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Echoing the statement above, with some more elucidation: there is no objective criteria under which the Telegraph is a more objective (or ""reputable"") source than Counterpunch. The Telegraph was a part of the Hollinger International chain of newspapers, whose board of directors happened to include one Richard Perle  a known American conservative and supporter of the Israeli right-wing. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is likewise a think tank and reliquary for Israeli right-wingers (retired military and diplomatic staff especially) and funded by convicted felon Michael Milken. It is not hard to see that a right-wing ideologue Weiner did a hit-piece on Edward Said using funds from a right-wing think tank, published it in a right wing journal (Commentary), that was picked up by a sympathetic newspaper (the Daily Telegraph).

Presenting either the Jerusalem Center or the Telegraph as ""objective"" is an obvious distortion, that only owes itself to the right-wing media having warped the meaning of ""objective"" and ""fair and balanced"". The attack pieces on Edward Said have to be treated as just that - attack pieces, not scholarship. If we run them here, Said's supporters get a free shot to refute them as well.  "