Very good column by Bret Stephens today on a media bias conference in Tel Aviv that was itself biased, with no real critics of media coverage invited. One particularly sharp observation, directed toward the European media:
Basically, the European media looks at Israel-Palestine as an occupation story. I know this because more than one senior European journalist has told me so. That’s not necessarily the wrong prism through which to see things, but it’s also not the only prism. You might also, conceivably, play this as a cycle of violence story, as much of the mainstream US media do. Or you might view the conflict as a function of the Arab world’s abiding rejection of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Each captures a different aspect of reality, and each contributes to our overall understanding. But you choose to capture only one aspect, which happens to be the aspect favored by the Palestinians. This is a form of bias.
And in case you missed it, Stephens also had a good article in the Wall Street Journal this week addressing the world’s reaction to Palestinian terrorism: The Fear Factor
