“On all that I have seen, Bowen’s reporting from the Middle East has been informed and scrupulous. The judgement against him is an unwarranted slur on his professionalism and a threat to the notion of objective journalism.”
I kid you not. This is Oliver Kamm on Bowen, whose coverage of Israel is, apparently, informed, scrupulous, professional and objective.
What an extraordinary post!
And Kamm reckons he’s a friend of Israel?
More likely he’s a friend of Bowen and protecting his buddy from richly-deserved, long-time-coming criticism.
Journos, huh? What a shower. (No offence, Chas.)
I’m very surprised at Kamm. Thanks for the heads up
I think he’s wrong and I have commented to that effect below his article. He is a true liberal (in the Scottish Enlightenment rather than the French tradition) but on this occasion his wholly laudable liberal instinct has got in the way of the facts.
I was surprised too because Kamm is so often spot on.
Kamm is not spot-on there. How blind can someone be?