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A Town Meeting, a Tape and Terror
By Michael Getler

Sunday, February 16, 2003; Page B06


As war with Iraq draws ever closer and warnings of terrorist attacks -- with Washington in the cross hairs -- grow ever more dire, readers are demanding more alertness and more probing by their local newspaper......

Maybe it's the approach of war, but complaints are also rising from readers who say they see an anti-Israel bias in Post reporting. Two weeks ago, they questioned the timing and motivation of a Style piece on the history of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. Last week, the criticism was of an article Monday by correspondent Molly Moore from the Gaza Strip. This news feature re-created the action and anguish of an Israeli assault with tanks and helicopter gunships that killed 12 Palestinians in a densely populated area. The Post put a lot into this -- a full page of space and excellent graphics and photographs. On balance, I thought the article was powerful and informative, but it had a serious flaw that could have been easily fixed. It took 14 long paragraphs describing the Palestinians' grief and how they are outgunned before it explained that the Israeli mission was to destroy car repair shops and metal foundries, which the Israelis said produce mortars and missiles to be fired at Israeli soldiers, settlements in Gaza and nearby communities in Israel.



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