Comments on: The American (Zionist) Media and “Relative Calm”

By: Haitham

Haitham — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:57:39 +0000

Thank you for the link, Yenayer.

By: Yenayer

Yenayer — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:20:59 +0000

An interesting article in the same subject on Common Dreams.

For US Media, ‘Calm’ Means ‘Calm for Israel’ : http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0227-22.htm

By: Haitham

Haitham — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:21:56 +0000

Dear Issam and sume. Thank you for your insight.

Please note that’s not what I have said. That’s what Fair.org said:

FAIR’s study examined the January through June 2001 transcripts of NPR’s four main news programs–Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Weekend All Things Considered-—as found on the Nexis news database. To identify references to fatal Israeli and Palestinian attacks, FAIR searched for transcripts containing keywords such as death, died, killed, fatal, etc., as well as the words Israel, Israeli, Palestinian or Palestine….

In case you missed it, the full report is here: http://www.fair.org/research/npr-israel.html

Keeping in mind that that report is old (Dec 2001), so it’s good to hear that they have improved.

By: sume

sume — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:28:00 +0000

I don’t have too many good things to say about mainstream American media either, but NPR is better than the rest. Of course it isn’t perfect and some programs are better than others, but compared to FOX, MSNBC, CNN, etc. it’s okay. Even good shows like Democracy Now could improve their coverage. It simply means, it’s up to all of us to keep digging for the truth and put it out there.

By: Issam

Issam — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:43:12 +0000

I disagree about what you said regarding NPR. I have been living in America for the last 6 years and I am a NPR addict. I listen to it 2-3 hours a day and their coverage never seazed to impress me as fair and objective.

I am not trying to defend the American media but I think that the survey is too general and missing an important fact ” the novelty factor in media”. The Novelty factor, which is in this case leans heavely toward the Israels casualities. If somebody dies in Fracne, a place where there is a relative calm then the accident will get a wide coverage in the media in comparrison to the same casuality in Baghdad, where audience excepts to hear about Iraqi or American casualities to be reported in daily basis.
It is the same with the 9/11 victims