http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/05/media-and-the-palestinians-%e2%80%9ccontinued-stalemate-will-only-strengthen-extremists%e2%80%9d/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/05/media-and-the-palestinians-%e2%80%9ccontinued-stalemate-will-only-strengthen-extremists%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-7868 Mon, 16 May 2011 15:32:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=5170#comment-7868 The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal are perhaps the other major sources of mainstream news, which however often offer only a slight contrast to the NYT. Yet more and more news aggregators such as RealClearPolitics are being used to quickly survey a wider swath of news and viewpoints. And when considering that the internet is becoming the major source of news in America, I don’t think the New York Times has anything near a monopoly on American readership. However, with respect to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, unless on looks past mainstream sources of news, one might indeed be hard pressed to find contrasting opinions. Zbigniew Brzezinski had once chastised the host of “Morning Joe” for offering a “stunningly superficial” take, informed primarily by the WP and NYT, on recent developments between Isreal and Palestine. “Stunningly superficial” is the norm however. Indeed, the fresh and criticial perspective the author has offered here is a welcome contribution to a debate that should be happening, but by and large isn’t.

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