Washington Post
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Palestinians vs. Palestinians? The Post Is Mute
Palestinians kill fellow Palestinians. Israel takes in some of those fleeing and hospitalizes some of the wounded. The Post chops Israeli humanitarian aid out of a wire dispatch and downplays the rest of the news. Editing, or slanting?
Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls
A number of authors have claimed that Israelis support negotiating with Hamas. But the poll they cite is both deeply flawed and contradicted by a much more extensive and credible poll published at the same time.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Managing Editor ‘Wants More Muslim Readers, Journalists’
Post Editor Philip Bennett highlighted what he thinks is wrong with news coverage of Islam in a speech at UC Irvine. But Mr. Bennett's self-contradictory talk suggests that his own perceptions contribute to the problem.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Myopia Mars Post Coverage
Coverage by the Washington Post of Samir Kuntar's release by Israel suggests grossly defective news judgement, including by Bureau Chief Griff Witte.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Freudian Projection at the Washington Post
"Replying" to criticism of Washington Post Arab-Israeli coverage, editor David Hoffman engaged in name-calling, apparently unable to offer any substantive defense of his paper's reporting.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Simple Story, Simplistic Coverage
The Washington Post’s coverage of a June 5, 2008 Palestinian terrorist attack that killed an Israeli was simplistic and inadequate. Unlike the New York Times' article on the event, the Post lacked or obscured basic detail and implied a false moral equivalence between Israelis and their murderers.
WASHINGTON POST WATCH: Post Sees Israel’s Birth Through Arab Eyes
The Washington Post ostensibly showcased Israel's 60th birthday with a top-center, page-one article. The article actually showcased a chronic distortion in Post Arab-Israeli coverage: filtering the Jewish state through the fun house mirror of Palestinian Arab beliefs.
Insisting on an Error: The Washington Post – Infallible, or Just in Denial?
The headline over Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell's April 20 column read, "Was 'Excluded' the Wrong Word?" The column itself proved that it was, and yet the ombudsman did not find that a correction was necessary to the assertion that "except for a relatively small Druze population," Israel excludes its Arab citizens from military service.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: The Post Against Itself on Gaza, Carter
Two articles, one over the other on the same page in The Washington Post's April 10 edition, highlight the paper's chronic weakness for imprecise, even misleading language in Arab-Israeli coverage.