In Gaza, New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks was deeply involved in the Hamas military deception operation that claimed the lives of Ismail Bakr, Mohammed Bakr, Ahed Bakr, and Zakaria Bakr. Now Hicks and writer Kareem Fahim have teamed up for the New York Times’ misleading and utterly nonfactual piece “Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians…
Stop telling me what to write
June 14, 2015
I’m being flooded with messages from people telling me what to write. You need to stop it. The main reason you have to knock this off is that you’re living in a fantasy world. I deal only with reality. In fact I have no patience whatsoever for people who delude themselves. Both my parents refused…
Journalist confirms Gaza beach deception operation
April 10, 2015
I just got off the phone with a journalist whose name you’d recognize. This person will remain anonymous. The journalist confirmed that the killing of Ismail, Mohammed, Ahed, and Zakaria Bakr on the Gaza beach, July 16, 2014, was a Hamas deception operation. This is a person who is very angry at what happened and…
New York Times, please contact the Mossad
November 5, 2014
Last night I was looking for photos of explosions in Gaza that I could check using the equalization technique. This method of exposing composite images was given to me by a Czech photographer angry at the injustice to which Israel is subjected. In my search, I discovered that a photographer who has no such scruples…
My second interview since 2002
May 6, 2014
Here’s my second interview since 2002. It’s with bassist Joe Burcaw. We have a lot in common, and we would likely disagree on nearly everything if we got into it politically and socially. But why would I do that to Joe? I like his playing. That’s all that matters. There was one question that I…
Lip servicing ourselves into hell
February 19, 2014
I recently joined Facebook. Against my will. Alas, it’s turned out to be what I feared: a place where uninformed opinions based entirely on emotions are hurled around like…like…this. “It began with a food fight between children.” That’s what Facebook is like, unfortunately. Today the Horror That Must Be Stopped was the bill that Democratic…
I used to be a journalist
December 30, 2013
I was a history major, and I used to be a journalist. When I wrote about musicians, I never had preconceived ideas about the story I’d produce. It was entirely up to the interviewee. In my military-history books, I go only where the facts take me. So I get angry when I see “respected journalists”…
At least I’m not confused
September 29, 2013
I have tons and tons and tons of problems. If I sat down with you to tell you what’s wrong with me, we’d be there for days. And you’d end up like that poor cat in the videos, the one with its jaw hanging open. You’d marvel that I didn’t just put an end to…