Comments on: NYT and the Perils of Mideast 'Balance' http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/04/nyt-and-the-perils-of-mideast-balance/ The national media watch group Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:12:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Does NYT’s Top Israel Reporter Have a Son in the IDF? « Miscellany101’s Weblog http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/04/nyt-and-the-perils-of-mideast-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-11985 Does NYT’s Top Israel Reporter Have a Son in the IDF? « Miscellany101’s Weblog Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:12:12 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=5250#comment-11985 [...] That said, Bronner’s reporting has been repeatedly criticized by FAIR for what would appear to be a bias toward the Israeli government. For example, Extra! (3/09) questioned an article that Bronner (1/13/09) wrote on Israel’s 2009 invasion of Gaza that claimed that unspecified “polls have shown nearly 90 percent support for the war thus far”; FAIR’s magazine noted that this was “a statistical unlikelihood in a country that is 20 percent Palestinian.” The same piece by Bronner claimed that “the largest demonstration against the war so far, with some 6,000 participants, was organized by an Arab political party”; an article by Agence France-Presse (1/3/09) had reported that “tens of thousands” of Israeli Arabs had protested against the war in the Israeli town of Sakhnin. (See also Extra!, 1-2/08, 7/09; FAIR Blog, 2/4/09). [...] [...] That said, Bronner's reporting has been repeatedly criticized by FAIR for what would appear to be a bias toward the Israeli government. For example, Extra! (3/09) questioned an article that Bronner (1/13/09) wrote on Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza that claimed that unspecified "polls have shown nearly 90 percent support for the war thus far"; FAIR's magazine noted that this was "a statistical unlikelihood in a country that is 20 percent Palestinian." The same piece by Bronner claimed that "the largest demonstration against the war so far, with some 6,000 participants, was organized by an Arab political party"; an article by Agence France-Presse (1/3/09) had reported that "tens of thousands" of Israeli Arabs had protested against the war in the Israeli town of Sakhnin. (See also Extra!, 1-2/08, 7/09; FAIR Blog, 2/4/09). [...]

]]> By: New York Times fails to disclose Jerusalem bureau chief’s conflict of interest « Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/04/nyt-and-the-perils-of-mideast-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-11724 New York Times fails to disclose Jerusalem bureau chief’s conflict of interest « Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:47:33 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=5250#comment-11724 [...] was also criticized by the media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) (See “NYT and the Perils of Mideast ‘Balance’,” 4 February [...] [...] was also criticized by the media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) (See "NYT and the Perils of Mideast 'Balance'," 4 February [...]

]]> By: New York Times fails to disclose Jerusalem bureau chief’s conflict of interest | NWOTruth http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/04/nyt-and-the-perils-of-mideast-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-11701 New York Times fails to disclose Jerusalem bureau chief’s conflict of interest | NWOTruth Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:50:29 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=5250#comment-11701 [...] was also criticized by the media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) (See “NYT and the Perils of Mideast ‘Balance’,” 4 February [...] [...] was also criticized by the media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) (See "NYT and the Perils of Mideast 'Balance'," 4 February [...]

]]> By: www.buzzflash.net http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/02/04/nyt-and-the-perils-of-mideast-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-2685 www.buzzflash.net Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:11:36 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=5250#comment-2685 <strong>NYT and the Perils of Mideast 'Balance'...</strong> "New York Times reporters Ethan Bronner and Sabrina Tavernise went to Gaza (2/4/09) to look into stories of civilian atrocities, and turned up some very powerful examples. Unfortunately, the impact of that reporting was undermined by the all-too-f... NYT and the Perils of Mideast 'Balance'…

"New York Times reporters Ethan Bronner and Sabrina Tavernise went to Gaza (2/4/09) to look into stories of civilian atrocities, and turned up some very powerful examples. Unfortunately, the impact of that reporting was undermined by the all-too-f…

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