The issue of the NY Times' Jerusalem Bureau's Chief having a son serving in the IDF won't go away. It shouldn't!
More troubling, however, is that when one reads this piece on CounterPunch "All in the Family" the "connections" to Israel by various correspondents in Israel is widespread - thereby raising the none-too-critical question of how objective the "news" out of the troubled region really is.
"While Israel may be family for these journalists and editors, for the vast majority of Americans, Israel is a foreign country. In survey after survey, Americans say they don’t wish to “take sides” on this conflict. In other words, the American public wants full, unfiltered, unslanted coverage.
Quite likely the news media refuse to answer questions about their journalists’ affiliations because they suspect, accurately, that the public would be displeased to learn that the reporters and editors charged with supplying news on a foreign nation and conflict are, in fact, partisans."
More troubling, however, is that when one reads this piece on CounterPunch "All in the Family" the "connections" to Israel by various correspondents in Israel is widespread - thereby raising the none-too-critical question of how objective the "news" out of the troubled region really is.
"While Israel may be family for these journalists and editors, for the vast majority of Americans, Israel is a foreign country. In survey after survey, Americans say they don’t wish to “take sides” on this conflict. In other words, the American public wants full, unfiltered, unslanted coverage.
Quite likely the news media refuse to answer questions about their journalists’ affiliations because they suspect, accurately, that the public would be displeased to learn that the reporters and editors charged with supplying news on a foreign nation and conflict are, in fact, partisans."
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