The Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics insists that a newspaper must make certain that headlines ... do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context. Misrepresent, however, is precisely what a headline assigned by the Patriot Ledger to an Aug. 3 column by Richard Cohen does.
A few days after Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote on July 18 that Israel is a mistake because the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism, the newspaper published CAMERA's response.
Washington Post syndicated columnist Richard Cohen asserts in his July 18 commentary Hunker Down With History that Israel itself is a mistake. Historical ignorance and an appeasement mentality underlie such an assertion.