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What Nicholas Kristof Didn’t Mention
Nicholas Kristof criticizes both leaders of Israel and Hamas in his latest column for The New York Times. If you decide to read it, keep in mind the following two oversights and errors. First, there’s one word he doesn’t use: occupation. Since 1967, *every* Israeli government has taken Palestinian land and built settlements. This isn’t…
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Washington Post Journalists Repeat Israeli Claims as Fact
The Huffington Post Posted: June 1, 2010 By Sanjeev Bery In the June 1st edition of the Washington Post, journalists Scott Wilson and Laura Blumenfeld uncritically repeat Israeli claims regarding the Gaza aid flotilla as fact. Wilson and Blumenfeld should recognize that Israeli officials have a vested interest in discrediting the activists who challenged Israel’s…
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Lack of Coverage on Transgendered Pakistanis Shows Bias in U.S. Media
The Huffington Post Posted: August 19, 2009 03:44 PM By Sanjeev Bery It probably wasn’t the first time that someone had organized an Independence Day cricket match in Pakistan. But it almost certainly was the first time that such a match occurred between a team of professional cricket players and a team of transgendered Pakistanis.…
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The Sovietologist Speaks
A good book review is a platform for a skilled sweep of history and society. Andrew O’Hehir’s Salon.com review of The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown rises to this standard. The focus of O’Hehir’s write-up is the recent work of a retired Oxford Sovietologist and former informal adviser to Margaret Thatcher. Despite…
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Pirates, Propaganda, and CNN
-“Heroes and villians” — it is standard rhetorical fare for elected officials, media outlets, and the general public. We all want our uplifting stories of freedom, set against the backdrop of immorality and danger. The story of the Somali pirates is no exception. This is not to say many of the pirates are in fact…
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The Nonprofit Newspaper?
Good reporting on U.S. foreign policy requires good reporting, period. As newspapers shrink and reporters get laid off, accurate American discourse about our actions in the world becomes less likely. The best (worst) example is Iraq. Even before the Obama Administration began, flagging public interest intersected with shrinking media budgets to result in Baghdad…