All these conclusions seem evident from Ackerman s presentation, but she never makes them explicit. One side of the story is no more true than another, it is simply another point of view, another perspective, another opinion. This is the relativization of facts that has come to define the work of the press in Israel and the United States. Any reader of Deborah Sontag s articles from Israel in the New York Times will quickly recognize the pattern. The world is presented as consisting of opposing opinions, none more or less true than others.
Some people just happen to have one set of views and others have another.
There is no real truth, but the best approximation would probably be a compromise among the two a middle ground between them. Of course, a middle ground between a truth and a falsehood is itself a falsehood, since everything which is not true must be false. Each compromise, then, is a betrayal of the truth in favor of a view which holds that opinion is king. This is precisely the view which prevails among journalists, and for that matter among supporters of the peace process. But that s only our opinion of course.