Showing posts with label US Intelligence and Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Intelligence and Iran. Show all posts

Thursday, April 05, 2012

The Middle East Media Sampler 4/5/2012: Homemade Statistics Replace Journalism

From DG:
1) Damn lies and statistics

On vacation, the incoming New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief, Jodi Rudoren tweeted:
What do #Israel and #Iran have in common? Jailing journalists, according to @cjrhttp://bit.ly/H9BdgT
This led to a number of critiques of the study, including Elder of Zion's How to misuse statistics and Omri Ceren's One Academic’s Breathtakingly Dishonest Attack on Israel’s Press Freedoms, and questions about Rudoren's choice of "factoid" to publicize. Apparently after reading some of the recommended critiques, Rudoren expressed regrets: