Thomas Friedman and the Red Lines in Journalism on Israel and Palestine

Frida Ghitis: Thomas Friedman was a reporter in Lebanon in 1982 when he reported shellfire was "indiscriminate" She says he was outraged at his editors for not reporting that the shelling was indiscriminate.

She says it's encouraging that journalists at these organizations occasionally rise up as Friedman did in 1982 .

Ghitis says it reveals the lines that reporters may not cross, at the cost of potentially losing jobs.

Said: Somehow it is simultaneously the worst and best newspaper on earth .

On the one hand, it runs crimes against human cognition about the insects living in the Middle East , he says.

Said: This complexity is extremely cold comfort for people who are brutalized by the U.S. and its allies.