All Entries Tagged With: "Media Bias"
The Washington Post Acts Just Like Carter
Once again, the Washington Post gives legitimacy to a mass-murdering terrorist, and it seems that they are doing it because of Jimmy Carter. Some lowlights:
Last week’s attack on the Nahal Oz fuel depot should not surprise critics in the West. Palestinians are fighting a total war waged on us by a nation that mobilizes against [...]
Today’s AFP Media Bias: “Hardline Jews”
The phrase “hardline Jews” appears at least twice in recent AFP reports.
One is in a discussion of Peace Now:
Loathed or loved by many Israelis, Peace Now this week marks 30 years as a movement which has deeply influenced public opinion but not achieved its vision of peace with the Palestinians.
…The peace movement was a counterforce [...]
Award For Most Inventive Use of the Word “Stone”
Goes to our friends at the AP:
A Palestinian demonstrator uses a sling-shot to hurl a stone at Israeli border police, not seen, during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, Friday, April 11, 2008. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a [...]
Yes, The Kid Was Killed by a Palestinian Arab Mortar
Yesterday I posted a large number of articles about a child killed in Gaza and compared how these “news” sources reported Palestinian Arab claims that the child was killed by an Israeli tank shell. Some of them took the Palestinian claims at face value, and the ones that noted Israel’s denials buried that information much [...]
Drop the Dead Donkey
A dead donkey is seen in front of Israeli police vehicles on a road near the West Bank village of Salem near Nablus April 7, 2008. An Israeli bus carrying settlers ran over and killed a Palestinian shepherd near the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday, local Palestinian residents said. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST [...]
Comparative Reporting
A child was killed in Gaza yesterday. How does the media report it?
Comparing the spin that the stories get, and the relative placement of various details, is a very valuable way to see how each media outlet is biased.
AP:
Palestinian Abdullah Buhar, 8-years-old, …was killed Sunday by shrapnel during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants [...]
Funding Anti-Israel Bias
Yesterday, the Jerusalem Post reported about Palestinian Media Watch’s allegation that the palestinian Ma’an News Agency – funded in part by the Netherlands and Denmark – promotes hatred of Israel.
Marcus and Crook monitored the Ma’an news agency’s Arabic and English news coverage of the last few terrorist attacks in Israel and found that it repeatedly [...]
More Gallup Dishonesty
The authors of “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think” continue to produce articles with bits and pieces of their worldwide poll of Muslims with furious spinning to make Muslims look as much like Westerners as possible. This is not surprising – co-author John Esposito has written a number of apologetic books [...]
Euphemistic Headline of the Day
..has to be this one from the New York Times:
In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace
Gives new meaning to the phrase “dying from complications.”
Update: The article itself is decent in its reporting of Hamas incitement, but completely misses the mark when it talks about Fatah:
Such incitement against Israel and Jews was supposed to be [...]
AFP Bias of the Day
AFP “reports:”
The World Health Organization lashed out at Israel on Tuesday for denying or delaying travel permits for critically ill Gaza Strip residents, saying the right to health appeared to be optional for Palestinians.Ambrogio Manenti, who heads the WHO’s West Bank and Gaza office, said case studies of patients who died while waiting for permits [...]
