RUTHFULLY YOURS

By Moshe Phillips

Metro International brands itself as the “world’s largest international newspaper.” But the bottom line is the Swedish owned company consistently slaps its American readers in the face.

There was simply no room in the Philadelphia edition of the Metro newspaper for any mention of the World War Two attack Pearl Harbor on Pearl Harbor Day. There was room for a full page article on a book about the history of burlesque in the 24 page edition, however. The Boston 32 page edition and the New York 40 page edition did not publish any articles about Pearl Harbor either. They each featured the burlesque article and lots of other articles that could have ran on December 8 as well. This was either a horrible oversight or a conscious editorial decision. Either way it is completely unacceptable.

The editors of the online edition of Metro managed to find room for a 335 word Associated Press article about The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. It must be noted that the online article though failed to mention Japan at all!

The Philadelphia Inquirer, by contrast, did carry an extensive article on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 2010. It can be found here: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20101207_Pearl_Harbor_attack_sparked_Philadelphia-area_industrial_boom.html

Metro is a daily newspaper for mass transit commuters and the paper displays a sharply liberal editorial view.

I last wrote about the Metro chain of newspapers in 2008. I examined the paper’s editorial bias against Israel and its blatant ambivalence towards Islamic terrorists and why this matters. Here is an excerpt from what I wrote: “Metro is a ten-year-old import from Sweden. Its US editions are in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Combined, Metro’s US editions have a larger circulation than the Washington Post or the Chicago Tribune. Metro produces about 100 papers in 20 countries and has seven local editions in Canada.” Please see the entire article here http://www.israelnationalnews.com/articles/article.aspx/8088.

Cliff Kincaid, the editor of the AIM Report from Accuracy in Media, researched former top Metro columnist Marc Lamont Hill. Please see Mr. Kincaid’s article at http://www.aim.org/aim-column/oreilly-brings-back-cop-killer-apologist it is well worth reading.

Researching through the last three years of Metro online it appears that they have similarly ignored Pearl Harbor Day each and every year.

There is a correlation to be made between an editorial viewpoint that, as Kincaid has written, “(shows) a consistent refusal to label Muslim terrorists as terrorists” and one that ignores the anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor Montana’s Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin was the sole Member of the U.S. House of Representatives that voted against declaring war on Japan. She was heavily criticized in the press for her vote and did not seek re-election. Much of our modern mainstream media would no doubt have defended Rankin if they were in place at that time. It is easy to imagine JournoList’s campaign to defend her.

Patriotic Americans need to take back the media from the hands of those who do not have this nation’s best interest in mind. In honor of Pearl Harbor Day let’s all commit to that.

© Moshe Phillips