The New York Times reportedly died yesterday, succumbing to an advanced case of BDS (hat tip: BtB).
It would be impolite — not to say McCarthyite — to question their patriotism, so let’s just say their judgment, priorities and professionalism are in (continued) doubt. I found the pictures endearing, so they didn’t have much effect on me.
Much worse was the Times’ editorial the same day, which Soccer Dad demolished in a post very much worth reading.
And I wonder whether the Times would ever employ sarcasm in a news story about Islamic religious practices, as Steven Erlanger did in a November 21 story that ended with these two paragraphs regarding kosher food:
In another development, the European Union said it would dispatch a monitoring mission to help the Palestinians run the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, under a deal finished last week. The European team will eventually comprise some 40 observers to ensure that customs and entry procedures meet international standards.
It will be just in time: on Sunday, Israeli customs agents blocked a shipment from Gaza to Israel of a popular confection of chocolate and marshmallow called krembos. The illicit krembos displayed forged seals certifying that they were kosher. The chief rabbinate said that no kosher krembos were ever imported into Israel.
Ed Lasky’s article in the American Thinker on “The New York Times and the Jews” is also worth reading.
Jason Maoz covers the Soccer Dad post in “A Monopoly No More,” a theme noted last year in The Jewish Press in “Truth, Terrorism and the Times.” Let’s put it this way: Anne Lieberman is still publishing every day, hitting new heights, and Daniel Okrent is . . . gone.