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Selective reporting slants news coverage of key Mideast issues
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August 26, 2004
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Selective reporting slants news coverage of key Mideast issues
BBC Radio's curious choice of 'experts' on Mideast media coverage and terminology
Associated Press editorializes an Arafat speech as per PA instructions; also, Tom Friedman likens democratic Israelis with Shiite thugs
In reporting on Palestinian child terror, USA Today omits essential context and soft-pedals radical Islamist ideology.
After three child terrorists are caught, AP fails to explain the cultural background that encouraged their act.
Media exposes on PA corruption – long called for by HonestReporting – engender a healthy skepticism among PA financiers.
While PA leaders condemn the Palestinian bombing of an American convoy, an official PA newspaper blames Israel for the act.
AP and Reuters select news items that question Israeli policy — but avoid items that justify it.
The LA Times finds two different worldviews from Palestinian and Israeli kids, but posts a title that suggests otherwise.
Israel's cabinet accepts the road map, but is determined to avoid Oslo
Israel's plan to stop Palestinian violence is sensationalized by Reuters as "splitting Christ's birthplace"
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer rehashes one-sided slur from a virulently pro-Palestinian movement.
A double-suicide bombing sends the PA into damage control, with plenty of media support.
Israel has long complained that the UN allows Palestinian incitement and extremism to go unchecked in the refugee camps.
Palestinian children are back on the front lines, throwing rocks and bombs. Amnesty International asks: Who's to blame?
A Newsweek Report is filled with selective omissions and distortion of facts.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist deflects Arafat
One Israel basher convinces papers across America to print his misrepresentation of facts and defense of murder.
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