Sigh.

Suicide boming in Jerusalem – at least 10 dead, and 10 more critically wounded. Laura King, the idealistic staff writer who does a lot of the Middle East stuff for the LA Times and with whom we’ve had run-ins before, manages to make this a story about the firefight between Israeli troops and the Palestinian terrorists who fled into a heavily residential area after shelling them.

Her article showcases her usual disingenuous strategy of building in plausible deniability on a literal level coupled with suffocating bias on a rhetorical level. That bias is expressed through, among other things, tone – graphic depictions of Palestinian suffering coupled with cold and descriptions of the bus bombing; strategic placement of points of view – the Palestinian viewpoint at the top, the Israeli viewpoint at the very end; subtle weakening words and phrases