The Editor of the Jerusalem Report is Stupid and Should Be Replaced

Here are some quotes from an article in the 27 January 2020 Jerusalem Report. The article is called "Israel's Central Park", by Ruth Wasserman Lande. It is about Tel Megiddo National Park.

Among the archaeological sites found in Megiddo are an ancient Roman temple dating back to the third century BCE... Remnants of Christian religious buildings from this period are not common in Israel...

There were no Romans in Eretz Yisrael in the third century BCE. There were no Christians in Eretz Yisrael in the third century BCE. The Roman Republic didn't expand into the Eastern Mediterranean until the first century BCE. Christianity got stated in the first century CE. Ms. Lande clearly meant "CE". The editor should have caught that.

The modern battle of Megiddo, which took place during the latter half of 1915,...

The modern battle of Megiddo took place between 19 September and 25 September 1918.

Today's Megiddo Regional Council comprises 13 communities - nine kibbutzim, one farming community and three cooperative settlements (moshavim), constituting a home for some 12,500 people. It stretches over a territory of some 2,000 square feet...

2,000 square feet is a typical home size in the US. According to Hebrew Wikipedia, the area governed by the Megiddo Regional Council is 170,000 dunam, which is almost 2 billion square feet.

This surprising piece of greenery offers a beautiful walking path along the Shofet River...

There are no rivers in Eretz Yisrael. Even the Jordan has been reduced to a creek. If you don't call it "Nahal Shofet" or "Wadi Shofet" in order to pander to monolingual readers, at least call it a "stream", not a "river". Ditto for Nahal Taninim, which, two paragraphs later, is called "Alligator River".

The next article I flagged was "A 'daf a day" by Linda Gradstein. That article includes the following gem:

Daf Yomi began in Lublin, Poland more than 200 years ago.

Sorry. Daf Yomi was started in 1923 by Rabbi Meir Shapiro.

All these blunders were things I flagged at breakfast without raising a sweat and without even having to consult Google. (I only used Google later to discover or confirm the truth.) The editor, and even the authors, should be able to do better at fact checking than a casual reader.

At this point I started thinking seriously about cancelling my subscription. Then I got to Shlomo Maital's weekly column, "Marketplace". His column is the only reason that (in the meantime) I'm not cancelling my subscription. This time it's about optimism. He starts with all the depressing things in store for 2020 (and this was even before the world outside China learned about the corona virus) and then cites Dr. Martin Seligman's pioneering research on learned helplessness as a warning not to give up.

As long as I'm on the subject of learned helplessness, it occurs to me that that was the collective malady of the Jews in the diaspora before the rise of Zionism.

Postscript on the following day

 The article following Shlomo Maital's column is "Oded Eliashiv: Investing in the future of real estate", by Linda Saxe. It actually is an advertisement for Mr. Eliashiv's property technology company, not a news article, but it is not labeled as an advertisement. If they keep doing stealth advertisements like this, I may cancel my subscription despite being a Shlomo Meital fan. Anyway, the article includes this doozie:

As a friend of the family who perished in the 9/11 WTC, the SkySaver product intrigued me...

I've heard of ghostwriting but this is ridiculous!