Zerbisias: Idiotarian
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At the Toronto Star, poor Antonia Zerbisias has the weight of the world on her shoulders, doing real journalism, damn it, and all those dastardly blog lizards won’t leave her alone! Why, sometimes the little upstarts even have the temerity to … criticize her! The nerve! Zerbisias is out there, somewhere. (Hat tip: Mississauga Matt.)
Every day when I log on to my e-mail, I find at least 50 missives, mostly pro-Israel but increasingly pro-Palestinian as well, presenting their version of reality. Ugly debates rage over whether the Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera should be allowed into Canada because, quite frankly, some people don’t want its version of reality to be seen here. Entire Web sites spring up to monitor what journalists do, to call us “Idiotarians,” to condemn us as anti-Semitic or anti-Muslim, or to alert readers to bombard us with more e-mail. Other sites (memri.org) translate from Arabic what is claimed to be hateful daily news stories about Jews and Israel while other sites still (the newly launched aad-online.org) claim to do the same from Hebrew about Muslims and Arabs.
I think she’s secretly disappointed that she didn’t make the final round.