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Inky Notes: Inky Trashes Carter and more

by Edward S Herman | 05.03.2008

The Inky has always taken the easy road, and my earlier designation of their work as cowardly ("Profiles in Cowardice: The Philadelphia Inquirer's new 'right stuff' program," Z Magazine, July/August, 2001) has rarely been contradicted by their news or editorial page policy. In the case of the Israel-Palestinian conflict it is of course notorious that no politician in this country can now survive without genuflecting to Israel and denouncing the Palestinians, and the media has been equally cowed.

It is interesting to see that former head of the American Jewish Committee, Henry Siegman, at this point cannot find any space in the mainstream U.S.