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To see this story with its related links on the MediaGuardian.co.uk site, go to http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk Worsthorne criticises Israeli bias of Telegraph owner's wife Ciar Byrne Thursday October 17 2002 The Guardian A former editor the Sunday Telegraph today launched a scathing attack on the wife of the newspapers' owner, Conrad Black, branding her articles in the Daily Telegraph as "logic-chopping apologies for Israel". Sir Peregrine Worsthorne said both papers and the Spectator magazine, which is also owned by the Canadian Lord Black, were "obsessive" in their pro-American and pro-Israeli editorial stance. Sir Peregrine describes articles written for the Telegraph by Lord Black's wife, Barbara Amiel, as "enragingly narrow-minded and logic-choppingly unpersuasive apologies for Israel". In an article in today's New Statesman, he warned that Lord Black's stance on America threatened the very existence of his newspapers. "Nobody on the inside seems to be telling Black that his obsessive and out-of date, pro-American certitudes are rendering the papers' entire political coverage suspect - as if written in another country and in a foreign language - that the titles are once again in danger of self-destruction." Sir Peregrine, 79, was one of the most distinguished and outspoken editors of recent times - he worked at the Daily Telegraph between 1953 and 1961 and had a 28 year stint at the Sunday Telegraph between 1961 and 1989, spending five years as deputy editor and three as editor. Earlier this year Amiel accused war reporters of misreporting events in Israel. She said correspondents had "abandoned balanced criticism" and "ignored the relatively heavy Israeli casualties", instead printing Palestinian propaganda about "massacres". She singled out for criticism Janine di Giovanni of the Times, Sam Kiley of the London Evening Standard and Orla Guerin of the BBC. Amiel also found herself at the centre of a row over comments made about Israel last year, when she referred in her Telegraph column to remarks made by the French ambassador, Daniel Bernard, at a private function hosted by her husband. She claimed "the ambassador of a major EU country" told her that the international security crisis had been triggered by "that shitty little country Israel". The press secretary of the French embassy later defended Mr Bernard by saying he could not remember whether he had used the phrase, adding that he had not expected comments made at a private party to be repeated. He denied Mr Bernard was anti-Semitic or anti-Israel. In a review of Sir Max Hasting's new book about his stint as editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Peregrine said: "I fear [Sir Max Hastings' account] is also a story that must raise very serious questions over the continuing propriety of Black's obsessive pro-American partisanship, exercised not only over the two Telegraphs, but also over the Spectator, in the rather changed foreign circumstances of today," said Sir Peregrine. "For with the cold war over and the new so-called war against terrorism raging, it is by no means so certain that it is anything other than a minor scandal to have these three titles so closely tied to American, and now also to Israeli, coat-tails," he said. It emerged today that the head of the Israeli government press office has been heavily criticised by international news organisations after accusing them of gross bias in favour of Palestinians. Sir Peregrine also claimed in his New Statesman review of Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers, that Sir Max was unsuitable to edit the Daily Telegraph because his politics did not tally with those of the paper. However, Sir Peregrine added that Sir Max's book answered the question of how he managed to survive in the editor's chair for so long. Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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