commentarymagazine.com - 1/7/2009
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Allow me to propose a metric for evaluating whether a journalist is behaving responsibly or not: If he reports that Israel bombed a UN school and killed 30 civilians, he is irresponsible. If he reports that Hamas used a UN school as a weapons cache and base of operations for launching mortars at ...
thedailybeast.com - 1/6/2009
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thedailybeast.com —
The paper of record refuses to call them
terrorists, extols the group s humanitarian efforts, and whitewashes...
its behavior during the now-broken cease-fire. In the past week, the Fourth Estate s Hamas cheerleaders have stripped away any pretense of ...
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Why Does The New York Times Love Hamas?
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
Noah Pollak asked me to provide some framework
for a discussion of proportionality and just war theory...
with respect to the Israeli attack on Gaza. In re-reading my Catechism and brushing up on just war theory, I am struck first of all by how alien ...
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Proportionality And Terror
timesonline.co.uk - 1/5/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
Fighting intensified on the northern outskirts of Gaza
City yesterday as a Hamas leader warned that the...
Islamists would kill Jewish children anywhere in the world in revenge for Israel s devastating assault. They have legitimised the murder of their ...
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Hamas: Israel has legitimised the killing of its children
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NOAH POLLAK ON RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM….
Instapundit —
NOAH POLLAK ON RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM.
Dissecting Leftism —
... The bombed "school": "Allow me to propose a metric for evaluating whether a journalist is behaving responsibly or not: If he reports that Israel bombed a UN school and killed 30 civilians, he is irresponsible. If he reports that Hamas used a UN school as a weapons cache and base of operations for launching mortars at the IDF, and the IDF's return fire killed the Hamas cell along, tragically, with a yet-unspecified number of civilians, then he is behaving responsibly. If he wishes to be particularly scrupulous, he might additionally note that Hamas had rigged the school with ...
The media’s high dudgeon over Gaza ban
Yourish.com —
... desire to acquire either. You will inevitably send in ‘journalists’ who don’t know the geography, language, culture or history of either side in this conflict, forcing them to rely on unreliable (and biased) local sources and ‘fixers’ to supply the meat of their stories. There are already Palestinian journalists inside Gaza. Your stories are going to end up echoing their propaganda, so why not just take their feed?
UPDATE: More from Noah Pollak:
Journalists who abjure reporting the vital details of this ...
Masquerade
Daily Pundit —
Commentary » Blog Archive » Hamas’ Extracurricular Activities
Allow me to propose a metric for evaluating whether a journalist is behaving responsibly or not: If he reports that Israel bombed a UN school and killed 30 civilians, he is irresponsible. If he reports that Hamas used a UN school as a weapons cache and base of operations for launching mortars at the IDF, and the IDF’s return fire killed the Hamas cell along, tragically, with a yet-unspecified number of civilians, then he is behaving responsibly. If he wishes to be particularly scrupulous, he ...
Wednesday Linkfest!
The Anchoress —
... (and even Kyoto-esque treaties) than the press and the left would ever acknowledge, so this is really not a surprise, nor is the left’s continued lack of generosity toward him and these inconvenient truths.
Hitchens: writing about the religion that gets people to censor themselves (hint, it ain’t Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism) and the failings of Gaza. And here’s a thought on the failings of the media in their reportage. Bob Owens has more
On Gaza: ...
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