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Article: Boycotts And Blame; Should non-Jewish journalists be rebuked for mirroring the muck in Israeli papers?
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- The Jewish Week
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- July 4, 2003
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Mark, Jonathan
The Jewish Week
07-04-2003
Summer's here and media watchers are ready to rumble.
Jewish boycotts have been announced against The New York Times, The Los
Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe,
the Hartford Courant and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Israeli government
has taken the remarkable step of cutting off ties to the BBC in protest of
its "demonization" of Israel, meaning that Israeli government spokesmen
will not be made available to the BBC, BBC journalists will not be eased
through military roadblocks and visa restrictions will be put in place that
may force BBC's bureau chief to rotate out of the country every few months.
The BBC has ...