Spanish media and public discourse displayed far more interest in the Israeli minister’s faraway humiliation of the group than in the Basque police’s home-court violent welcome for the same activists, CAMERA Español's Masha Gabriel writes in JNS.
Two articles by influential Spanish news agency EFE articles published four months apart reveal with striking clarity a double standard in the news agency's coverage of Palestinian suffering versus Israeli suffering.
EFE's and RTVE's preoccupation with defending themselves against false accusations of passing off old Kabul images as current scenes from Iran detracted from justified criticism of instances in which the mainstream Spanish news outlets provided less than rigorous reporting.
