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.
This is an excellent and enlightening article. Though I already knew that MSM was highly biased on this conflict it is somewhat startling to see just how biased it really is.
Honestly, CNN isn’t doing so badly being impartial. I just gave someone an embolysm I’m sure by reading that, but for real, they’re not editorializing and they’re showing nothing but human suffering in Gaza as well as official Israeli statements and footage of the music festival attack by Hamas.