Journalists’ feedback
“Tom Gross performs a unique and brave and brilliant service in a
world of lies and spite.”
| -- | Julie Burchill |
| Award-winning British journalist; former columnist for The Guardian (London) |
“Both as a commentator and news purveyor Tom Gross has been tireless and instructive in offering an invaluable perspective on events from the Middle East, providing insights often not available from conventional sources. I find his work a helpful counterweight to some of the news coming out of this region, particularly in terms of filling in some of the blanks in other reporting.”
| -- | Jack Schwartz |
| An Assistant Editor at The New York Times |
“Tom Gross employs extraordinary skill in combining an expertise in international relations and Middle Eastern politics with a reporter’s shrewd eye for detail and an intellectual’s capacity for analysis. The Journal has been lucky to have him as a contributor.”
| -- | Erich Eichman |
| Books Editor, The Wall Street Journal |
“As for so much else unreported in the British media, I am indebted to Tom Gross’s indispensable website on the Middle East – www.tomgrossmedia.com – for my information.”
| -- | Frank Johnson |
| In his Daily Telegraph column, Sept. 16, 2006 |
“Tom Gross’s materials are very interesting and extremely useful for my work.”
| -- | Ben-Dror Yemini |
| Op-Ed editor, Ma’ariv (Israel’s second highest circulation newspaper) |
“Tom Gross has played an important role in helping me reformulate my ideas. His pieces on anti-Israel attitudes in the media have been a great boon.”
| -- | Michael Gove |
| Senior Columnist, The Times of London, and a member of the British parliament |
“Tom Gross, as always, has more.”
| -- | David Frum |
| Former American presidential speechwriter, writing on National Review online |
“Tom Gross’s Middle East Dispatches are admirable.”
| -- | Charles Moore |
| Former editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, writing in his column in the Spectator, Jan. 14, 2006 |
“One of the many lessons which people might take from this [Mohammed cartoon] episode is that if they want the uncensored truth about a matter of genuine controversy they are better off scrolling the internet – tomgrossmedia.com and Wikipedia – than buying any British newspaper.”
| -- | Dominic Lawson |
| Former editor-in-chief of the Sunday Telegraph, writing in his column in the (London) Independent, Feb. 7, 2006 |
“Tom Gross’s writings on the Middle East are an important source of information for us at CNN to put this very important, volatile and emotional story into perspective.”
| -- | Gary Baumgarten |
| Senior correspondent, CNN radio (the largest radio news network in the U.S. with over 1600 domestic and 300 international affiliates) |
“Tom Gross deserves an award for the steady flow of insights about the Middle East and the media he provides.”
| -- | Claudia Rosett |
| Writer for The New York Sun and The Wall Street Journal, and winner of the “Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism” for her groundbreaking work on the U.N. Oil for Food scandal |
“Tom Gross is exceptionally well-informed, with a unique understanding of the way the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being covered by the international media.”
| -- | David Horovitz |
| Editor-in-chief, The Jerusalem Post |
“Tom Gross’s mideast dispatches are not only incisive and highly readable, but they are of great importance. They have helped to influence the climate of opinion not only in the U.S., but in Europe.”
| -- | Daniel Schwammenthal |
| Editorial writer, The Wall Street Journal Europe |
“Tom Gross’s work is taken seriously at the highest levels in media and government.”
| -- | Paul Lewis |
| A managing editor of the Economist Intelligence Unit of The Economist magazine |
“I found Tom Gross’s studies and analysis very important.”
| -- | Liu Ling |
| Former Jerusalem correspondent, China State Radio |
“In a world where reporting is so largely in the hands of the ignorant or the biased, Tom Gross stands for telling the truth with courage and integrity.”
| -- | David Pryce-Jones |
| Senior Editor of the National Review and author among other works of “The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs” |
“Tom Gross makes some good points.”
| -- | Alan Rusbridger |
| Editor-in-chief, The Guardian |
“Tomgrossmedia.com is a superb website and should be required reading for all those who want to understand how the media misreports on the Middle East, and influences policy.”
| -- | Robin Shepherd |
| Comment writer for The Washington Post; former Bratislava bureau chief for Reuters; former Moscow bureau chief for The Times of London |
“Tom Gross’s news digests are very helpful. He always manages to find valuable stuff the rest of the media doesn’t report.”
| -- | Jonathan Kay |
| Managing Editor, Comment, National Post (Canada’s biggest newspaper) |
“Tom Gross is a very important source of news about the Middle East.”
| -- | Abby Wisse |
| Member of The New York Post editorial board |
“Tom Gross is a one-man army when it comes to exposing the hypocrisies and prejudices of the mainstream press for his media-centric weblist.”
| -- | Ron Rosenbaum |
| Columnist for The New York Observer, from the introduction to his book “Those who forget the past” (Random House, 2004) |
“Tom Gross’s dispatches are truly excellent; they are crammed with invaluable material.”
| -- | Professor Efraim Karsh |
| London and Harvard universities |
“Tom Gross is an invaluable source of information, analysis and insight on the Middle East and its coverage. His work makes the work of other practitioners in the field both easier and harder: easier for those who strive for accuracy and truth in telling the Middle East story; harder for those who strive to conceal the truth from their audience in the service of their political agendas.”
| -- | Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi |
| Former lecturer in Israel Studies, Oxford University, and a regular contributor to American, Italian and other publications |
“Tom Gross is one of the leading experts in the field.”
| -- | Bret Stephens |
| Editorial writer, The Wall Street Journal; former Editor-in-chief, The Jerusalem Post |
“Tom Gross has made a significant impact on the international understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
| -- | Peter Hitchens |
| Senior Columnist, The Mail on Sunday, London |
“Tom Gross is journalism’s antidote to those who willfully distort the truth.”
| -- | Michael Laurence |
| Author, editor and director, formerly with CBS and NBC |
“I and other producers and correspondents from leading international news agencies have often sought the advice of Tom Gross on Middle Eastern affairs.”
| -- | Guy Lynn |
| Former Senior Producer, Jerusalem Bureau, ABC TV Australia Former producer, Reuters TV |
“Tom Gross’s dispatches offer fascinating albeit often frightening insights.”
| -- | Joanna Radyner |
| Correspondent, Austrian Radio and TV |