... so it's probably wrong.
Monday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer achieved a new low in an editorial praising bulldozer shahida Rachel Corrie as a "peace activist" and a "young woman of uncommon compassion, committed to fairness for Palestinians" who "left an impressive legacy". It's disgraceful enough for the P-I to whitewash Corrie's reprehensible support for a terrorist movement and her tragic but reckless death where she placed herself in the path a moving vehicle.
But the P-I takes the cake by claiming that it has proof disputing the Israeli military inquiry that exonerated the bulldozer driver
But we ought to withhold final judgment. Some statements and photos seem to contradict a military prosecutor's conclusion.What photos? There are no such photos. If there were such a photo, it would certainly be newsworthy, but why hasn't it been published or even discussed in any news story? The only known photos of the incident are posted on this pro-Palestinian website. Some of these photos were taken well before the accident, others were taken after the accident. One of these photos was (mistakenly) widely published shortly after Corrie's death and subsequently retracted (by the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times)
Of course it's possible that the P-I has information on photographs that the rest of us haven't seen yet. So I've emailed Glenn Drosendahl, the P-I's reader representative, asking the P-I to either publish the details of these photographs or to issue a retraction. I eagerly await his reply.
UPDATE Oliver Kamm eloquently takes apart the P-I's canonization of Rachel Corrie.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 01, 2003 04:43 PMAfter the Blethen's (owners of the Seattle Times) administer last rites to the Times/PI JOA (Joint Operating Agreement), we won't likely have the PI to kick around any longer. I'll miss Horsey, but not much else...
Posted by: TimF on July 1, 2003 11:43 PMyou did not hear it from me, but supposedly 7/31 is the last date for the paper
Posted by: jannol on July 2, 2003 01:02 AMBut we need the PI so that Stephen has a good source of stuff to make fun of!
Posted by: Mike Silverman on July 2, 2003 02:04 PMGreat blog, Stefan. One of ten now, I read daily! :o(
Will Saint Crepe ever die?!
Posted by: Kevin on July 3, 2003 12:04 AMMr. Horsey is as good a cartoonist as he is naive and dreadful as a political philosopher. I'll miss the first half.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on July 3, 2003 10:40 AM