Letter to Washington Post

Dear Editor, At The Washington Post, it is best to read from the back forward. In the back - the opinion pages - you get the reporting; in the front news section you get opinion. Example: On Friday, 9/30/11, Charles Krauthammer stated on the second to last page of section A (which we will now call page two) that the 10 month building freeze by Israel had the Palestinians "boycotting the talks for nine months, showing up in the 10th, then walking out when the freeze expired” showing clearly that the fault was on the Palestinian side. However, in the so-called news section (toward the front of the paper, now called the back) reporter Joel Greenberg states that "A 10-month Israeli moratorium on new construction in settlements expired last September, leading the Palestinians to break off negotiations". By omitting the 9-month Palestinian boycott and only mentioning what happened in the 10th month, Greenberg clearly switches the blame to Israel. One view is fact - the "opinion" piece, and one is biased - the "news" piece. Only at The Washington Post! Michael Berenhaus