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2025-02-10 Home Front: WoT

NY Times downplays Israeli post-Oct. 7 losses, Hamas role in war, data study says

[IsraelTimes] Research by Yale professor says newspaper minimizes Palestinian violence following Hamas attack on Israel, leaving readers with ‘distorted’ view of the conflict

If I recall correctly, the New York Times received something like $50 million from USAID alone since 2021. Is there a connection?

New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
coverage of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
war downplayed Israeli losses incurred after the October 7, 2023, Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
invasion of Israel and minimized the role of Paleostinian violence in perpetuating the conflict, according to a Yale professor’s analysis.

Edieal Pinker, a professor and deputy dean at the Yale School of Management, analyzed 1,561 New York Times articles about the war published between October 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024, for the study released last month.

The coverage fit into a "specific narrative," the study said. That narrative said that Hamas carried out a "brutal assault" on Israelis, mostly civilians, but that after that attack, Israel was the "sole aggressor" and bore few costs from the war, aside from declining international support.

The coverage following the Hamas attack instead focused on Paleostinian suffering, portraying Paleostinians as "passive victims whose suffering grows daily." There was extensive coverage of Israeli violence, but less mention of Israeli hostages, Hamas casualties, Paleostinian violence, Israeli casualties after the Hamas attack and Israeli suffering that was not directly tied to October 7.

"Little mention is made of Israeli casualties post-October 7 or of Paleostinian acts of violence post-October 7, even as Israel and Hamas were locked in intensive combat over the eight months of the study period," the study said.

The study was published last month in SSRN, a platform for working research papers that have not yet been peer-reviewed. The study was not sponsored by Yale. Pinker has a background in data analysis and has previously studied demographics in US Jewish communities.

The New York Times is regularly criticized by both Israel’s supporters, and its detractors, for its coverage of the conflict, including before the start of the latest war.