The Post-Partisan Emporium

  American Pravda: War Crimes and Atrocity-Hoaxes in the Israel/Gaza Conflict  RON UNZ   Perhaps more out of habit than anything else, I still read the print edition of the  New York Times  every morning, something I’ve done for well over forty years, though given its sharp decline in quality that may not long continue. But while it does, the editorial selection of the front-page stories provides some important insight into the thinking of the individuals who shape the coverage of America’s national newspaper of record. Last Thursday, most of the world was still reeling from the televised devastation in Gaza, as a densely-populated portion of one of its largest refugee camps was demolished by multiple 2,000-pound Israeli bombs, apparently killing hundreds of helpless Palestinian civilians, most of them women and children. Soon afterward on  CNN , pro-Israel former AIPAC staffer Wolf Blitzer questioned an Israeli military spokesman about the horrific loss of human life and was told that