{"id":12667,"date":"2010-02-08T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12667"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T21:12:45","slug":"alison-weir-should-the-new-york-times-hire-jared-malsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12667","title":{"rendered":"Alison Weir: Should the New York Times hire Jared Malsin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alison Weir<br \/>\n7 February 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently, the <em>New York Times<\/em> has only one bureau to cover Israel-Palestine. This is in Israel and its chief editor, Ethan Bronner, consistently shows Israeli bias, as I&#8217;ve noted in a number of previous postings (even apart from the fact that his son has recently entered the Israeli military). The <em>Times<\/em>&#8216; other major correspondent, Isabel Kershner, is an Israeli citizen.<\/p>\n<p><em>New York Times<\/em> Editor Bill Keller, in defending his decision to retain Bronner as their bureau chief despite Bronner&#8217;s conflict of interest and profoundly flawed track record, writes that he feels Bronner&#8217;s intimate family ties with Israel &#8220;supply a measure of sophistication about Israel and its adversaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/alisonweir.org\/journal\/2010\/2\/7\/should-the-new-york-times-hire-jared-malsin.html\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Weir 7 February 2010 Currently, the New York Times has only one bureau to cover Israel-Palestine. This is in Israel and its chief editor, Ethan Bronner, consistently shows Israeli bias, as I&#8217;ve noted in a number of previous postings &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3ij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12670,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12667\/revisions\/12670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}