Analysis: US Media Coverage Of Gaza Invasion Largely Biased Towards Israel

[babylonsister]

'NYT,' Most Others in U.S. Media, Silent as Israel Invades

By Greg Mitchell

Published: January 04, 2009 12:20 AM ET


NEW YORK (Commentary) Israel launched its much-anticipated invasion of Gaza on Saturday. For over a week, U.S. media had provided largely one-sided coverage of the conflict, with little editorializing or commentary arguing against broader Israeli actions.

Most notably, after more than eight days of Israeli bombing and Hamas rocket launching in Gaza, The New York Times had produced exactly one editorial, not a single commentary by any of its columnists, and only two op-eds (one already published elsewhere). The editorial, several days ago, did argue against the wisdom of a ground invasion - - but even though that invasion had become ever more likely all week the paper did not return to this subject.

Amazingly, the paper has kept that silence going in Sunday's paper, with no editorial or columnist comment on the Israeli invasion.

The invasion, to no one's surprise, did begin on Saturday -- so any further criticism will now come too late. As in the past, U.S. media coverage and commentary has overwhelmingly backed the Israeli actions (as it did in the Lebanon war in 2006, which turned into a fiasco).

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[K Gardner]

1. Outrageous: Banner News Headline Screams "ONE Israeli Soldier Dead", all morning, but

no mention of the hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza. Surreal.

[babylonsister]

3. I saw that 'breaking news' this a.m. on

m$nbc and thought how ludicrous it was. :puke:

[Chulanowa]

4. Some animals are more equal than others

One is regarded as a cherished family pet. Hundreds are regarded as livestock.

[Tesha]

2. I'm shocked, shocked I say!

Actually, Mr. Tesha and I were commenting on how much less
biased the Boston Globe's coverage was compared to the NYTimes.
This was especially surprising based on the fact that they are owned
by the same parent corporation. We were comparing newspapers
from identical days, BTW and looking at photo placement and
sizing as well as the text.

Tesha

[StudsT]

5. i am glad this is being documented even though this is pretty obvious to those paying attention

thanks for sharing :toast:

StudsT

[ShadesOfGrey]

6. Yep! I'll second that.. K&R

[eridani]

7. In other news, water is wet

--and babies, kittens and puppies are cute. That is all.

[malaise]

8. Only some lives matter

Have any of those papers discussed the deaths of Iraqis yet?
Why is anyone surprised?

[Sobiut]

9. People are surprised?

This should be obvious.

[tpsbmam]

10. No shit -- I was awake at about 3 a.m. a couple of nights ago and turned on CNN-I

Not sure who the female anchor was (Rosemary Church????). It didn't help my ability to go back to sleep when I started swearing at the TV and my BP went up a few points when this shill stated that Israel had killed (at that point) about 400 people, mainly "militants" and Hamas had killed 9 civilians. (Can't remember the civilians number but you get he gist.) I was absolutely horrified -- I did email CNN the next morning when I remembered the quote better because I was still PISSED!