Aussie papers accused of anti-Israel bias

Two Fairfax newspapers, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, have been accused of anti-Israeli bias, as has their Middle East correspondent, Ed O'Loughlin. Writing in the Australian Jewish News, Labor MP Michael Danby claims the "highly influential" papers' "systematic anti-Israel bias has a real effect on public opinion in Australia." He is particularly critical of The Age's editor-in-chief, Andrew Jaspan, accusing the former Observer editor of a "bitter and twisted extremism, borrowed from UK paper The Guardian." Bitter and twisted, eh? (Via The Australian)