A lefty friend asked me if I had read
the NYTimes article on the British university professors' boycott of
Jewish Israeli academics? I said I hadn't and probably wouldn't. “I
rely on the Jerusalem Post for the best reports on that issue” I
replied. She asked whether I relied on Haaretz. "No," I replied.
“Is the NYTimes or Haaretz inaccurate?” she asked. "No. Just unreliable."
The problem with lefty ideologs and
their media outlets is that the Left has never held honesty in high
regard. (Remember how the Left loved Stalin, Mao, Castro, Che and
never let information interfere?) The left is “ends” oriented,
not “means.” As a consequence the movement has a clear agenda to
promote (I have recapitulated that agenda often, most recently here),
honesty is regularly a victim. The rest of the political spectrum
has no unified agenda so it can be honest or not. It is up to us to
evaluate honesty.
I find the Wall Street Journal and the Jerusalem Post to be impeccably honest, and accurate (clearly not the same thing.)
(Postscript: I read the NYTimes account and found it missing two key elements. It failed to mention the up-coming re-vote on May 26th and the nazi links on the websites of two of the AUT provocateurs.)