Seriously? You’re quoting DEBKA and expecting me to take you seriously? So much for Arutz Sheva news ever being taken seriously by me anymore. The second you quote DEBKA, you have lost all credibility.
Our enemy, Iran: The EU refuses to call Hezbollah a terror group, allows it to operate more or less freely within EU borders, and what do you think is going to happen now that the Mad Mullah In Chief has called for more terrorist attacks against the West? It isn’t only Jews they’re after, idiots. They will kill you, too.
Why they’re better: No wishy-washy both sides need to stop the violence excuse. Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack by Israeli teenagers on Israeli-Arab teens that left the Arab hospitalized and the Israeli teens in prison.
Up is Down Dept.: An unnamed Egyptian official insists that Egypt isn’t breaking the treaty by sending tanks into Sinai without Israel permission, and anyway, they’re going to do what it takes to clean out the Sinai even if that means amending the treaty. So basically, it’s Mafia rules. What I can’t figure out is why Ynet titled the article “Egyptian official calms fears over Sinai deployment” when it states the exact opposite. What, is Ynet picking up Ha’aretz writers or something?
“The second you quote DEBKA, you have lost all credibility.”
Does the same go for Weekly World News?
Well, for me the same goes when the NYT is quoted.
The same can be said when current “officials” are cited; no credibility in their punditry.
You’re not seriously conflating my jokes about the WWN with DEBKA’s credibility issues, are you? No serious journalist takes them as a serious source of news. I’m rather surprised that INN is using them as a source, but then, I stopped subscribing to their news feed ages ago, so I don’t know much about them anymore.
By the way, you reminded me that they exist, and I found this awesome piece of news about Toy Story 4. It’s going to be rated R!
Heh.
You really can’t compare the Times to DEBKA. You can criticize the Times for their hit pieces on Republicans and conservatives, but you cannot seriously claim that it does not use journalistic practices for the most part. Yes, it seems to violate them with impunity when writing hit pieces, but overall, they do source their stories and back them up. DEBKA is all anonymous and mostly fiction.
I thought I was being funny (maybe not) and that I was agreeing with you that DEBKA’s credibility is on a par with WWN.
Sorry, Gary. My sarcasm detector was evidently broken when I read your comment. But then again, you did get me to go to the site and also tell my friend, who called to laugh with me over the commenters who think that Toy Story 4 as an R-rated movie is a reality. We came up with a tagline for the movie: “No wonder they call him ‘Woody’!”
Ba whaa! “Journalistic practices”, what does that mean in this day and age?
Certainly not something erudite and factual cause they spin everything to conform to their ideology.
One can criticize but not get it out on their pages.
I’ve been criticizing the NYT since the early 1980s when I came into contact with the rubbish they print which had nothing to do with Republicans or conservatives but their opinion of what the story “should be” in Africa and Brazil at the time. I had to keep pinching myself to make sure that my eyes were not lying to me.
Cynic, I’ve worked for newspapers. I won’t disagree that their political news is biased. But overall, writing for a newspaper is a lot harder than writing blog posts. People tend to lump the entire newspaper in with the part they don’t like, but reporters do actually work hard to write stories. They have to pitch the article idea, get approval, interview sources, and research the subject. Yes, I am assuming that reporters actually do all that. Yes, some don’t. But while I chose not to go into the reporting side of things, my friends that did work hard at what they do. Of course, the smartest one joined the business beat and got the highest-paying job. He was a news reporter for a long time and it burned him out.
Meryl,
I’m not saying that some reporters don’t work hard for a story, which gets shoved to page 22, but unfortunately for them they get painted with the stereotype created by the Krugmans, Friedmans and their ilk.
Unfortunate of course, but the media they work for gets a certain reputation and they are painted with the same brush.
People paying good money or spending time for the news are not satisfied when they discover that they were mislead by the big names/anchors, especially when they are called upon to take actions that affect their very futures.
Now if a team of advisors to a comapany produced results on a par with journalistic practices they would have been fired a long time ago.
I should have added to especially when they are called upon to take actions that affect their very futures based on the “information” dispensed by media.