This is a weird tale of my advice first biting me in the ass and then becoming useful.
The story begins in the mid-90s when I began advising both the Japanese government and the Israeli government to break through the global Japanese and Jew hatred that is built into the media bias. I suggested that both countries develop a proprietary relationship with a major global newspaper or two and give them exclusive stories. The relationship should help when urgent honest reporting is necessary.
At the time I believed that the New York Times was a newspaper with enough prestige that it would embarrass the other media sufficiently to get the accurate story through to the public.
The first time that Israel got to test this theory was in April 2002. The Israeli Defense forces attacked an ancient town called Jenin as part of a response to the Second Intifada. Jenin had an intricate ancient town structure making it very dangerous for the Israeli forces. One solution would have been to bomb the town and destroy the fifty Palestinian terrorists who were hiding there along with the civilian population.
The Israelis, as is their moral wont, decided to attack on foot, door to door, with the known risk of death to the Israeli soldiers. Instead of losing one or two men, Israel in its willingness to protect Palestinian civilians instead lost 23 young Israeli soldiers.
Here is the story as reported in Wikipedia.
"On April 7, senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat suggested to CNN that some 500 Palestinians had been killed in the camp. Five days later, when the fighting stopped, PA Secretary Ahmed Abdel Rahman told UPI that the number was in the thousands, hinting, along with other Palestinian figures, that Israel had snatched bodies, buried Palestinians in mass graves and under the rubble of ruined buildings, and otherwise conducted on a scale compatible with genocide."
Stories of hundreds of civilians being killed in their homes as they were demolished spread throughout international media.[7] Subsequent investigations found no evidence to substantiate claims of a massacre, and official totals from Palestinian and Israeli sources confirmed between 52 and 54 Palestinians, mostly gunmen, and 23 IDF soldiers as having been killed in the fighting."
Israel had videotapes and audiotapes from a UN observatory near the Jenin camp. These showed the reality of UN cooperation with the terrorists as well as the meticulous Israeli protection of civilian lives.
The New York Times was given the exclusive access to the footage.
The New York Times did not use any of it. It went with the Jew hate story.
I was aware of the traditional Jew hate at the New York Times but was stunned at their behavior in this historic instance. I couldn’t believe the malicious behavior of the NYTimes.
It has been 12 years since that idea of mine turned out so badly.
Now the Israelis (and the Japanese as well) have learned to use the Wall Street Journal which doesn't hate them. In the most recent Gaza war Israel broke the story to the Wall Street Journal that president Obama had stopped the supply of important missiles to Israel in the middle of battle.
This story of Obama White House treachery and underlying Jew hate was published by the Wall Street Journal and dramatically changed the tone of the global reporting on Gaza.
My idea that first bit me in the ass, finally redeemed me.