Ian Katz Cries and Lies

Zach
Huffington Post Monitor
11 February '11

We didn't comment on it at the time, but recently Israeli ambassador to the UK Ron Prosor published a scathing critique of the Guardian's coverage of the Palestine Papers. If you haven't read it already you should do so right away and then come back here, because the Guardian has fired back in the form of an editorial by Ian Katz, Deputy Editor. The main thing we learn from the article is that though the Guardian is quite happy to attack anything they can get their hands on (and fact check later) they cannot handle being the target of criticism themselves. I'm not going to go through the whole post by I did want to hit some highlights.

Mr. Katz's tactics on this post are somewhat short of fisking. Instead it is more in the style of "Can you believe he said that?!" repeated over and over, with the assumption that the audience would simply accept Mr. Katz's view as true and Mr. Prosor's view as false. But with the Huffington Post, that's not a bad assumption. Where this was less pronounced is in Mr. Prosor's attacks on the Guardian itself, but we will get to that in a minute.

First we'll talk about the Palestine Papers, where Mr. Katz continues to cling to the myths that his paper peddled:

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