Covering Up for NPR
As a federal corporation reconsiders NPR's objectivity, leading newspapers ignore studies showing bias
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WASHINGTON POST WATCH: Editorial Myopia
Is it possible to look right but be wrong? Yes, and a Washington Post
editorial on Israel’s Gaza Strip withdrawal, "Mr. Sharon’s
Resolve" (August 18) showed how.
Location, Location, Location: The Washington Post sees terrorist attacks in London but rarely in Israel
In the two weeks following the July 7 bombings in London, Washington Post writers frequently labeled the perpetrators as "terrorists" and the explosions themselves as "terrorist attacks." However, the Post only once described attacks by Palestinian Arabs against Israeli non-combatants during this period as "terrorism" or the perpetrators as "terrorists."
Washington Post Sanitizes Hamas
Errors of emphasis, omissions, imbalance, and lack of context make a story by the Post's new Israel correspondent highly misleading, and show that a new correspondent is not enough; the paper needs a new paradigm in its Arab-Israeli coverage.
The Washington Post on Syria in Lebanon
While Syrian troops reportedly completed their withdrawal from Lebanon on April 26, ending their 29-year occupation, the >Washington Post foreign news coverage avoided the "o" word – occupation – in regard to Syrian forces in Lebanon almost completely.
Updated: The “Contiguity” Double Standard
After Israel approved building a new neighborhood in Ma'aleh Adumim, a few miles east of Jerusalem, many news reports wrongly indicated that such building would prevent Palestinians from controlling "contiguous territory" in the West Bank.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: April Omissions
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: March Madness
Ha’aretz, Washington Post Do Damage Control for Abu Mazen
WASHINGTON POST WATCH: February Follies
Editorializing in the news, sanitizing an editorial, and odd omissions marred Washington Post Arab-Israeli coverage in February