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Adam Johnson Profile picture
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Dec 18 • 11 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I (and my pseudonymous co-author) did an analysis of Sunday Morning news shows and their coverage of Gaza. We found their coverage was defined by double standards, casual dehumanization of Palestinians, and softball questions to US and Israeli officials

thenation.com/article/societ…
Key findings 🧵
- Since Oct 7 2023 NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week & CNN’s State of the Union have not featured a single Palestinian guest

- Israeli officials have appeared on the Sunday shows 20 times

- US officials appeared 59 times & were consistently portrayed as a humanitarian force
The discrepancy between the kind of language used on the Sunday shows to describe violence leveled against Israelis versus violence leveled against Palestinians was also on stark display—consistent with the asymmetry of emotive words in print and cable news media. Image
- “Israeli hostages” were mentioned 835 times, while “Palestinian prisoners” were mentioned 52 times, and every time it was only in the context of a prisoner exchange pursuant to a release of the Israeli hostages.
- The term “right to defend itself” was used 149 times, all in reference to Israel. Palestine or Palestinians were never said by any anchors, reporters, or guests to possess any such right.
- Despite credible reports of mass rape of Palestinian captives and numerous documented cases of the Israeli military using Palestinians as human shields, reports of Israel doing so were not mentioned once on any of the Sunday shows (1/2)
Claims of mass rapes targeting Israelis, however, were mentioned 15 different times, and the term “human shields” was used to describe alleged actions by Palestinians 37 different times. (2/2)
- Antisemitism was mentioned 65 times on the Sunday shows during our survey period, while “Islamophobia” or anti-Muslim/anti-Palestinian racism was only mentioned four times.
- The overall tone of the coverage was uncritical of US involvement in the “Hamas-Israel war,” remaining safely within the limited confines of “Is the US doing enough to protect civilians?” hand-wringing.
- this is consistent with the previous installment in our series. Virtually all the discussion of Gaza framed the US as a humanitarian force working for a ceasefire and trying to mitigate civilian harm thenation.com/article/societ…

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Oct 29
Important to note how framing this as exclusively a “Muslim” or “Arab” issue (as democrats, NYT, MSNBC, etc have been doing for months) is a subtle way of reinforcing the premise this is a sectarian or tribal grievance rather than people—across many demos— angry about genocide
It’s playing in the AIPAC/ADL sandbox which loves to frame the issue as sectarian or ethnic rather than colonial/anti colonial or genocide/anti genocide. With the not so subtle implication that *those people* are hot headed and not thinking straight. It strips it of moral content
Obviously Arab/Muslims are more likely to register disagreement RE: Gaza for many reasons, but young voters very much do too. As do black voters. But keeping the debate in the sectarian sandbox avoids discussing the *substance of what voters are angry about with respect to Gaza*
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Oct 14
In The Nation, with (anonymous) researcher and writer Othman Ali, I examine double standards in media humanization, comparing CNN and MSNBC coverage of Palestinian vs Israeli and Palestinian vs Ukrainian victims. Here are our main findings🧵 thenation.com/article/societ…
First off: why MSNBC and CNN? Given it's a Dem president arming and funding the ongoing genocide, this study is the first installment of a multipart series detailing how Center-Left media helps sell the wholesale destruction of Gaza to liberals and centrists over the past year.
The general idea is liberal support in the US––or at least indifference––is essential in maintaining the arms flow and military support necessary to Israel's destruction of Gaza. Thus Center-Left media's role in obscuring the horrors is dispositive and or central importance.
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Sep 4
ok so NYT is just gonna publish this conspiratorial claim without an ounce of skepticism or providing a single shred of evidence. cool. Image
if US intelligence has evidence of Iranian agents posing as students and organizing protests can they... name them? This is a very specific and explosive claim would be nice for anyone, anywhere, to provide any evidence of this
I always knew the extremely low "foreign influence" standard of RT or Press TV simply reporting on things in a tabloid manner, in English, would be used to undermine any and all leftwing protests moving forward but this is a new and extreme claim. proof should be forthcoming, no?
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Aug 15
Netanyahu’s been clear for months he will not accept a lasting ceasefire deal. He’s said so dozens of times. Yet Biden keeps faking like this is a thing that could happen without a credible threat of US cutting off aid—which Biden refuses to do. The Trump angle is a non sequitur
More silly WH spin from Ravid, this is his whole beat
Netanyahu won’t accept a lasting ceasefire deal because Biden refuses to use any meaningful leverage (an arms embargo or credible threat thereof) to compel him to do so. Everything short of this is theater. Harris, as far as can be gleaned, has the same policy.
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Aug 1
Everything NYT lists here that supposedly makes Harris “inching” closer to the Left on Gaza is wholly superficial and already Biden WH policy, right down to the vacuous Empathy-Speak and the warping of “ceasefire” to mean brief pause followed by continuing the destruction of Gaza
If switching to a candidate with (at least for now) the exact same Gaza policy + some bleeding heart rhetoric is enough to win over skeptical lefties on the issue of genocide then this is a dark day for whatever the US Left is supposed to be
The myth that Harris “called for a ceasefire” ahead of Biden won’t go away. She began doing so in line with WH’s co-option of the term in the lead up to the Michigan primary and immediately after to stem the uncommitted movement.
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Jul 15
NYT says they’d have withheld anti Trump editorial Sunday if they could have. If the shooter wrote a manifesto citing Paul Krugman and Gail Collins maybe this would be a polite gesture but he was some rw crank, why is liberal media accepting premise they are somehow responsible?
Begging people to get a grip.
There are plenty of psycho killers who cite the NYT to justify their actions, but they are sending weapons to Israel and Saudi Arabia not one off losers shooting at presidential candidates.
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