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any decent investigative reporting on the middle east?
Historically, I have looked to Salon to report on what the mainstream press is afraid to. I am a liberal democrat, and feel that in letting perverse acts take place at Abu Ghraib our government has let us down. However, I also feel that Salon has let us down by not digging into
some of the things going on in the Middle East currently.
FOX news might not cover things that the White House calls them and asks them not to cover, any many outlets in the mainstream press might fail to publish what might lose them sponsors. I feel Salon fails to cover aspects of conflict in the Middle East that they think might not appeal to their left-wing liberal readership. In doing this, Salon risks losing its hard-won credentials and readership.
But there are some topics that Salon could be looking at and hasn't been:
1. The content of Hamas's educational programs for Palestinians. When Americans hear "education" they think the three r's, or maybe in Hamas's case, the 4 r's (ie--add religion). But Hamas describes its program as an "education of resistance". What is that, really?
2. Were the "cartoon" protests in the Arab world spontaneous or planned? Did all those people get so upset by a picture of the Prophet with a firecracker in his turban? There is evidence that Muslims (or their clerics) were shown the 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper + a few others which were much more offensive (ie a dog sodomizing Mohammed (PBUH).
3. Why did Iran and the Arab American League "react" to the cartoons by seeking or printing anti-Jewish ones?
I would urge SALON to consider an editorial re-think of your selective focus on Middle East issues.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Ross
Newton, MA
former Salon Premium Subscriber
