A study by a Toronto-based consulting and research company has revealed that
over the past fifty years mainstream reporting about Israel has been
distorted to portray the Jewish state in positive terms while ignoring
the plight of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation. The media study,
based on a computer analysis of 50 years of data, found that major U.S.
newspapers have provided consistently skewed, pro-Israel reporting on
Israel-Palestine. The slanting in news coverage included subtle
manipulations like using word associations favorable to Israel and
derogatory to Palestinians as well as persistent publication of stories
praising Israel while also avoiding reporting anything supportive of the
dispossessed Arab point of view.
The researchers from 416Labs were able to evaluate headlines and articles derived from five major U.S. newspapers: the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal during
the time period 1967 to 2017. June 1967 was selected as the starting
point to include coverage of the Six Day War and its aftermath, when
Israel attacked Jordan, Egypt and Syria to begin its military occupation
of Palestinian territory on the West Bank and Gaza.
No
one should be surprised by media bias in favor of Israel given the
dominance of Jewish owners and editors in the major media, but the study
just might have gone one step farther and noted, as did Congressman
Paul Findley in his book They Dare to Speak Out
back in 1985, that much of the bias stems from the overseas
correspondents covering the Middle East for the U.S. and European media
also being overwhelmingly Jewish. And a review of the Israel-philia
might have gone back even further in time to the foundation of the state
in 1948 to find similar favorable coverage..........http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-story/
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