“Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can’t fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.” It is an amazing g-force terminal velocity, neck whipping mad mad mad mad world of cardboard characters, infotainment, dead-end commercialized propaganda that makes a grown dude cry. Yeah, I am in the local rag, now a once a week thin shadow of its old self, the Newport Lincoln County Leader . One long Commentary out today, and then a defense of a previous one whereupon two fools attack my credentials and took issue with the term “genocide” and the very idea of Nakba and “ethnic cleansing.” The forced expulsion of Women & Children from Tantura May 1948. In his 2013 book, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel , Ari Shavit, the former Haaretz columnist, writes about the massacre in Lydda (Lod) and the expulsion from Ramle. Shavit’s book was widely read in the Jewish community, and for many Jews, it was the first time that they heard about a massacre and expulsion that Israel committed in the 1948 war. For some, it was a shocking revelation. But
