Friday, January 09, 2009

Propaganda of Israel in the New York Times

Here is another way in which the New York Times promotes exclusively the propaganda of the New York Times. Whenever Israel bombs a school or a mosque or a hospital or a house of a playground, the New York Times always quotes an Israeli propagandist to the effect that Israel bombed some terrorists, or the New York Times would volunteer a justification like invoking (as Taghreed El-Khodary does) the population density of Gaza. But if you read the New York Times, you would not know that Hamas also makes regular claims about its missiles; it also claims that it is bombing some military sites in Israel. The New York Times never quotes the propaganda claims of Hamas (which may be false of course, just as those propaganda claims of Israel are false) regarding its missiles, thereby judging that only the propaganda of one side is "fit to print."