{"id":284,"date":"2014-08-22T17:27:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-08-22T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:27:31","slug":"open-letter-to-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to the Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ve been writing a couple letters lately. \u00a0If people want peace, the first necessity is a common understanding of basic realities. \u00a0Feel free to write them yourself at\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666666;\">guardian.letters@theguardian.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nRegarding your <a title=\"Guardian defends anti-Hamas ad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2014\/aug\/11\/guardian-publisher-defends-anti-hamas-advert-decision\">defence<\/a> of the anti-Hamas advertising:<\/p>\n<p>While I admire your defence of an advert, the dithering language in which you defended it distresses me. You are a newspaper. You could have easily countered the clamor among your readers with an investigation on whether the human shields argument is TRUE or not. Which, it is. There&#8217;s plenty of evidence out there to make that assertion, or at least defend it. I&#8217;m sure I, Rabbi Shmuley, or any number of your readers would be happy to engage people on this topic. Indeed this is what needs to be done in a forum where more Israel opponents deny Hamas is even firing rockets into Israel.<\/p>\n<p>If all you are is a gossip column for those who want to believe a propaganda line, then by all means continue what you&#8217;re doing. But if you aspire to be journalists, I urge you to at least research a bit and not just be a weather vane for public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ve been writing a couple letters lately. \u00a0If people want peace, the first necessity is a common understanding of basic realities. \u00a0Feel free to write them yourself at\u00a0guardian.letters@theguardian.com &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Regarding your defence of the anti-Hamas advertising: While I admire your defence of an advert, the dithering language in which you defended it distresses me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}