Comments on: Kenneth Stein on Carter http://www.yourish.com/2007/01/14/2588 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ted http://www.yourish.com/2007/01/14/2588/comment-page-1#comment-24348 Ted Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:27:26 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/01/14/2588#comment-24348 Don't give too much credit to the L.A. Times. While you would think this was an issue with national (or international) importance, they used the excuse of Stein's lecture to bury this article in Saturday's local-news section -- which virtually no one reads (unless they're looking for furniture ads). If you want an idea of what the L.A. Times considers important Middle East coverage, check out this headline and subhead from the front page of the following day's paper: "The Mideast's Most Wanted: Israel hunts militants it considers terrorists. The Palestinian leader needs them to come out of hiding to fight Hamas." In it, we learn that Israel has been "slow to keep its promises" to grant amnesty to what the Times calls "quiet" Fatah militants, including one who "swears he has not fired his M-16 rifle at an Israeli in nearly four years." That's the kind of objective in-depth reporting we've come to know and love from our home-town paper. Don’t give too much credit to the L.A. Times. While you would think this was an issue with national (or international) importance, they used the excuse of Stein’s lecture to bury this article in Saturday’s local-news section — which virtually no one reads (unless they’re looking for furniture ads).

If you want an idea of what the L.A. Times considers important Middle East coverage, check out this headline and subhead from the front page of the following day’s paper: “The Mideast’s Most Wanted: Israel hunts militants it considers terrorists. The Palestinian leader needs them to come out of hiding to fight Hamas.”

In it, we learn that Israel has been “slow to keep its promises” to grant amnesty to what the Times calls “quiet” Fatah militants, including one who “swears he has not fired his M-16 rifle at an Israeli in nearly four years.” That’s the kind of objective in-depth reporting we’ve come to know and love from our home-town paper.

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2007/01/14/2588/comment-page-1#comment-24335 Alex Bensky Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:00:20 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/01/14/2588#comment-24335 Sad thing is that there are a couple of hundred people in that group and the ones who resigned with Stein, a mere dozen, seem to be almost all Jewish. Sad thing is that there are a couple of hundred people in that group and the ones who resigned with Stein, a mere dozen, seem to be almost all Jewish.

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