● To add one more dimension to its dishonest reporting, Time portrayed Israel as having expressed regret for the killing on the beach, strongly leaving the suggestion that Israel was somehow responsible. What Timeomitted was that in expressing regret Israel made it clear it was not responsible for the shelling and the deaths.
In other words, Time did everything it could to downplay terrorist attacks on Israel in its coverage of the Israeli assassination of Samhadana.
I will give Timecredit for one thing. The story on the assassination of Samhadana, which appeared under the headline “End of a Cease-Fire,” took up only ten column inches. But you could write a book on fraudulent journalism with examples from that one tiny report.
I know the so-called mainstream media (New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ABC, NBC, CBS NPR, etc.) have long displayed an anti-U.S., anti-Israel bias. But I am shocked at how far over the edge Time has gone.
The only note of optimism one can draw from this is that with the advent of talk radio and the Web, particularly the blogosphere, publications like Time can no longer get away with journalistic malpractice. As more readers learn of Time’s lack of credibility, its circulation and its role in American journalism will diminish and hopefully disappear altogether. And why pay for anti-Israel, PLO-style propaganda from Time when you can get more than you need free of charge on the Internet?
