Viewpoint: US media bias in covering Israel and Palestine 1381


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To suggest that the lower level of reporting of Palestinian rests (compared to Israeli rests) in the media is evideince of racism in the media is clearly nonsense.

Media publishes the stories that people are interested in. Five people die in train accident in New Zealand is a story. Five people die in a train accidient in Indonesia and nobody in Australia cares. The situation is probably reversed in the Malaysian media. Doesn't mean that the Australian media is anti-Indonesian, or the Malaysian media is anti-New Zealand. People want to hear stories about people like themselves, particularly if there might be a personal connection.

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Israel is a modern reasonably affluent democracy, and the people that live there are often culturally more similar to people in the US than are Palestinian people and culture. There is also a good chance of personal connections, because of the extensive tourism and migration links between the two countries. So stories in Israel get more of a run than stories in Palestine, just as we are more interested in events in NZ than we are in comparable events in Indonesia.

So, sorry, its not an international Jewish conspiracy. Again.

 



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