Ok, Nadine. You started with:
Your author posted a pretty exhaustive list of the pro-Israel commentators, but I don't think he tried very hard to look for the pro-Palestinian commentators. He could have found several from every left of center paper in the country without having to look too hard. #reply-17260321
Given just one allegedly left of center paper in response to that, the only one I see regularly that could be considered to have "several" commentators of any stripe , you suddenly switch to one (1) allegedly pro-Palestinian commentator at one (1) allegedly left of center newspaper. Who I've never heard of, so I got no idea if your characterization is remotely accurate. Plus Arafat, who, last I heard, could hardly be considered a commentator in the conventional sense of the word, and Robert Fisk, who might get an op-ed column here and there, but certainly isn't "in the country".
This is all sort of silly. Personally, I don't take many commentators seriously, having gotten quite jaded on the bloviating pundit class during the Clinton years. But claiming there's some kind of systematic bias against Israel in US papers of any stripe is pretty weird. What I see is lots of people willing to jump on any less than glowing mention of Israel as "bias", even if it's just half of some on one side/ on the other side thing. Meanwhile the bloviations from the long list of pundits that lead off #reply-17258995 which never, ever make the slightest attempt at looking at issues from both sides are, apparently, always the "objective" truth. Whatever. |
