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From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield.

All over the world this week, people watched as the fighting in the Middle East escalated. Last week, we looked at the way the story was playing in the region itself,

and this week we'll once again survey the Arab and Israeli coverage, but we'll also reflect

on how the story is being told in other parts of the world, including our own.

As we slice and dice the coverage we find, as in most media analysis,

but especially this story, that no observer is truly neutral,

that the idea of a solid middle ground from which we can judge others

who seem so hopelessly stuck in the bogs of ideology is a myth.

So with that said, we turn first to J.J. Goldberg.

He's the editor of the Forward, the 109-year-old Jewish newspaper published here in New York.

This week, his paper reported on the peculiar silence of bloggers on the political left.

On the right, the bloggers are going on and on about those horrible

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