Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler responds to criticism of a recent report by Molly Moore about seven friends from Jenin and how their lives turned out. Getler writes:
I did not read this story the way the complaining readers did. I viewed it as a valuable exploration of real lives and real transitions that are part of a brutal and tragic struggle. This is what reporters do. They try as best they can to get inside all sides in a conflict, including the resistance, whether in Iraq, Chechnya or the West Bank.
But it is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that is guaranteed to draw letters, generated in part by pro-Israel U.S. organizations that analyze such articles and tell their members where and to whom to write.
Aside from how Getler read the article as a story about “the resistance,” we wonder if Getler was referring to EyeOnThePost’s July 19 critique, which was mentioned in a recent HonestReporting communique. CAMERA also ran a critique on this article.
