{"id":89066,"date":"2013-11-05T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=2129817a93f886e627fc0451cf706c44"},"modified":"2013-11-05T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:29:35","slug":"two-editorials-fall-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/two-editorials-fall-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Editorials Fall Short"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s no surprise. Major media opinion at its best goes so far and no further. Sensitive red lines aren’t crossed.<\/div>\n
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News and information consumers are cheated. What’s most important to know isn’t reported. Sanitized content substitutes.<\/div>\n
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Haaretz is Israel’s oldest broadsheet. It was founded in 1918. It was the year WW I ended. Britain’s Mandate government sponsored it. In 1919, Zionist immigrants took control.<\/div>\n
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Initially it was called Hadashot Haaretz (News of the Land). Later it became Haaretz (The Land).<\/div>\n
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In 1937, Salman Schocken bought the paper. In 1939, his son Gershom became editor-in-chief. He remained so until death in 1990.<\/div>\n
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It’s published in Hebrew and English. It’s available online. It’s content is mixed. It includes responsible journalists like Amira Hass and Gideon Levy.<\/div>\n
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It gives op-ed space to Alan Dershowitz, ADL’s Abe Foxman, and other reprehensible figures. Its editorials go so far and no further.<\/div>\n
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On November 4, it headlined<\/span><\/a> “Netanyahu’s distorted priorities.” It was a good start. It sounded promising. It covered important ground.<\/div>\n
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It stopped short. It didn’t go far enough. It excluded some of what Israelis most need to know.<\/div>\n
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It said “Netanyahu’s recent decisions show that he remains determined to perpetuate the distorted realities he followed in his previous term.”<\/div>\n
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His holy “trinity” includes “security, settlements and Heredim.” Haaretz explained them as follows:<\/div>\n
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