Abstract
lntroduction* The debate over the objectivity of the US news media coverage of the War rages on. Several articles have appeared in the mainstream media since the Israeli invasion of in June 1982 and before, arguing, in one form or another, that the American media were proPLO or tanti-Israel. Typical among these were articles by Leon Wieseltier (New Republic, September 23, 1982), who claimed that tThere is a scandal, and it is the moral and political prestige of the PLO [in media] coverage of the Middle East; and by Robert W. Tucker (Commentary, October 1982) who claimed that unnamed ttWestern governments . . . encouraged the PLO in its maximalist course of ttwinner-take-all, that is, the destruction of Israel. Two other articles which were widely circulated and quoted were Martin Peretz's Lebanon Eyewitness (New Republic, August 2, 1982), and Norman Podhoretz's J'Accuse (Commentary, December 1982). Both were strident attacks on the US media for being pro-PLO and ttanti-Israel. (See Chomsky's counter
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