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To:
letters@haaretz.co.il
Subject: Has Barghouti deserved your good PR service?
Date: Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:06 AM
To: Ha'aretz Letter Editor
Dear Editor!
Has Barghouti deserved your good PR service?
In Haaretz of May 21, you reported that that Barghouti had been found
guilty of 5 murders by a panel of three judges. In tens of additional
murders he was involved as leader of a terror organization. Yet none of
these proven crimes seem to deter Ha'aretz from treating him as a hero,
with a large smiling front page, picture in victory pose. At first I
thought this was simply a mistaken choice of photo, but the prominent
title: "Jail was a good carrier move for Marwan" convinced me that the
choice was intentional.
"Good" Should a mass murderer's possible future success be called "good"?
And, one may ask, why you call him "Marwan"? Is he a family member to the
editor? Or a popular hero in Israel, like 'Arik'?
The excellent PR service you provide to Barghouti is unworthy of a
newspaper which claims to provide unbalanced journalism and I ask you to
do a rethink and a revised article about this criminal. Alternatively
please explain to your readers, and to victims of Barghouti, why in your
eyes is this murderer a sympathic hero.
Respectfully,
Y.M. |
