Media Analysis of US Coverage of Arab-Israeli Conflict - Part 3

Like most Americans, Alison Weir, the editor of a small-town newspaper in California, knew very little about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, other than what she had gleaned from the evening news or newspaper headlines. As a journalist, her attention was on issues much closer to home. Neither a muslim nor a jew, she nevertheless became more curious about the topic of the Palestinian uprising. And as she researched it, she became increasingly suspicious that the American media were not telling us the whole story. Months later, she traveled to the occupied territories as an independent journalist to find out for herself what the U.S. media seemed to be omitting.

Three months after returning from Palestine, Alison Weir quit her job and founded If Americans Knew, an organization dedicated to quantifying the ways in which the American media was misinforming the public about the conflict. Ms. Weir explains her group's methodology, analyzes the data, and reports on the key findings.

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News & Politics

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• palestine
• israel
• media
• propaganda
• bias
• us
• terrorism
• civilian
• collateral
• damage
• hamas
• hezbollah
• sharon
• olmert
• livni
• barak

[aliov85]

Thanks for sharing

[mingoi313]

You are most welcome.

[JohannMint]

Thanks for that, very interesting!

[allchangesintime]

I'm new to looking at this conflict. Thanks for this. I don't understand why the coverage is so biased though. Why are they not reporting deaths equally. Sounds like bad journalism to me.

[pervazeshaheen]

Good work. I think this world would be better if media reports the facts with impartiality. Media paints the image of people against some specific agenda as abnormal or mentally retarded people.

[mariochap]

Israel can do what ever he wants to do to obtain the land. He got the tanks, war planes, rifles and the US country money anytime he need it. The jude are strong in politic connections and they have POWER (money and so on). I do not agree with it but this is what we are in front of. So they kill and none of us is