Eric Rozenman
WASHINGTON POST WATCH: February Follies
Editorializing in the news, sanitizing an editorial, and odd omissions marred Washington Post Arab-Israeli coverage in February
Washington Post Distorts Building in Jerusalem
Washington Post correspondent John Ward Anderson has
teamed up with Israel’s critics in a Post "investigation"
indicting the Israeli government and Jewish groups for "consolidating
their grip on strategic locations." The result is a highly distorted account of
construction in Jerusalem with the broad implication that Jews
have no right to move into or build in predominantly Arab neighborhoods regardless of
historical and legal claims to property.
Washington Post-Watch: Terrorist or Militant?
Toles in a Cartoon World of His Own
Editorial cartoons – political commentary in illustrated form, usually with some attempt at humor – are intentionally subjective. That being the case, they generally escape critical analysis. But when the cartoonist's premise contradicts the essential facts of his subject matter, criticism is mandatory. So it is with Tom Toles' editorial cartoon in the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune.
Key Quotes Missing in Action; Washington Post Whiffs on Mubarak, Abbas
Setting the Record Straight in USA Today
CAMERA published a letter in USA Today setting the record straight on the nature of Fatah and the PLO.
USA Today’s Arafat Obituary Distorts History
Yasir Arafat is buried as he lived, in a shroud of lies. These include lies of commission, omission and of minor facts used to obscure larger truths. Common in coverage of Arafat's death, they stem from uncritical acceptance of conventional wisdom as much as from any intent to deceive. But they are nonetheless dangerous, contributing to revisionist Arab-Israeli history.
CAMERA Letter Published in Washington Post
Washington CAMERA director Eric Rozenman's letter clarifying the reason for increase in Palestinian violence was published in the Washington Post on October 30.