Media’s Pro Forma Bashing of Israel’s Response to Gaza Protests Posted on: April 24, 2018 17:13 +00:00 [12:13 EST] UPDATE: Two armed Gazans with a grenade and a knife were arrested today after crossing into Israel, having breached a security fence. “It was not immediately clear what the suspects’ intentions were in Israel,” writes the Times of Israel, […]
FIT TO PRINT?: The Fishy Business of the New York Times in Iran March 14, 2016 A version of this article was published in The Mideast Reporter. Mr. Kirchick subsequently joined Mideast Dig as a Contributing Editor. UPDATE JANUARY 28, 2025: Not “fit to print” in the archive? Apparently, the New York Times article about […]
HADIDISM: Does Peter Baker of the New York Times have a Diaa Hadid Problem? [Part 2] Click the link to view Part 1. Posted on: April 14, 2016 02:43 +00:00 [21:43 EST] “The shit that went down”—see the end of Part One in this multi-part series —was Diaa Hadid’s description to me of the sandstorm of criticism […]
DAGGERS & DIAMONDS: Equating Attackers and Victims A version of this story was first published in The Mideast Reporter. It’s no shocker that roughly 60% of Americans don’t read beyond the headlines of news stories — as was revealed in an in-depth study in 2014 by the American Press Institute. (The true number is undoubtedly higher, since […]
HADIDISM: Does Peter Baker of the New York Times have a Diaa Hadid Problem? [Part 1] Click the link to view Part 2. Posted on: March 29, 2016 19:10 +00:00 [14:10 EST] By all accounts, Peter Baker is a straight shooter when it comes to fair and honest reporting, and he enjoys a stellar reputation as a result. […]
Finally: White House Rips Linking of Jews to ‘APES & PIGS’ by Egypt’s Morsi, After Forbes Report [Part 2] Click the links to view Part 1 and Part 3. The follow-up below was published on January 15th, 2013. A third (and final) probe—titled “There He Goes Again: Egypt’s Morsi Stuns U.S. Senators In Meeting With […]
The Media Intifada Bad Math and Ugly Truths about the New York Times (and Many Western Media Outlets) in the Israel-Hamas War of 2014… Originally Published at Forbes.com; August 21, 2014 It’s a “media intifada,” notes Gary Weiss, an old colleague and one of the world’s top business investigative reporters. He is referring of course to the […]