A view from Canada of Israeli-Hezbollah culpability that you don’t run into often enough, including details of Palestinians etc. upping body count with imported corpses:
On Thursday, Israel apologized for last weekend’s bombing of an apartment building in Qana, Lebanon, in which more than two dozen civilians were killed. As a result of faulty military intelligence, Israel believed the building was being used as a “hiding place” for terrorists. In fact, it was a refuge for innocent men, women and children.
But while Israel has admitted its role in these deaths, the terror organization Hezbollah has not. Hezbollah’s cowardly practice of hiding behind human shields was the reason the Israel Defense Force (IDF) began bombing Qana in the first place. Since the beginning of this war, Hezbollah has sought to maximize civilian deaths on both sides, not only by firing rockets at the heart of Israeli cities, but also by firing those rockets from inside Lebanese homes and apartment buildings — thereby ensuring more civilian casualties when Israel protects itself by striking back at the rocket launchers.
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Categories: Chicago Newspapers
A view from Canada of Israeli-Hezbollah culpability that you don’t run into often enough, including details of Palestinians etc. upping body count with imported corpses:
On Thursday, Israel apologized for last weekend’s bombing of an apartment building in Qana, Lebanon, in which more than two dozen civilians were killed. As a result of faulty military intelligence, Israel believed the building was being used as a “hiding place” for terrorists. In fact, it was a refuge for innocent men, women and children.
But while Israel has admitted its role in these deaths, the terror organization Hezbollah has not. Hezbollah’s cowardly practice of hiding behind human shields was the reason the Israel Defense Force (IDF) began bombing Qana in the first place. Since the beginning of this war, Hezbollah has sought to maximize civilian deaths on both sides, not only by firing rockets at the heart of Israeli cities, but also by firing those rockets from inside Lebanese homes and apartment buildings — thereby ensuring more civilian casualties when Israel protects itself by striking back at the rocket launchers.
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Rocky Mountain News editor targets Editor & Publisher as leftist rant:
[E&P editor] Mitchell is mistaking standard opinion journalism for media criticism. There are plenty of places to debate the right approach to Iraq or to the current Mideast Crisis, but what he’s doing is not media criticism.
Even if he’s going to wear his politics on his sleeve, he should be taking on the quality of the reporting, not recounting his unhappiness with the editorial positions of journalists or newspapers. At a minimum, he should have his Web site provide an opposing view. But what he should really do to make his publication relevant is critique journalism, not tell us what he thinks newspapers should be saying on their editorial pages or in their columns.
Now. In this presumed media-critique blog, do you find positionism leaking in? That’s entirely possible, but this editor’s slam at the E&P man serves as a good reminder not to let it do so. (Hat tip to Romenesko)
Categories: Chicago Newspapers
Rocky Mountain News editor targets Editor & Publisher as leftist rant:
[E&P editor] Mitchell is mistaking standard opinion journalism for media criticism. There are plenty of places to debate the right approach to Iraq or to the current Mideast Crisis, but what he’s doing is not media criticism.
Even if he’s going to wear his politics on his sleeve, he should be taking on the quality of the reporting, not recounting his unhappiness with the editorial positions of journalists or newspapers. At a minimum, he should have his Web site provide an opposing view. But what he should really do to make his publication relevant is critique journalism, not tell us what he thinks newspapers should be saying on their editorial pages or in their columns.
Now. In this presumed media-critique blog, do you find positionism leaking in? That’s entirely possible, but this editor’s slam at the E&P man serves as a good reminder not to let it do so. (Hat tip to Romenesko)
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