Study Finds NY Times Coverage of Israel-Hamas War is Biased Against Israel
“very few articles mention any Israeli suffering that is not directly related to the events of October 7”
I’m sure you are as shocked as I am to learn this.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
NYT coverage of war creates ‘imbalanced’ sympathy for Palestinian side, study finds
The New York Times‘s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has generated “sympathy for the Palestinian people” while at the same time “diminishing Hamas’s responsibility for their situation and the continuation of the war,” according to a recently published study by Yale professor, Edieal Pinker.
With the aim of assessing imbalances in coverage that may influence readers’ views, Pinker carried out a quantitative analysis of 1,561 New York Times articles published between October 7, 2023 and June 7, 2024, that referenced both “Israel” and “Gaza.”
Pinker’s analysis indicated a “dominant narrative” that revolved around the number of Palestinians killed as a result of Israel’s military response to the October 7 Hamas attack rather than the losses on the Israeli side.
“Little mention is made of Israeli casualties post-October 7 or of Palestinian acts of violence post-October 7,” the study added, noting as well that “very few articles mention any Israeli suffering that is not directly related to the events of October 7.”
The study revealed that, in the articles studied, the word “Israel” was mentioned three times more frequently than “Hamas.”
Of the 1,561 articles in the sample, there were only 105 (7%) in which the number of times the word “Hamas” appeared was greater than or equal to the number of times the word “Israel” appeared.
In total, the word “Israel” appeared 27,205 times vs 8,499 for “Hamas” across all articles in the analysis.
Pinker’s study dismisses the argument that the reason “Israel” appears more is because the Jewish State has “more independence than the Palestinians and thus will have more freedom of action.”
If this were to be the case, he argued, there would be less of an imbalance in the ratio of mentions of Hezbollah and Iran. However, the data indicated the imbalance was the same.
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In another startling story water was found to be wet.
beat me to it …. lol
Shouldn’t there have been a memo…?
So much for “the Jooos control the media”.