Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows
Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post skewed coverage toward Israeli narratives, according to a quantitative analysis.
The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza showed a consistent bias against Palestinians, according to an Intercept analysis of major media coverage.
The print media outlets, which play an influential role in shaping U.S. views of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, paid little attention to the unprecedented impact of Israel’s siege and bombing campaign on both children and journalists in the Gaza Strip.
Major U.S. newspapers disproportionately emphasized Israeli deaths in the conflict; used emotive language to describe the killings of Israelis, but not Palestinians; and offered lopsided coverage of antisemitic acts in the U.S., while largely ignoring anti-Muslim racism in the wake of October 7. Pro-Palestinian activists have accused major publications of pro-Israel bias, with the New York Times seeing protests Opens in a new tabat its headquarters in Manhattan for its coverage of Gaza –– an accusation supported by our analysis.
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The open-source analysis focuses on the first six weeks of the conflict, from the October 7 Hamas-led attacks that killed 1,139 Israelis and foreign workers to November 24, the beginning of the weeklong “humanitarian truce” agreed to by both parties to facilitate hostage exchanges. During this period, 14,800 Palestinians, including more than 6,000 children, were killed by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Today, the Palestinian death toll is over 22,000.
This paragraph mentions Palestinian deaths three times but Israeli deaths once. Therefore the Intercept is biased, according to the Intercept.
I suggest you read the articles, they have graphs and stuff.
I did read the article. I think the methods are questionable. Making a graph doesn't mean the methods are sound.
For example:
For every two Palestinian deaths, Palestinians are mentioned once. For every Israeli death, Israelis are mentioned eight times — or a rate 16 times more per death that of Palestinians.
In other words "There have been 20000 Palestinian deaths and 1000 Israeli deaths" is considered biased, and that sentence should have used the word "Palestinian" twenty times because there were twenty times as many deaths.
I'm unsure what your point is.
This is only in the first six weeks, current bias against Palestinians is even higher.
The Intercept doesn't report on the deaths. It's not a classic "news" site in the way these papers are. They mainly break scandals and leaks such as CNN and the IDF Censor .
The Intercept is measuring "bias" by comparing the ratio of Palestinians/Israeli deaths to the ratio of using the words "Palestinian" and "Israeli" in the media.
Which means according to the Intercept, if CNN writes "There have been 20000 Palestinian deaths and 1000 Israeli deaths" then this is another example of bias, because CNN only used "Palestinian" once in that sentence. Which is nonsense.