Saturday, December 28, 2013

The New York Times and the murder of Muhammas Shath

Look at this headline of the article by Anne Barnard: "Bomb in Beirut Kills Politician, a Critic of Syria and Hezbollah".  With this headline, she leaves no room for the imagination to speculate on the identity of the killers, and they may be those she mentions or may be not.  But when Hassan Laqqis was killed, the New York Times didn't come up with a headline along the lines of "Bomb in Beirut kills a Hizbullah commander, a foe of Israel".  Instead, Anne Barnard went to extra length to try to absolve Israel from responsibility and to bizarrely imply that Sunni Syrian opposition groups were behind it.