Sunday’s Gaza Guests Linked to Military Industry, Pro-Israel Funding
Sunday show guests skewed strongly toward US politicians with strong financial influence from the military industry and pro-Israel advocates.
For Cable News, a Palestinian Life Is Not the Same as an Israeli Life
Cable news coverage of victims, war crimes and context show a double standard when it comes to US allies versus official US enemies.
Scott Burris on US v. Rahimi
The question is whether the Court’s conservative majority can use its special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future.
Smearing Photojournalists as Hamas Collaborators Gets Them Added to a Hit List
Israeli officials are accusing major news media of coordinating with Hamas, painting Palestinian stringers as terrorist operatives.
NYT Runs Interference for IDF as It Bombs Jabalia Refugee Camp
The New York Times, and other news outlets, have employed a lexicon that diminishes, denies, obscures and justifies Israeli war crimes.
‘Free Speech’ Fans Call for Censoring TikTok as Chinese Plot to Make Israel Look Bad
The Republican-held House could push to ban TikTok completely, on the grounds that it allows too much criticism of Israel.
Conflating Jewish and Pro-Israel Is Wrong and Misleading
US media falsely act as if Jewish opinion is unified in support of Israeli military attacks and in opposition to Palestinian rights.
Media’s In-House Critics to Reporters: Quit Quoting Palestinians About Civilian Deaths
Articles that chided media for being credulous toward Gazan authorities themselves failed to critically examine the claims they relied on.
In Hours of Israel/Gaza Crisis Coverage, a Word You’ll Seldom Hear: ‘Ceasefire’
As casualties in Gaza mount, most TV news outlets have paid scant attention to the growing calls for a ceasefire.
Unconfirmed ‘Beheaded Babies’ Report Helped Justify Israeli Slaughter
The IDF needed to differentiate its mass slaughter from Hamas’s violence—which it could only do by painting Hamas as subhuman.
Israeli Attacks on Journalists Stifle Reporting on Gaza Horrors
The ability of reporters to cover Gaza is jeopardized by the alarming number of newspeople Israel has killed since the crisis began.
The Need for a Less Hypocritical Center at the New York Times
Centrists love to decry “both sides”—yet somehow it’s almost always the left that earns the bulk of their contempt.
In Gaza, ‘We Have to Do the Hard Work of Looking at Context’
“We have to understand…why these things happen. Otherwise, we have no basis to figure out a strategy to stop the violence on all sides.”
NYT Ignores Dissent to Convey Image of Jewish Unanimity
Readers would get the impression that a monolithic Jewish community in the US’s most Jewish city sat in self-imposed collective silence.
Papers That Ignore Causes of Violence Can’t Help Prevent It
At no point do the editorials in leading papers provide readers with the information necessary to comprehend what is happening and why.
Phyllis Bennis on Gaza
This week on CounterSpin: In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly described the daily human rights violations in Gaza, the right of […]
While Israeli Media Examine Government Failure, US Papers Push ‘National Unity’
In the wake of the Hamas attacks, US editorial boards urged Israelis to put aside the concerns they’ve had about democracy.
Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel/Palestine Coverage
It is vital that news readers become acquainted with the tropes that dominate coverage of the Israeli occupation.
Covering ‘Racist State’ Backlash—but Not the Reality That Israel Is a Racist State
Major US news outlets covered the blowup over Jayapal’s statement. But few took the obvious journalistic step of factchecking it.
Arlene Martínez on Corporate Subsidies, Florín Nájera-Uresti on Journalism Preservation
White supremacy and economic policy are completely different stories for the press, but not for the people.
