A peer-reviewed study of 1,559 New York Times articles on the Gaza war found that the newspaper\u2019s coverage was biased against Israel, including by minimizing Israeli casualties and giving insufficient attention to Hamas\u2019 role in the conflict.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Edieal Pinker of the Yale School of Management examined Times coverage published between Oct. 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024, for research published in the academic journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pinker concluded that the newspaper disproportionately focused on Palestinian suffering and violence attributed to Israel while giving less attention to Israeli casualties and Palestinian violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The study said the coverage \u201cassign[ed] near-exclusive agency and responsibility to Israel while diminishing Hamas\u2019s role in sustaining the conflict.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPersonal accounts of Palestinian suffering appear two out of every three days, while comparable accounts of Israeli suffering rarely appear,\u201d Pinker said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The study also found that Israel was depicted as the \u201csole aggressor\u201d after the Hamas attack and \u201cseemingly bears no costs from conducting the war except for a loss of international support and public sympathy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
By contrast, it said, \u201cPalestinians are portrayed as passive victims whose suffering grows daily as they are relentlessly attacked by the Israeli military.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Times rejected Pinker\u2019s assessment of its reporting. Responding to the study\u2019s initial findings last year, the newspaper said it \u201chas covered this war with more rigor than virtually any other US news organization, reporting on the conflict from all angles.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remain open to good-faith disagreement but will not change our coverage to buttress entrenched perspectives,\u201d the Times said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
More than 73,000 people have been killed in Gaza during the war, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. The ministry\u2019s overall death toll does not distinguish between terrorists and civilians and has not been independently verified. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A peer-reviewed study of 1,559 New York Times articles on the Gaza war found that the newspaper\u2019s coverage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-615792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}