Former AP Reporter Details Cover-Ups, Intimidation and Bias in Israel Coverage

Friedman described wildly unbalanced staffing levels of foreign news bureaus in Israel; the bias against reporting Palestinian corruption, while highlighting the issue in Israel; and concealing Hamas intimidation of reporters, while prominently highlighting any stories that Israel had censored.  John Hames shared with you:   Former AP Reporter Details Cover-Ups, Intimidation and Bias in Israel Coverage theblaze.com - A former Jerusalem-based reporter for the Associated Press has written a lengthy piece documenting what he says is the institutional bias that guides the mainstream media's Israel-Palestinian coverage. Matti Friedman was an AP Jerusalem bureau reporter and editor from 2006 and 2011 and describes himself as "a liberal" and "a believer in the importance of the 'mainstream' media." But after working for years in the industry and observing the coverage of the latest round of violence, Friedman penned an article in Tablet – an online publication covering Jewish issues – in which he characterized media coverage of Israel as "a narrative construct that is largely fiction" and accused his former colleagues in the international press of being guided not by journalistic ethics, but by their political worldview. Available on the App Store.

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