Like I said, Bill, I check in every now and then to see if things have changed (ever hopeful for some silly reason), but they never have.


Don, I don't know which part of "all of them" you don't understand. The premise that Arafat rejected the peace process is the standard orthodoxy in all of the major news media (or at least was for several years... so that's several years worth of lying). All of the anchors and commentators promoted this idea. They never had any guests on who refuted this idea (or at least they never did while I was watching, and believe me, I used to watch and listen to those networks a lot).

A real journalist would not only have reported the version of events that Clinton and Barak were asserting. A real journalist would have also asked what the Palestinians had to say about it, and reported that with the same frequency as they reported the other version. They did not. The fact that they did not even acknowledge that there might be another version shows that they had no interest in real journalism, and were simply supplying propaganda to people who were willing to believe whatever they said without ever bothering to check it out.

The fact that so few people (possibly no people) who watch or listen to the public networks are even aware that there is another narrative of those events, is more than ample proof of this.