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ANTI-ISRAELI BIAS?
2015 Nov 19 from Wendy
Dear Edward Griffin, What you are doing for Freedom is very important and courageous too. And the news you put out always seems to be accurate. I always read what you write, but get concerned about the ‘anti Israel’ bias, which definitely appears regularly.

I understand that the reason that the concert hall in Paris was attacked is that, 9 years ago, it held a pro Israel meeting. Please make sure you report things fairly and find out from Israel exactly what is going on. I strongly suggest you subscribe to Israel Today, their website. Interesting to note that, when the Israelis behave badly, they are always the first to talk about it.

REPLY FROM GEG:
Hello Wendy. Thank you for your compliments about our news service. I am surprised, however, to learn that you think we have an anti-Israeli bias. We try very hard to have no bias whatsoever – except for truth.

We often criticize the actions of corrupt or power-mad politicians in the United States government, but that does not mean we have an anti-American bias. Just the opposite is true. We believe that the highest obligation of patriotism is to oppose corruption in leadership.

Your statement about the motive for attacking the concert hall is an interesting case in point. That is the kind of story that we probably would publish but only if it could be documented from a reliable source, such as ISIS, itself. If true, that is exactly the kind of thing that ISIS leaders would be anxious for the world to know.

Can you tell us the source of this claim? If the source is the Israeli government, the only way we would report on it is to identify its source and let the readers decide for themselves how reliable it is. However, if we did that, our report could be said to have an anti-Israeli bias. It is very hard to be totally honest in a conflict with such strong passion on both sides.

I would be glad to re-examine any news story that you feel was not truthful. If that can be independently documented by reliable parties who are not, themselves, aligned with combatants in the conflict, we will gladly retract the story and replace it with a more accurate report.

Thank you for writing and especially for caring about truth.