Posted on 06/14/2021 6:02:03 PM PDT by Conservat1
October 17, 1929 5:00 am
The Arab newspaper “Felestin,” controlled by the Jerusalem Grand Mufti, made a sensational onslaught on American newspapers yesterday, singling out the “New York Times.” The paper asked: “Is there no honesty in the American press?”
The Mufti denied interviews with Joseph Levy, “New York Times” correspondent, Ketchum of the “London Daily Express,” and Pierre Van Paassen, representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The Mufti charges misrepresentation and distortion, but makes no specific references. Of his interview with Mr. Van Paassen, the Mufti wrote in the English edition of the “Felestin” that it was merely an informal talk.
Mr. Van Paassen stated before his departure that when he called on the Mufti for the interview, the head of the Moslem Supreme Council offered him inducements, including women, if he would take the Mufti’s side and color the news according to his personal views and ambitions.
Those silly Mufti Councils. Don’t they realize that,even back then, the NYT reporters weren’t into women.
Ouch...
Should have offered them boys.
L
The paper asked: “Is there no honesty in the American press?”
I’ve been asking the same thing for 30 years.
L
And a short eight years later he was su@king Hitler’s dick.
5.56mm
Me too. But not in the way the hypocrite lying Mufti did. BTW in 1935 he also “denied” that he had anything to do with Mussolini...
MUFTI DISAVOWS CHARGES OF TIE WITH MUSSOLINI
21 April, 1935
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1935/04/21/01/article/7
The more things change…
I thought this was a current article when I first read it.
I posted it in ‘religion’ forum... maybe I should have add in title the zldate...
I read Pierre van Paasen when I was very young, and I was impressed with his books. I may read them again in my dotage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_van_Paassen
#5. Re “I’ve been asking the same thing for 30 years” re “honesty in the American press”.
AMATEUR. I’ve been asking the same thing since 1967 and ended up helping to create AIM (Accuracy in Media) in 1969. The odor of “bias” was strong back then and now is an overwhelming leftist/Marxist stench like an outhouse on fire.
To the NY Times and Wash. Post, among others, “NEWS” are only the starting letters of the four directions of movement on earth.
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