Common Dreams - An
analysis published Tuesday shows that three of the most influential newspapers in the United States—The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times—have
reliably shown a bias against Palestinians in their coverage of
Israel's assault on Gaza and its reverberating consequences. Writer Adam Johnson and researcher Othman Ali examined the three
outlets' coverage of Israel-Gaza between October 7—the day of the deadly
Hamas-led attack on southern Israel—and November 24, which marked the
start of a negotiated pause that
ended just a week later. The Israeli bombardment has continued relentlessly since.
The pair's analysis, published in The Intercept, found that across more than 1,000 articles, the three newspapers showed a "consistent bias" against Palestinians. Specifically, the outlets "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."As the Gaza death toll surged during the first month and a half of Israel's assault, the three newspapers' mentions of Palestinians in their coverage declined, Johnson and Ali found.
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