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Live Healthier Without The N.Y. Times
Helen Freedman New York, NY 27.02.02
My decision months ago to cancel my New York Times subscription because of the paper`s flagrant anti-Israel bias has proved to be a beneficial one. I now start my days without the anger and frustration I used to have when reading the Times`s insipid editorials and biased op-eds.
Friends brought to my attention the outrageous trio of articles featured in the Times on weekend of February 1-3. In an overtly slanted manner the Times saw fit to highlight on its front page the fact that a relatively small number of Israeli reservists are reluctant to serve. Where are the articles about the millions of Israelis who serve in the army and then continue with their reserve duty well into middle age, leaving jobs and family in order to serve their country?
The second violation of truth was the impossible magazine feature by Deborah Sontag, who tried to awaken sympathy for the poor Arab who can no longer tend to his olive trees. Did the article talk about the huge theft of monies meant for the Arab people by their ``chairman`` Arafat? Why didn`t Sontag give us some information about this? And how can she present Abed al-Raouf Barbakh, a violent Fatah terrorist, as a ``kind of youth counselor"? The only 'counseling' he would do would be to encourage thousands of Arab youngsters to become suicide bombers.
The piece de resistance was the Arafat op-ed piece filled with the usual lies which have been disproven so many times that no person with any sense would even waste a moment reading them. Why would The New York Times feel it was worth any space to carry this fallacious, deceptive, dissembling message?
My recommendation to all New York Times readers is to follow my example - cancel your subscription and lead a much healthier, less stressful, less frustrating life.
Please feel free to email me at afsi@rcn.com to tell me about your decision to cancel your Times subscription. Spread the word to your friends. You`ll be glad you did.
Helen Freedman
New York, NY
afsi@rcn.com
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