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Source: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-842801
Study: New York Times Coverage of Israel-Hamas War Generated "Imbalanced Sympathy for Palestinians"
(Jerusalem Post) Mathilda Heller - A recently published study by Yale Professor Edieal Pinker found that the New York Times's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war generated "sympathy for the Palestinian people" while at the same time "diminishing Hamas's responsibility for their situation and the continuation of the war." Analyzing 1,561 articles published between Oct. 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024, Pinker found a "dominant narrative" that revolved around the number of Palestinians killed as a result of Israel's military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack rather than the losses on the Israeli side. "Little mention is made of Israeli casualties post-October 7 or of Palestinian acts of violence post-October 7." While personal stories of Palestinian or Lebanese suffering are generally featured on two out of every three days, "it is common to go a week at a time without a single mention of IDF deaths even when such deaths were frequent." Pinker argued that these imbalances fail "to give readers an understanding of how Israelis are experiencing the war."