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December 14, 2002

New York Times Alert: Small Words with a Big Impact

Words matter. In the Dec. 8, 2002 “Week in Review” section of the New York Times, a deceptive, opinion-laden adjective was included in a news-brief written by reporter Michael Wines: “After 26 months of Palestinian suicide bombings and pitiless Israeli retaliation, is there light at the end of the tunnel?”Pitiless is a word for those who blow up Israeli toddlers, school children and grandmothers going about their daily lives. Why is it applied to Israelis who are acting in self-defense against the savagery directed against them?

November 18, 2002

Thumbs Up to James Bennet

THUMBS UP to James Bennet, Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, for his generally impartial, balanced coverage of the region. For example, in his Nov. 18 article entitled "On Hebron Ambush Site, A New Settlement Rises," Bennet reported on the aftermath of the killing in Hebron of 12 Israelis.