Media Coverage
Israel and Palestine
Israel and Palestine
Are the American media reporting events in Israel and Palestine, or is there something similar to the "liberal media bias"? Is the coverage "fair and balanced"? How can a reader tell if he is getting:
- ad-hoc reporting,
- news (with a semblance of balance),
- analysis (hopefully fair),
- opinion, or
- propaganda (a systematic mis-representation)?
One idea to sort out the truth: Ask
- what is the content (is the headline direct, guarded, innocuous? Is one point of view sandwiche
Friday, September 01, 2006
one of the anchors went as far as saying they [dead Lebanese children] were planted there by Hezbollah to win support in this war
Democracy Now! | Fox News Producer Resigns Over Middle East Coverage: "Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Two weeks ago, two producers working for Fox News in Amman, Jordan resigned in protest of the network's coverage. In their resignation letter, Serene Sabbagh and Jomana Karadsheh wrote "We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that." We go to Amman to speak with producer Serene Sabbagh. [includes rush transcript]
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But from the onset of the war in Lebanon, I was devastated at the way that Fox was handling the coverage from Lebanon in the U.S., and I felt there was bias, the slant, the racist remarks, the use of the word “we” meaning Israel, and it was just unbearable up until basically the massacre at Qana. And as a mother of three, watching the images, the raw images of children being pulled out of the rubble, and then I switched to Fox News to hear some of their anchors claiming that these little kids that were killed, these innocent victims that were killed, were human shields used by Hezbollah. And one of the anchors went as far as saying they were planted there by Hezbollah to win support in this war. And it was unbelievable. For me, that was the breaking point, and this is when I decided, me and my colleague Jomana, to hand in our resignation. ...
Democracy Now! | Fox News Producer Resigns Over Middle East Coverage: "Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Two weeks ago, two producers working for Fox News in Amman, Jordan resigned in protest of the network's coverage. In their resignation letter, Serene Sabbagh and Jomana Karadsheh wrote "We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that." We go to Amman to speak with producer Serene Sabbagh. [includes rush transcript]
...
But from the onset of the war in Lebanon, I was devastated at the way that Fox was handling the coverage from Lebanon in the U.S., and I felt there was bias, the slant, the racist remarks, the use of the word “we” meaning Israel, and it was just unbearable up until basically the massacre at Qana. And as a mother of three, watching the images, the raw images of children being pulled out of the rubble, and then I switched to Fox News to hear some of their anchors claiming that these little kids that were killed, these innocent victims that were killed, were human shields used by Hezbollah. And one of the anchors went as far as saying they were planted there by Hezbollah to win support in this war. And it was unbelievable. For me, that was the breaking point, and this is when I decided, me and my colleague Jomana, to hand in our resignation. ...
