5 Feet of Fury

Haaretz: ‘The Downfall of a Great Newspaper’

You might remember me writing about Haaretz here, re: their promotion of the “forced Ethiopian birth control” story.

Now, at TheTower:

In a series of interviews conducted with current and former Haaretz employees, some of whom held high-level positions at the paper and most of whom still hold it close to their hearts, a consensus emerged to the effect that the paper is undergoing a process of major change that has led to a dramatic reduction in staff, a precipitous decline in journalistic standards, and a willful radicalization of its politics in pursuit of Internet traffic.