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The directors of the Simon Wiesenthal Center got op-ed space in the LA Times to

Lebanese opposition leader Michel Aoun launched his own news channel, OTV. Ya Libnan writes: Many

The Economist pulls a puff piece on Zakaria Zubeidi (the “West Bank pimpernel”), the most

Reporting for the Daily Telegraph on the weekend prisoner releases, Tim Butcher writes: The changed

After seeing the BBC’s woes with reader comments, The Guardian is tightening up its own

In the Washington Post Hady Amr and Joel Samuels call for shared Israeli-Palestinian sovereignty over

Beirut’s Daily Star reports that government officials are very unhappy that two Israeli journalists, Rinat

The PA ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, appearing on 18 Doughty Street, manages to

* The Daily Telegraph reports that several retired world leaders are forming a group called

the Israeli Broadcasting Authority is scaling back its English broadcasts due to budget concerns. TV

The BBC features a pictorial series of the security fence taken over several years. The

Looks like the BBC responded to the outcry. The now infamous message 62 was removed

Jordan’s King Abdullah’s visiting Canada, where one of his messages (see this Globe & Mail

A group of bloggers monitoring media bias launched a new Wiki site called MediaMythBusters to

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin columnist Herb Denenberg picked up on criticism of the LA Times.

It’s bad enough when MSM coverage describes Qassam rockets as crude. But BBC bureau chief

Khaled Meshaal apologized for Hamas brutality during the Gaza putsch. AP quotes: “What happened, I

Sitcom writer Jeff Astrof got op-ed space in the LA Times to respond to Hamas