September 10, 2003

Call Terrorists “Terrorists”

Yet another newspaper has published a column that wrestles with the question of when it is appropriate to label a murderer a terrorist. On September 5, 2003, Boston Globe ombudsman Christine Chinlund wrote a column entitled "Who should wear the "˜terrorist' label?" in which she explained that the newspaper's editors consider it acceptable to label attacks against civilians "acts of terror," but do not consider it appropriate to name the perpetrators "terrorists," unless they are from Al Qaeda.

September 1, 2003

CNN.com Mangles Facts in Jerusalem Feature

CNN adopts an inappropriate partisan stance, twisting historical facts, excluding issues crucial to understanding the status of Jerusalem.and minimizing the city's sacred status in Judaism.

August 22, 2003

UPDATED: NPR’s Little Cover-Up

NPR's Terror Problem, published recently on National Review Online, documented National Public Radio's refusal to use any form of the word terror in reporting recent murderous attacks by Palestinians against Israelis, despite the network's regular use of the terror word in reporting the recent al-Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Now the publicly-funded network has been caught in an embarrassing cover-up on the issue.
August 22, 2003

USA Today’s “Tit-for-Tat” Editorial

In an attempt to draw parallels between the two sides, USA Today's August 21 editorial "Nurture peace hopes" completely misrepresents current Israeli-Palestinian realities by trying to present an Israeli-Palestinian "cycle of tit-for-tat bloodshed." Israeli counter-terrorism is no more part of a "cycle of bloodshed" than police arresting murderers is part of a "cycle of crime."

August 20, 2003

BBC-WATCH: BBC Blames Israel Again

The two homicide bombings that rocked the Middle East on August 19, 2003 – targeting in Baghdad UN workers who had come to rebuild the country, and in Jerusalem Jewish families with young children returning from prayer at the Western Wall – elicited early sympathetic reaction on BBC. But it didn’t take very long for the network’s Web site to start implying fault on Israel’s part.