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