If the Times’s reporters could actually corroborate the story, more power to them in publishing it. But at this point, they are just repeating unconfirmed allegations from a dubious source, in other words, passing along wartime propaganda as news. Richard Behar recently noted that the co-author of the story, Gaza correspondent Fares Akram, is hardly an objective observer, happily also working for Al Jazeera and taking its pro-Hamas line. But why would Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren put her name on this dreck, and how did it get past the Times’s editors? washingtonpost/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/08/24/why-would-the-new-york-times-publish-an-uncorroborated-allegation-from-the-son-of-a-senior-hamas-official/
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:00:11 +0000
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