Not a leg to stand on
Not a leg to stand on
Earlier, I took issue with a Thomas Friedman "Holding up Arab Reform" in a post "Make Way for Reform". I took issue with Friedman's excusing the anti-Israel and anti-American sections of the Arab human development report.
What had set Thomas off was that there were reports that the Bush administration had pressured the authors to delay the report until some of the harsher anti-Israel and anti-American rhetoric had been changed. Well apparently that may not have happened.
The New York Times has an editor's note appended to the end of this week's article about the recently released third Arab Human Development Report, "Faulting U.S., Report Urges Arab Lands to Democratize". The essence of the commendable editor's note is that the charge that the United States blocked earlier release of the AHDR is unsubstantiated and disputed by administration officials and that these qualifications should have been mentioned in the article. I e-mailed the public editor to ask if the editor's note will now be attached to the Friedman column that apparently was based on nothing more than rumors.
Crossposted on Israpundit and Doubting Thomas.
Posted by David Gerstman at April 8, 2005 02:17 AM
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Not a leg to stand on
Earlier, I took issue with a Thomas Friedman "Holding up Arab Reform" in a post "Make Way for Reform". I took issue with Friedman's excusing the anti-Israel and anti-American sections of the Arab human development report.
What had set Thomas off was that there were reports that the Bush administration had pressured the authors to delay the report until some of the harsher anti-Israel and anti-American rhetoric had been changed. Well apparently that may not have happened.
The New York Times has an editor's note appended to the end of this week's article about the recently released third Arab Human Development Report, "Faulting U.S., Report Urges Arab Lands to Democratize". The essence of the commendable editor's note is that the charge that the United States blocked earlier release of the AHDR is unsubstantiated and disputed by administration officials and that these qualifications should have been mentioned in the article. I e-mailed the public editor to ask if the editor's note will now be attached to the Friedman column that apparently was based on nothing more than rumors.
Crossposted on Israpundit and Doubting Thomas.
Posted by David Gerstman at April 8, 2005 02:17 AM