Israel Matzav: You know you're biased when al-Reuters is unbiased by comparison

You know you're biased when al-Reuters is unbiased by comparison

Israel's United Nations delegation has been carrying on a running battle with the New York Times over the newspaper's coverage of the Goldstone Report.

The Israeli mission’s letter to the Times states: “Over and over, The New York Times’ articles on this matter employ language that easily leads the reader to believe that the Goldstone Report found conclusive evidence that Israel committed war crimes. In Neil MacFarquhar’s ‘U.N. Council Endorses Gaza Report’ (Oct. 16), the article states that the Goldstone Report ‘details evidence of war crimes committed by the Israeli Army…’ In Sharon Otterman’s ‘Gaza Report Author Asks U.S. to Clarify Concerns’ (Oct. 22), the Goldstone Report is described as having “found evidence of war crimes committed by Israel…”

The letter provides a third similar example as well, and then states, “In stark contrast, a Reuters article carried by The New York Times on Oct. 14, ‘Israel Urged to Investigate Gaza War Crimes Charges,’ describes the Goldstone Report as reflecting ‘U.N. allegations of possible war crimes.’”
“In sharp contrast, the aforementioned Times articles fail to reflect this vital distinction, as readers will falsely assume that the Goldstone Report found conclusive evidence of Israeli war crimes.”

Cohen concludes, “I wish to reiterate Israel’s position that the Goldstone Report is deeply flawed and one-sided as it offers legitimacy to Hamas terrorism and its deliberate strategy to launch attacks, store weapons and use as shields the civilian population and infrastructure of Gaza. At the same time, [it] wrongly condemned Israel’s legitimate exercise of its right to self-defense. The tendency of The New York Times to gloss over such realities must be rectified and I sincerely hope that the paper will use accurate and appropriate language to ensure that its coverage of the Goldstone Report and the wide Middle East is fair and honest.”

You know you're biased when al-Reuters is unbiased by comparison.

Israel Matzav: You know you're biased when al-Reuters is unbiased by comparison