More shameless bias

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At the NY Times. Surprise.

Lots of blogs have exposed the Times' apparent "pieta" hoax, and the Times has now "clarified" that the man in the photo isn't dead, just injured. Yeah, we knew that. That picture, in the context of the slide show in which it appears, would sure seem to be trying to suggest otherwise but, hey, the Times has apologized and clarified (and revised the caption), so it's all ok now.

Here's the other thing about that slide show. It's part of a pair. A balanced pair, perhaps? One series ("Attack in Tyre") features slides of horror and destruction in Tyre along with a story of pain and despair ("jumble of pieces of people's lives"). The other ("Silence in Haifa") features mostly empty streets and a few people resting comfortably in shelters in Haifa, a little wreckage, a lot of blood smeared on the floor of a very intact store. And Steve Erlanger's incredibly insipid narrative (Israelis are "proud," "combative" and "anxious").

Balanced? You decide.

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