October 26 2012
Letter to the Editor:
I just read your article about Roger Cohen’s blunders regarding Iran. He seems to belong to those journalists who live by the proverb: whose bread I eat his song I sing.
I know Cohen from his days as an American Jewish correspondent abroad lauding the new Germany.
When I wrote to him in October 1999 in response to his gushing reports from Berlin to tell him about my personal experiences in the former Nazi state and those of many other Jews who lived there, he sent me an inappropriately cranky e-mail.
Cohen clearly does not report factually and has his personal opportunistic interests and agenda at heart rather than the pursuit of journalistic ethics and truth in reporting.
Aliana Brodmann