Letters
A24I am grateful for the doses of sanity provided by letter writers David P. Rountree and June Brott. The other letter writers regurgitate age-old anti-Israel rhetoric.
Judith Mahoney Pasternak's letter states an outright lie. She writes, "The bombs dropped by Israel are killing noncombatants by the hundreds in Gaza;" but on A1, Ethan Bronner and Taghreed El-Khodary report, "The death toll surpassed 350, some 60 of them civilians."
Printing a letter that is contradicted by your own reporting is unprofessional.
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The point about Pasternack....it was vulgar they printed that.
ReplyDeleteI have to add some moral outrage to the letters here. You're right on with your title, 2 out of 5 is bad. This is especially so, as you point out, the lame propaganda used. If that's all that was sent it to Times editors, then maybe it should've been 4 of 5 or even 5 of 5.
ReplyDeleteFinally, it was nauseating to see Phyllis Bennis get ink. She is a hard-core anti-Zionist and stops at nothing to demonize Israel, yet her description is that she's working on a book "on understanding" of the conflict.
Uggh.