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More Ambulance Obfuscation

This week, reporters criticized Israel for not giving unlimited free access to Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances. See for example: ST. PETERSBURG (FLORIDA) TIMES – correspondent Susan Taylor Martin http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/04/Columns/Ambulances_at_bay__wo.shtml THE WASHINGTON POST – correspondent Keith…

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This week, reporters criticized Israel for not giving unlimited free access to Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances. See for example:

ST. PETERSBURG (FLORIDA) TIMES – correspondent Susan Taylor Martin
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/04/Columns/Ambulances_at_bay__wo.shtml

THE WASHINGTON POST – correspondent Keith Richburg (front page article)

Both reporters spent 1,000 words criticizing Israeli policy, and then bury this crucial information at the very end of the article: Israel has stopped ambulances because Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances have already been caught delivering fighters and weapons to the front lines, including transporting a suicide bomb belt hidden in the stretcher.

If you believe these articles represent imbalanced reporting, write a letter to the editor in your own words, using the above points as a basis.

ST. PETERSBURG (FLORIDA) TIMES:
[email protected]
[email protected]

THE WASHINGTON POST:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Don’t forget to include your name, address, and phone number.

===== TIME MAGAZINE PHOTOS ======

Last week, HonestReporting members complained to Time’s photo editor about selective omission in the Time photo essay.

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