Wednesday, August 6, 2003
Honest Reporting covers this LA Times piece that's typical of the type. The author has a deperate editorial point of moral equivalence to make, but the article itself doesn't support the point.
On August 1, The Los Angeles Times published side-by-side "day in the life" profiles of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy and a 12-year-old Israeli girl. The two youngsters live just an hour apart — she in Tel Aviv, he in Ramallah — and share much in common: "Both are privileged, middle-class children, raised by educated, worldly parents, and both have been marked by nearly three years of unrelenting conflict."
The eloquent articles highlight the different attitudes expressed by the two children:[...]
