Conflicted bloggers

On the Media has an interesting interview with J.J. Goldberg, editor of The Forward, in which he examines the careful balance of U.S. media coverage of the Israeli Hezbollah conflict. It's such a careful balance (a missile falls in Lebanon, a missile falls in Israel) that it doesn't come close to telling the reality of what's going on in Lebanon. He also discusses why, although bloggers on the Right can't get enough of Israeli Defense Forces bombing southern Lebanon, the Left has been mostly pretty quiet (certainly even-tempered). Goldberg explained that the Left is conflicted, feeling that the Israeli response to the border incursion was disproportionate, but that the initial, overall provocation on Hezbollah's side (wanting to destroy Israel) is disproportionate as well. Maybe so.