Another blogger who is also part of the Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers collective mentioned the Berkeley Daily Planet.
THE BERKELEY DAILY PLANET
Published on a weekly basis.
Distributed FREE
Worth every penny of it
The Berkeley Daily Planet is probably one of the worst excuses for journalism ever, run by a woman who imagines herself a writer of stature. Though that presumption is based on the flimsiest of pretexts. Lets face it, Becky O'Malley is a shoddy editor, a lousy editorialist, and pretentious in either role.
She is, in many ways, a typical Berkeleyite. Revolutionarily ignorant. Vainly so.
I used to read the Berkeley Daily Planet fairly regularly. Nowadays I read it at best sporadically, and only when I want to get my dander up.
Signable letter of outrage at the Berkeley Daily Planet's anti-Israel bias here:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/fight-anti-semitic-rhetoric-at-the-berkeley-daily-planet/signatures.html
Daily Planet Watchdog, which critiques the BDP here:
http://dpwatchdog.com/
Blog posting that excerpts the most egregious crap from the BDP here:
http://deathbynoodles.blogspot.com/2009/07/daily-planet-watchdog-and-bitter-bitch.html
And a posting about the BDP here:
http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2009/08/berkeley-daily-planet-hatreds-own.html
Given that the Berkeley Daily Planet is little more than an advertising freebie, and thus publishes what the advertisers will approve of, you can no doubt figure out what point of view rules in Berkeley. It is a tragedy that a place once known for intelligent discourse, innovation, and the free-speech movement, is now a pretentious middle-class burb, with little to boast of other than being in the forefront of comfortable arm-chair extremism.
The Berkeley Daily Planet perfectly evokes the stodginess and mental cowardice that has overtaken the left.
They are liberal only in their self-righteousness. Not in their intellectual processes.
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This is not germane to this issue, but it really highlights what Becky O'Malley is all about:
Berkeley Daily Planet Reporter Quits Over Paper’s "Lack of Journalistic Integrity"
By Will Harper
Wednesday, Sep. 24 2008 @ 10:54AM
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2008/09/berkeley_daily_planet_reporter.php
Quote: Berkeley Daily Planet reporter Judith Scherr abruptly resigned from the paper last week after a dispute with editor and owner, Becky O’Malley, over journalistic ethics.
“After 2.5 years of being insulted, berated and lied to by the Daily Planet’s executive editor – and having my stories distorted by the deletion of quotes from persons Becky O’Malley hates and the addition of her nasty remarks about such people – I have left the Planet,” Scherr said in an email she sent to friends last Thursday.
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“I could no longer be part of a newspaper with such a lack of journalistic integrity.”
End quote.
I never would've presumed journalistic integrity in the first place.
It is Berkeley, after all.
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Heh heh heh. You are STILL reading the Berkeley Daily Planet.
---Grant Patel
It's horribly addictive, like crack.
There is a petition circulating, for what its worth:
http://www.gopetition.com/online/29508.html_*
Fight Anti-Semitic Rhetoric At The Berkeley Daily Planet Newspaper
The Berkeley Daily Planet has run (and continues to run) articles deemed to be anti semitic which have solicited protests including from local community rabbis, mayors of Berkeley, Emeryville and Oakland, assembly members, state senators and 4 Berkeley city council members (see BP issue June 4 - 10)
Petition:
WE ARE JEWS AND NON-JEWS…
We abhor the deliberate and willful publication of anti-Semitic and other hateful rhetoric and screeds by the Berkeley Daily Planet.
We stand with the free speech rights of those who would criticize the Berkeley Daily Planet for its obsessive and one-sided campaign against the State of Israel.
We join these people in insisting that the publisher and editor of the Daily Planet display integrity and responsibility to ensure that their pages are devoid of irresponsible misstatements of facts whose sole malicious intent is to besmirch Jews at large, the State of Israel, and individual citizens who decry the Daily Planet’s practices.
Contributions gratefully accepted. Please send to checks made out to IACEB and post to Israel Action Committee of the East Bay, POB 9354, Berkeley, CA 94709
For more information about The Daily Planet, go to:
http://www.dpwatchdog.com
At Becky O'malley's picnic a few days back, she was complaining about the Planet hemorrhaging $$$$.
Its just a matter of time before it goes belly up.
A challenge for your readers;
The 64 dollar Challenge
In the January 14, 2010 issue Terry Fletcher, claiming to be Jewish and anti-Israel, writes in part as follows:
In that light, I would also like to respond to the letter signed by Jonathan Bernstein of the Anti-Defamation League and others the week before, which states of Becky O’Malley that “she has never, to our knowledge, published any hate speech directed at other [non-Jewish] minorities.” I can only conclude that the signatories of that letter do not regularly read the Planet, or that their sensitivity to what constitutes hate speech directed a non-Jews is lacking. Over the years, I have read many letters to the Planet that have expressed anti-Black, anti-Latino, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and misogynist viewpoints. In fact many of the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim letters are submitted by self-described Israel supporters, a prime example being a particularly hateful op-ed the Planet published on Oct. 15, 2009. (This is only one example out of many.)
He ends his piece with a joke. At least we think it is a joke:
In my opinion, neither that op-ed nor the infamous Arianpour one merited publication. I support Becky O’Malley’s efforts to consider the effects of what she prints and to take into account the detrimental effects of spreading hatred and prejudice in our community.
We concede that Fletcher has a point about the October 15, 2009 article. It was a “pro-Israel” piece which at its best was illiterate. O’Malley routinely rejects articulate and well reasoned pro-Israel letters. Without any doubt whatsoever in our minds, this was published by O’Malley explicitly to embarrass the pro-Israel community. See here.
Here is the $64 challenge
DPWatchDog will pay $64 to the first person who sends in a Daily Planet letter, commentary or article that contains hate speech directed against blacks, Latinos, gays, immigrants, Asians, or women, and we will continue to pay for each one that we receive that was printed in 2003-2009, O’Malley’s reign of terror. How’s that for a fun treasure hunt.
This is a not a trivial challenge. It has been our contention that the Daily Planet publishes hate speech directed against Jews, or as a stalking horse, Israel. This does not appear to be not in dispute. We have therefore concluded that the Daily Planet is in its totality probably anti-Semitic. However, we have also acknowledged that if the Daily Planet also publishes hate speech directed against, for example, gays, blacks, Latinos, Asians, or women then perhaps the paper is just generally hateful for the sake of free speech and not specifically anti-Semitic. Fletcher says that there are plenty of such pieces, and says that the ADL, et al. are mistaken probably because they do not read the Daily Planet. We don’t know about the ADL but we can tell you that we have not only read the Daily Planet, but have scoured every issue since the day O’Malley first went to print. All we could find was one hate filled tome praising the murder of Oakland police officers and one letter which in passing called two city council members, one black (Daryl Moore) and the other white (Gordon Wozniak), “monkeys”. Were it just Moore, we might think racism, but we have to give the writer some benefit of the doubt since the other “monkey” was white.
One further caveat. We have left out of our challenge Arabs and Muslims. “Islamaphobia” has been used by the Daily Planet to describe virtually anything that is pro-Israel. So, to avoid splitting hairs on this, we leave it aside for the moment from our challenge, but encourage our readers to submit examples of alleged anti-Arab or anti-Muslim hate speech. We’ll report back if there is anything out there.
So, if Fletcher is right that the Daily Planet is filled with hate directed at blacks, gays, women, Latinos, or Asians DPWatchDog stands to lose a fortune. Send in your examples and drain our coffers.
http://dpwatchdog.com/64dollar.html
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