Bizarre LAT editorial
A Los Angeles Times editorial calls for Hamas to release BBC reporterand actually asks which side is Hamas on? It also compares Hamas to America's Founding Fathers.
The rhetorical and morally obtuse question, " Which side is Hamas on" should be reframed, " Which side is the LA Times editorial board on?" Has there been any editorial that called for the release of hostages who are not journalists?
"With death threats arriving daily, what kind of fearless reporting on Iraq's civil strife, what kind of hard-hitting investigations of death squads and terrorists or political or clerical corruption can be expected from journalists who wish to remain alive? And consider Afghanistan, where two female journalists have been murdered this month in a Taliban campaign of intimidation against women who dare speak out in the media. What kind of civil society can bloom in their silence?
"A modern society, whether in Gaza or Iraq, cannot aspire to political accountability if its press is terrorized. The American founding fathers understood this, and so does the Taliban. Where does Hamas stand?"
If anything, many journalists are so intimidated or so sympathetic to the Palestinians, that they usually refrain from reporting the honest and brutal truths from that part of the world. This is particularly the case in the face of threats from Hamas.