The Battle Behind the Headlines: Can we fix the media bias against Israel?

[shira]

It's become a common trope these days: A terror attack takes place, but news outlets around the world write, "Palestinian killed by Israeli forces," failing to mention the attack or its victims.

Recently, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, MSNBC and the Los Angeles Times have come under sharp criticism for this and even issued apologies. But by the time the next attack happens, they revert to their old mistakes.

Why does this keep happening?

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/The-Battle-Behind-the-Headlines-Can-we-fix-the-media-bias-against-Israel-427429

[COLGATE4]

1. Why does this keep happening?

Unfortunately, to ask is to answer.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. When the media turns a blind eye to Israeli apartheid and illegal colonists then there is no bias.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. worse than that. There is a tacit coverup of Israel's wrongdoing at all times.

There also is a engrained "Blame the Palestinians" at all times thing going on, too. Regardless of any facts on the ground.

[6chars]

3. Israeli govt doesn't have a good sense of how this works.

they keep expecting objective coverage. there was a good piece on this last year

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/

[shira]

4. #Headline Fail: "Palestinian dies in ramming attack" (Reuters)

Perpetrator made into a victim.

A Palestinian man who rammed his vehicle into Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank is shot dead by a civilian.
Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/video/2015/11/27/palestinian-dies-in-ramming-attack?videoId=366482248#oKTPrUj2HpaDjbCG.99

[shira]

5. #More.Fail: "Palestinian shot dead at Damascus gate in Jerusalem after stabbing Israeli guard"

Palestinian shot dead at Damascus gate in Jerusalem after stabbing Israeli guard
The incident brings to 99 the number of Palestinians killed in a wave of violence since the start of October

Prioritizing the fate of terrorists over their victims.

[shira]

6. #Fail, part 39: "18-year-old American killed in Israel delivering food to soldiers"

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/middleeast/ezra-schwartz-profile/index.html?sr=twCNN112015ezra-schwartz-profile0627PMVODtopLink&linkId=18922499

Sure, maybe he was killed in an accident.

Couldn't have possibly been a terror attack.

[shira]

7. CNN: Joseph’s Tomb “Catches Fire”

http://honestreporting.com/cnn-josephs-tomb-catches-fire/

It must have spontaneously combusted. Palestinians couldn't have had anything to do with it.

[shira]

8. More Fail: "Police shoot Palestinian man in J-lem as military closes off parts of city"

http://mashable.com/2015/10/14/police-shoot-man-in-jerusalem-amid-unrest/#_nh_4_TzNiq0

Why would they shoot an innocent Palestinian man minding his own business?

Reporters at the scene say the man, who wore camouflage, rushed through a police checkpoint while carrying a weapon when police opened fire.

Oh...

[shira]

10. (BBC) "Palestinian shot dead after Jerusalem attack kills two,"

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4706944,00.html

Because the welfare of the terrorist is of primary concern & his death is just as bad as the murders he perpetrated.

[shira]

11. "A 16 year old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli police this morning"

Horrifying headline, right? Damned Israelis!

Of course, this boy just happened to stab 2 elderly religious Jews.

https://www.facebook.com/TheIndependentOnline/posts/10153171885986636

[shira]

23. Exactly. It's pathetic. n/t

[shira]

13. Jewish Man Dies as Rocks Pelt His Car in East Jerusalem ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-violence.html

Somehow the rocks propelled themselves. And the man just up and died. No murder here, folks!

A Jewish man died early Monday morning after attackers pelted the road he was driving on with rocks

Oh...they were only pelting the road, see?

[shira]

14. (BBC) Jerusalem car 'attack' kills baby at rail station

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29725278

Damned cars attacking people all the time!

BBC believes its best to put emphasis on the vehicle rather than the Palestinian driver.

[6chars]

15. Was the baby Palestinian?

Oh no, American.

[shira]

16. (NYT) "Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager in West Bank"

Why?

Why God, why?

Just a teenager FFS!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/world/middleeast/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-teenager-in-west-bank.html

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday as he and others hurled stones and rocks at their army vehicle,

Oh...

[shira]

17. (NYT 11/27/2015) "Palestinians Killed After Hit-and-Run Attacks"

Hmmm......so the NYT reports Palestinians killed were victims of hit-and-run attacks.

The Israeli authorities said troops shot and killed two Palestinians who had rammed their cars into soldiers, injuring eight, in separate attacks on Friday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/world/middleeast/west-bank-hit-and-run-attacks.html?ref=middleeast&_r=1

[shira]

18. How did the French react to a biased headline after the terror attack in Paris?

[shira]

19. Daily Mail makes Terrorist into Victim, part 397....

Jerusalem's streets run red with blood: Israeli police shoot dead man who stabbed border guard at Damascus Gate - the 99th Palestinian to die in latest wave of violence

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3338131/Palestinian-man-shot-dead-police-Jerusalem-stabbing-Israeli-border-guard-neck.html#ixzz3t15F72c4
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[shira]

20. Guardian headline on terror attack focuses on death of Palestinian perpetrator

Two Palestinians shot dead after knife attack in West Bank shop
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/two-palestinians-shot-dead-knife-attack-west-bank-israel

[Little Tich]

27. Were there any other fatalities than the two Palestinians?

The blurb immediately after the headline states quite clearly what's going on: "Two Israeli women stabbed before security guard kills attackers at mini-market". It's normal to focus on fatalities in the headline. I can't see even remotely how this could be seem as media bias against Israel.

[shira]

28. You probably don't see anything wrong with any headlines throughout the thread....

Many people only read headlines, and this one is misleading.

Not as bad as many others on this thread, I'll grant you that....

[Little Tich]

29. I know that BBC actually displays some anti-Israel bias, even thought it's not really an issue about

headlines.

Fortunately, the bias doesn't make them unreliable, just as the pro-Israel bias in Arutz Sheva doesn't make them unreliable either.

I don't think the issue is really that important, the perceived anti-Israel bias feels more like a pro-Israel ploy to avoid unfavorable news being reported.

[shira]

30. It's a big problem. Great article written about this bias/hostility....

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/

[shira]

21. Headline Abuse Continues as Israel Portrayed as Aggressor

More die as violence and finger-pointing plague Israel, Palestinians
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/17/middleeast/israel-palestinian-tensions/

Just more die, nothing about terrorist perpetrator against innocents defending themselves. So terrorists = innocents killed as just more dying to violence.


Israeli security forces kill four more Palestinians as knife attacks continue
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11937839/Israeli-security-forces-kill-three-more-Palestinians-in-stabbing-incidents.html

Because it's more important to cast Israel as the aggressor, see?

[leftynyc]

22. No - we can't fix it

The problem is thousands of years old and bibi is simply the latest excuse for it. Meanwhile, nobody I know thinks the Guardian is anything but a joke and we already know what happened to Al Jazeera America - it failed within a year or two. The others are already being more careful.

[shira]

24. I'd expect these sick headlines from neo-Nazis. Hmmm....... n/t

[aranthus]

25. Are any of these papers considered Right of Center?

Or are they all Left wing?

[shira]

31. Latest from CBS News: "3 Palestinians killed as daily violence grinds on".

Unprecedented Chutzpah.

Nothing in the headline about those 3 shooting and killing a police officer first. Just daily violence, a cycle of it, you know...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-slams-slanted-cbs-headline-on-jerusalem-attack/

Really folks, it's just an honest innocent mistake....portraying Israel as aggressor and Palestinian terrorists as passive victims.



A mistake that keeps being repeated over and over again for some reason we can't quite figure out....

[aranthus]

32. Makes my point.

It isn't that all of the press has this problem. Just the Left wing.

[shira]

33. IB Times UK blames victim for Palestinian attacks with grossly distorted headline....

Israel: Three Palestinians shot dead as US vice president Joe Biden arrives for talks
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/israel-three-palestinians-shot-dead-us-vice-president-joe-biden-arrives-talks-1548329

Headline was eventually changed, but it's still in the URL.