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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

similar rises

No, the article doesn't even attempt to measure the rises, much less show that they were similar.

humanize the deaths on the Israeli side.

No, the Intercept is again looking for an axe to grind. For example:

The Gaza Health Ministry said Friday that 1,799 people have been killed in the territory, including more than 580 under the age of 18 and 351 women. Hamas’s assault last Saturday killed more than 1,300 people in Israel, including women, children and young music festivalgoers.

Here the Israeli children are uncounted. Is that an example of anti-Israeli bias? No, because despite counting only Palestinian children the media made the mistake of describing their methodology: children are those under 18. Less precise language would be better. Does "children" even appear elsewhere in that article?

“We have wounded, we have elderly, we have children who are in hospitals,” she said.

Clearly those are Israeli children. No? They are Palestinian? Yeah but this was 10/13 so what about all the mentions of Israeli children still in hospitals? None? The same article only mentions Palestinian "children" in hospitals? Ok, well the Intercept will have to report that as a counterpoint. Just kidding, this is the Intercept after all:

The aforementioned front-page New York Times report and a Washington Post column are rare exceptions to the dearth of coverage about Palestinian children.

The Intercept is worse than lazy, they think their readers are too dumb to remember the news.

Just the first six hits from just one Google search:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/world/middleeast/premature-babies-al-shifa-hospital-gaza-evacuation.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-health-ministry-says-no-objection-moving-babies-no-mechanism-do-so-2023-11-14/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/abandoned-babies-found-decomposing-gaza-hospital-evacuated-rcna127533

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/11/14/gaza-hospital-al-shifa-supplies-incubators-israel-hamas-war-nada-bashir-dnt-tsr-vpx.cnn

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/premature-babies-evacuated-from-shifa-hospital-to-southern-gaza-trauma-patients-remain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/03/gaza-premature-babies-dead-nasr/