Marty, this isn't the first time that the NY Times has given short shrift to events dealing with Jewish suffering.

The NY Times barely mentiioned the  Ilan Halimi's murder in France. And lest we forget the Times famously refused to print stories about the Holocaust while it was an ongoing event.

The demise of this disgraceful "news" paper is long overdue.

The Times treatment of the Jaffa Rd. terrorist attack is but one example of the moral vacuousness and deeply rooted intellectual dishonesty that characterizes the Middle East reporting of the elite, progressobabble media.

The BBC had a nice one yesterday when their initial headline on their www site's report of the attack read "Israel bulldozer driver shot dead" with no mention of the reason WHY the driver was shot dead.  The Beeb soon changed it to something a bit more reflective of the situation (" "Bulldozer rampage hits Jerusalem") but continued to emphasize that Israeli "security personnel" killed the poor driver.  The media watchdog group "HonestReporting.com"  managed to catch, and save, the original BBC report.  See it here:

www.honestreporting.com/.../Caught_BBCs_Shocking_First_Response_to_Terror_Attack.asp

And while we are on the topic of institutionalized arrogant and intellectually dishonest reporting, for a revealing and at times humorous post-script to the French court decision that exonerated Phillipe Karsenty from libel for accusing France2 Israel "reporter" Charles Enderlein of reporting the obviously staged story of the "shooting" of Mohammed al-Dura, see here:

www.weeklystandard.com/.../284xawsb.asp

The title and subtitle of the article say it all:   "L'Affaire Enderlin:  Being a French journalist means never having to say you're sorry."

Another reason why the term "journalistic ethics" is little more than an oxymoron.

Hershel Ginsburg

Jerusalem / Efrata

Hey Jackson, are you the one and the same JEDyer over on "Contentions"?

hg

Mr. Ginsburg. Your comments are consistently fair and honest. Thanks.

boxofrox -- thank you for your kind words, but I generally eschew the formality of "Mr.".  ginzy, hershel, or heshy will do fine thank you.

If you insist on formal titles, then mine is "Dr." (Ph.D. in molecular biology & genetics) but I really do prefer to dispense with titles.

Hershel (Heshy) Ginsburg (a.k.a., ginzy)

Jerusalem / Efrata

peretz,

Yes, it is very weird that when I searched that electronic page, I could not find one mention of this atrocity. I agree with you that that was strange indeed..

I am not sure why anyone finds it surprising, in the aftermath of the China earthquake there was a dearth of information at the NYTimes, I got most of my information from the South China Morning Post. Americans don't really care about the deaths of people in other countries.

There is a drug war raging in the border towns in Mexico. Does anyone in the states even know or care?  If I wanted detailed information about Israel I go to www.jpost.com. Any reasonably intelligent person should have a wide variety of news sources.

As to the BBC, yes I decry it, but am not so stupid as to be swayed by their stupidity. I tend to become more pro-Israel when I see such stupidity, not less.

The untrustworthyness of the Times, the BBC and other "mainstream" news organizations has driven a lot of people into the embrace of Internet blogs and talk radio yackmeisters.

"Americans don't really care about the deaths of people in other countries."

That's an overgeneralization, Blackton. Americans (judging by the MSM's coverage) care deeply about the deaths of Palestinian babes at the hands of those Israeli butchers. And the building of "colonial outposts" on land that will form some future Palestinian state. These are evils that cannot be too frequently invoked as the grounds for aid cuts, academic and economic boycotts and UN protest votes.

dkrieger, hah, good one, but that kind of proves my point. If people only care about the deaths of people because it advances their political agenda, then they don't truly care about the people at all.

To be honest, I shed more tears over the deaths of the children in China's earthquake than the poor children in Burma, but I lived in China for a long time so I know I am as guilty as anyone.

"Hey Jackson, are you the one and the same JEDyer over on "Contentions"?" hg

Don't know what contentions is. Can you set up a link, Hershy?

Jackson:  I've been away, and before I went, couldn't find you.  In any case, wanted to tell you about listening to BBC on NPR a couple of weeks back when they reported on the Olmert scandal vis a vis bribery.  Not only was his briber American (fair enough) but he was a "Jewish American."  They can't help themselves, can they?  

"Jackson:  I've been away, and before I went, couldn't find you."

In the good ol' summertime I try to post less and less and go out more and more, Molly.

"In any case, wanted to tell you about listening to BBC on NPR a couple of weeks back when they reported on the Olmert scandal vis a vis bribery.  Not only was his briber American (fair enough) but he was a "Jewish American."  They can't help themselves, can they? "

The BBC is worse than even the NY Times.  

Orwell modeled his 1984 total State on the BBC culture.  

I am told (I stopped listening to the BBC some time ago)  that their coverage of the rampage in Jerusalem by Palestinian Arab was covered by the Beeb as if it were the fault of the Jewish State.