This has been going on for months, and they just can’t get their story straight. [A flyer on this can be downloaded at www.ifamericansknew.org/download/MichRadio.pdf – people in Michigan are encouraged to distribute it widely!] [Michigan Radio is the NPR affiliate in southeastern Michigan. To learn more about NPR’s pro-Israel bias…
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Below is Stephen Sniegoski’s informative article: Government investigations of controversial events are invariably whitewashes to protect the government and eliminate the truth. So it is to a large degree with Britain’s Iraq Inquiry, which Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on June 15, 2009 for the stated purpose of identifying lessons…
Now that there has been so much controversy over the fact that the son of the New York Times‘ Israel-Palestine bureau chief is serving in the Israeli army, more is starting to come out about other major journalists who had/have their own intimate connections to the IDF. Jewish Week reports…
Ethan Bronner on Gaza: Investigative Journalism or IDF Stenography?
Currently, the New York Times has only one bureau to cover Israel-Palestine. This is in Israel and its chief editor, Ethan Bronner, consistently shows Israeli bias, as I’ve noted in a number of previous postings (even apart from the fact that his son has recently entered the Israeli military). The…
As I predicted, the New York Times management is ignoring evidence of Ethan Bronner’s Israel-centric reporting and is, so far, keeping him on as their Jerusalem bureau chief. Editor Bill Keller explains in a blog posting that the Times‘ “rulebook leaves us wide latitude,” that they’re not going “to capitulate…
Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive of Haiti told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Jan. 27th that there had been reports of child trafficking and organ trafficking in Haiti… CNN news report on this – “Traffickers targeting Haiti’s children, human organs, PM says” (CNN) — Trafficking of children and human organs is occurring…
It’s not difficult to predict that the Times will refuse to acknowledge Bronner’s conflict of interest, despite the paper’s own ethics guidelines and journalism ethics in general, which state: “Even the appearance of obligation or conflict of interest should be avoided.” It is sad that places like the Times so…
New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner, who is embroiled in an ethics controversy (see below), is about to embark on a small speaking tour on college campuses. People may wish to raise Bronner’s ethics violations at these and future venues. Speaking schedule: Feb. 2, Tues, 2pm: Brandeis, International Lounge of…
The Electronic Intifada has just broken the story that the son of Ethan Bronner, the New York Times bureau chief for Israel-Palestine, has just joined the Israeli army. This is obviously a serious conflict of interest. As EI points out, “The New York Times’ own ‘Company policy on Ethics in…