Want to understand how pervasive media bias works? Read on.
Check out this awful headline from @AP. A gun was found on the scene, there are bullet casings and bullet holes on nearby walls.
This isn't simply an allegation. This was clearly was a gunman.
Check out this awful headline from @AP. A gun was found on the scene, there are bullet casings and bullet holes on nearby walls.
This isn't simply an allegation. This was clearly was a gunman.
It would be bad enough if the Associated Press alone published this headline. But because @AP is a wire service, many other leading news outlets have republished this content, often verbatim.
Here's the article on the @WashingtonPost, for example.
Here's the article on the @WashingtonPost, for example.
And here's the same article, and same headline, on @YahooNews.
The article was republished in plenty more well-known media outlets. Here it is on the @ABC website.
Moving forward, the content of the article is deeply problematic. This is how an article about an attempted shooting attack begins: by focusing on the *response* of the security forces to being attacked.
Notice the pathetic phrase, "Israeli police said".
Look at this video of the attack. Time and again, Palestinian violence is described in terms of being claimed by Israelis.
It's not a claim. It's real. Journalism should document the facts, as facts.
Look at this video of the attack. Time and again, Palestinian violence is described in terms of being claimed by Israelis.
It's not a claim. It's real. Journalism should document the facts, as facts.
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Further down comes this standard background paragraph.
This is not an accusation. The attacks were not merely "alleged."
Surely a news organization such @AP has the resources to confirm stabbings, shootings and car rammings in recent years did in fact occur. Many, many times.
This is not an accusation. The attacks were not merely "alleged."
Surely a news organization such @AP has the resources to confirm stabbings, shootings and car rammings in recent years did in fact occur. Many, many times.
First and foremost, the journalist's task is to establish the truth. That's why this kind of wishy-washy "he said, she said" reporting is a stain on journalism.
In replacing facts with claims, the objective truth is buried.
In replacing facts with claims, the objective truth is buried.
The quote above is also a good example of misleading readers through selectivity.
Yes, many lone attackers have struck civilians in the West Bank... but attacks have NOT been limited to the West Bank. Many Israeli civilians have been killed inside the pre-1967 lines.
Yes, many lone attackers have struck civilians in the West Bank... but attacks have NOT been limited to the West Bank. Many Israeli civilians have been killed inside the pre-1967 lines.
It's not just Associated Press, either. Look here at this headline by @Reuters.
Look at the final paragraph of that article.
So, there were no terrorist attacks on Israelis in Jerusalem's Old City before 2014, @Reuters?!
So, there were no terrorist attacks on Israelis in Jerusalem's Old City before 2014, @Reuters?!
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