2011:
"...academic study published in the Journal of Applied Business Research has found that Reuters coverage of the Middle East conflict is systematically tainted by propaganda and influences readers to side with the Palestinians and Arab states against Israel.
"...academic study published in the Journal of Applied Business Research has found that Reuters coverage of the Middle East conflict is systematically tainted by propaganda and influences readers to side with the Palestinians and Arab states against Israel.
Researcher Henry Silverman of Roosevelt University analyzed a sample of 50 news-oriented articles published on the Reuters.com websites 4 the use of classic propaganda techniques, logical fallacies and violations of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism,
a manual of guiding ethical principles for the company’s journalists. Across the articles, over 1,100 occurrences of propaganda, fallacies and handbook violations in 41 categories were identified and classified.
In the 2nd part of the study...33 university students were surveyed, b4 &after reading the articles, to assess their attitudes & motivation to support one or the other belligerent parties...i.e., the Palestinians/Arabs or the Israelis...on average, subject sentiment shifted
significantly following the readings in favor of the Arabs...this shift was associated with particular propaganda techniques & logical fallacies...in the stories."
