Comments on: Who Is Missing From This List?

By: Haha

Haha — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:38:19 +0000

or b) they employ someone who openly admits he doesn’t know much about history, doesn’t check his facts properly, and that even when alerted ‘at lunchtime’ that there was a serious factual problem with an article *still* doesn’t bother checking it properly. People used to lose their jobs for that sort of incompetency.

By: Mictalan

Mictalan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:49:59 +0000

MattG:
What should concern The Guardian is that many perfectly rational people believe that its quite likely that a) they employ someone idiotic enough to think this sort of smear was a good idea

Name a perfectly rational person who thinks this was some kind of smear. Go on, find a single, rational person who thinks this was anything other than a computing error.

By: Festmény képeslapok

Festmény képeslapok — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:38:17 +0000

No comment..

By: zkharya

zkharya — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:30:03 +0000

“The list is wrong in even another sense: there is no “Palestine”. No country is or was ever called “Palestine”.”

Yeah, that is a dumb reason to criticise the list. The person simply listed the land/country whence Arafat thought he came.

I’m surprised they changed it to “Pal Terr.”. Presumably because they think it can make more of a point this way than last time.

By: Haha

Haha — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:11:02 +0000

Have we established yet whether the Simon Rogers version (I don’t bother checking facts even when I am told at lunchtime something is wrong, and I’ve a laughably weak knowledge of history) is correct, or the antisemitic theory?

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:45:39 +0000

Fabian,
Interestingly the guardian have updated the list again to change Palestine to Pal Terr.

So In short this was originally a list that omitted all the 3 Israeli PMs, placed Israel in a smaller font in the spreadsheet than every other country and called the area Palestine.

Hmm – despite this – some people still believe this was all simply a computer glitch and nothing to do with showing where the people at the Guardians’ sympathies lie!

By: Grainger

Grainger — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:54:29 +0000

The list is ‘wrong’ in so many ways because the Guardian cannot admit to itself that it has a problematic attitude to reporting events in the Middle East.

This is really a story about shoddy journalism if anything.

By: CookieCutter

CookieCutter — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:45:31 +0000

Even the computer hate jewish

Rapi, you don’t know how stupid your pigeon English antisemitism reads.

By: Fabian from Israel

Fabian from Israel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:37:30 +0000

The list is wrong in even another sense: there is no “Palestine”. No country is or was ever called “Palestine”. Usually, you can use “Palestinian territories” (Although I prefer Judea and Samaria).

And if the Arabs continue in the path of Hamas, there won’t be a Palestine country ever, (but many more Palestinian refugees).

By: Grainger

Grainger — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:01:27 +0000

Thanks Zin, if you are uncomfortable with facts this is your problem.

It would be interesting, however, for Rogers to provide an answer as to why the text in the D96 cell was smaller than in the other spreadsheet cells.