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Boycott b@%%@*ks
This blog will not be joining the boycott of Israel along with the trades unions of British journalists and academics. It does want peace in the Middle East and goodwill to humanity in general. It recognises that terrorists can go on to be successful politicians (Martin McGuinness, Yitzhak Shamir etc.). But not if they blow…
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Oh dear…
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Alan Johnston: Bret Stephens vs the BBC
Fran Unsworth, head of newsgathering at the BBC, takes issue with Bret Stephens. She calls his piece on Alan Johnston for the Wall Street Journal “scurrilous.” I disagree. I think snide is a better word. And it’s shorter. First, let me put the piece in context. Stephens is an anglophobe and his attack on the…
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Victims and journalists…
Saw an Arab journalist friend yesterday. He was describing a trip he’d been on to a Western country with some leading Middle Eastern journalists. One of their Western hosts expressed private horror at the prejudice and narrow-mindedness some of his colleagues brought to the experience. “You shouldn’t judge them as journalists,” my friend said, by…