Ricki Hollander

August 15, 2002

Time Magazine’s One-Sided Feature on Palestinians

In its August 19, 2002 edition, Time Magazine published a one-sided portrait of Palestinian grievances omitting crucial context. In photographs by James Nachtwey, whose full photo essay is displayed on Time's website
(www.time.com), and an article by Matt Rees reporting from Beit Jala, Time focused exclusively on Palestinian
perspectives of the current Israeli-Palestinian crisis.

July 1, 2002

The World’s Version of Mideast History

From May 20 through May 24, 2002, The World's Patrick Cox presented a five-part special report entitled "A Middle East History," where he attempted to sum up the complex history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in brief soundbytes, drawing heavily on Arab propaganda claims, omitting relevant information, and skewing the facts.