#MediaBias / Jewish Insider wants WAPO's coverage of the Middle East to be more like that of NYT and WSJ ... 🤔
Jewish Insider claims the Washington Post is "under fire" for "repeated anti-Israel bias, systemic sloppiness in Middle East coverage."
The "fire" seems to be repeated claims by sources such as Jewish Insider editors themselves, Time of Israel and organizations such as #ADL, #CAMERA and few others.
No need to remind anyone who or what #ADL is and how it operates https://droptheadl.org/, but CAMERA (so called "Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America") is possibly even worse.
"To its supporters, CAMERA is figuratively - and perhaps literally - doing God's work, battling insidious anti-Israeli bias in the media. But its detractors see CAMERA as a myopic and vindictive special interest group trying to muscle its views into media coverage. ... To many in the media CAMERA is ... an advocacy group trying to impose its pro-Israeli views on mainstream journalism." --- The Boston Globe, Mark Jurkowitz observed https://web.archive.org/web/20090213190540/http://www.hnn.us/comments/8390.html
The most relevant part in the WAPO's editor's note, later added to the article, states:
"The article incorrectly said that all Palestinian mothers who received authorization to leave Gaza for humanitarian reasons had to return to Gaza to reapply after their permits expired. In fact, it was not always necessary for mothers to return to Gaza."
They also mention addition of comments from Israeli officials.
"Some" is not none, but WAPO correcting itself should be praised. Jewish Insider and the other critics mentioned though want to discredit yet another publication documenting Israel's #WarCrimes in Gaza.
Jewish Insider seem to claim that WAPO's coverage of Israel must be biased, because its tone and findings seem to be very different from that of NYT and WSJ. But, is that a bad thing?
Considering the NYT exploitative coverage of the unconfirmed systematic rape by Hamas militants (in which its reporter misled one of the victims' family) and the hit job on #UNRWA the #IDF ran in the WWSJ, the Washington Post has really nothing to apologize for.
[cont'd] #MediaBias / How the Times stumbled on a sensitive Israel story
Critics have questioned the Times' portrayal of "weaponized sexual violence" by #Hamas, arguing the evidence presented does not conclusively prove it was a deliberate strategy.
The controversy has led to internal tensions at the Times amid a hunt for leakers and allegations of targeting Arab journalists, which the Times deny.
The Times relied heavily on two Israeli researchers, Anat Schwartz and Adam Sella, for reporting the story, raising questions about objectivity and vetting of local sources. The practice of top foreign correspondents using local stringers/fixers for on-the-ground reporting, while common, carries risks of getting manipulated information or unreliable accounts.
[cont'd] "turn the strip into a slaughterhouse": #NYT investigating Israeli reporter who liked tweet calling to turn Gaza into 'slaughterhouse'
Schwartz began writing for the newspaper last November and focused mainly on the reactions of the Israeli public to the October 7 attack and the war that broke out as a result.
Israeli sources are concerned that the newspaper's decision to question the investigative report on #Hamas terrorists' sexual violence on October 7 due to reporter Anat Schwartz's involvement, could aid deniers in discrediting the credibility of reports about Hamas' sexual assaults.
Walla journalist David Wertheim, author of the #genocide cheerleading tweet, not apologizing … justifies IDFs action in Gaza on basis of “large public support” …
[…] The act of publishers monitoring social media posts and likes is inherently anti-journalistic. This type of "regulatory" behavior by bosses who track tweets and likes constitutes surveillance that undermines journalistic independence and freedom.
Wertheim insists Schawartz liking his post should not invite scrutiny of her “work”.
[cont'd] #MediaBias / The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
[...] The fear among #NYT staffers who have been critical of the paper’s #Gaza coverage is that Schwartz will become a scapegoat for what is a much deeper failure. She may harbor animosity toward Palestinians, lack the experience with investigative journalism, and feel conflicting pressures between being a supporter of Israel’s war effort and a Times reporter, but Schwartz did not commission herself and her nephew to report one of the most consequential stories of the war. Senior leadership at the New York Times did.
So who is Anat Schwartz?
She's an Israeli filmmaker with no prior journalism experience. She was assigned to work on a controversial New York Times investigation into alleged #Hamas sexual violence, despite lacking objectivity. She was paired with veteran Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman, though she and Sella did most of the reporting.
She pushed for the Times story alleging systematic Hamas sexual violence to be published quickly to aid Israeli propaganda, despite lack of evidence. Furthermore, she relied heavily on testimony from dubious sources, like Israeli officials and #Zaka workers, who known for spreading false information. Even worse, she dismissed her own doubts and lack of forensic evidence to remain convinced of the sexual violence claims.
Schwartz had liked tweets saying Israel should "turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse" and that Palestinians were "human animals".
[…] Pro-Israel groups, deeply critical of American news outlets such as the Washington Post over their coverage of the war in #Gaza, have been working in public and behind-the-scenes to discredit specific journalists seen as biased against #Israel.
[…] #SKDK, the Washington, D.C. public relations firm with close ties to President Joe #Biden’s White House, has been running communications for the 10/7 Project, a consortium of five Jewish organizations founded last year to promote “continued US support for Israel and counter misinformation about the Israel/Hamas war.” Over the past several months, that work has largely consisted of sharing daily memos to journalists pointing out what the group sees as flaws in coverage, such as what it sees as under-coverage of #Hamas’ sexual assaults of Israeli hostages taken on 10/7 and failures to acknowledge the US government’s assessment that Hamas had a military presence at the Al-Shifa hospital. https://www.semafor.com/article/02/18/2024/pro-israel-group-targets-post-reporter
@oatmeal@israel@palestine I have noticed that WaPo has been publishing much more balanced articles on #gaza#palestine than NYT. Unlike NYT, WaPo has not done weird things like inviting an Israeli non-journalist, Anat Schwartz, pretend to be a NYT reporter. You can spot some Arab last names among WaPo reporters but not in NYT.
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