Ma’ariv slams New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for being too critical of Israel and “jealous” of Netanyahu: You, Mr Friedman, are no Grossman and no Barnea. You’re just an American journalist. There are hundreds and thousands like you the world over. Many…
Deep behind “enemy” lines in Afghanistan
James Fergusson on the war in Afghanistan that isn’t being discussed in the New York Times or polite circles: The sound of a propeller engine is audible the moment my fixer and I climb out of the car, causing us new arrivals from Kabul to glance sharply upwards. I have never heard a military drone…
How Palestine inspires the people of Kashmir
Arundhati Roy in the New York Times powerfully expresses the conflict in Kashmir, America’s willful impotence and the mood of resistance: A week before he was elected in 2008, President Obama said that solving the dispute over Kashmir’s struggle for self-determination — which has led to three wars between India and Pakistan since 1947 —…
Is the Times too worried about upsetting its mates in Washington?
New York Times‘ Public Editor looks at the ethical decisions made by the paper in accepting the Wikileaks documents over Afghanistan. In the end, he argues that the paper made the right choice but there is one thing missing; the focus the paper took towards the US government. Was it too servile? Mr. Bill Keller…
Times just hopes and prays Israel will listen to its pleasant request
A New York Times editorial gets tough (for a Zionist publication): Enough game-playing. Mr. Netanyahu should accept Mr. Obama’s offer and be ready to form a new governing coalition if some current members bolt. Arab states need to do more to nudge Mr. Abbas back to the table and give him the political support he…
New York Times editors get a nice tour of the West Bank by colonists
Because the New York Times really needs more riding instructions from the Zionist establishment: New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and the influential daily’s executive editor Bill Keller visited the West Bank city of Ariel on Wednesday. According to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the American executives were given a tour of a number of…