Emails Reveal: Boston Globe Reporter Sucks Up to the Cambridge Peace Commission
…Reporter Cheng, far from having her hackles raised by partisan letter writers telling her how to do her job, was remarkably compliant and in obvious sympathy with her critics. Including Nancy Kaufman’s rather tepid defense of the security barrier as a defense against terror attacks was not Ms. Cheng’s idea, she wrote. You see, it was her editor’s fault. Had she had her way, no dissenting views would have been presented in her column. Here is an excerpt from Ms. Cheng’s email dated December 23rd, 2007:
After I submitted my version on Tuesday, my editor got back to me and said that his ‘defensive driving’ antenna was signaling that we might want to include a quote from somebody who was in favor of the wall. I added this quote in response to his request…In an effort to present a view that might contrast with the quote from the Jewish Community Relations Council, I added Cathy’s [Cathy Hoffman, Director of the Cambridge Peace Commission] statement about humanized exchanges with Palestinians.
Ms. Cheng concludes by writing,
…I am sincerely sorry that I couldn’t do justice to your trip and I thank you for the understanding you have expressed thus far…please also accept my apologies.
Victoria
In a separate email, the Globe reporter further ingratiated herself to the political pilgrims:…