Category Archives: AP Media Bias

Media bias: Kassam attack update

The AP headline has changed, there’s a new author, the boilerplates remain, and the lede is different, but the spin remains the same: Rocket Wounds Dozens of Israeli Troops Sep 11, 7:58 AM (ET) By YANIV ZOHAR ZIKIM, Israel (AP) … Continue reading

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Monitoring the AP anti-Israel bias

Let’s keep an eye on this story. Here’s the first AP story on the kassam that landed in a military base in the Negev: Rocket Hits Sleeping Israeli Soldiers By ARON HELLER – 59 minutes ago JERUSALEM (AP) — A … Continue reading

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Israeli Double Standard Time, Temple Mount version

Say, remember that worldwide media blitz about how Israeli archeologists were going to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque by building a new ramp to the Temple Mount? Remember the incredibly biased stories that insisted on minimizing the Temple Mount’s meaning to … Continue reading

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One more media bias post

The AP picked up on the Palestinian “civilians” killed by Israel today (go read this post and you’ll get the snark to the scare quotes), and of course, focused on the 11-year-old boy who was caught in the crossfire. They … Continue reading

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The narrative changes

Funny how over the last few days, the IDF scored more than a few hits on terrorists, and the media mostly ignored it—because the terrorists were effectively caught red-handed launching rockets at Israeli towns. There was no “poor, poor, pitiful … Continue reading

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It isn’t raining rain you know, it’s raining rockets

Rockets continue to fall in Sderot. And the world media continues to ignore this fact. Ynet: Palestinians in north Gaza fired two Qassams toward Israel on Tuesday. One rocket struck a vacant Na’amat daycare center in the western Negev city … Continue reading

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What’s missing from this story?

Update: Ha’aretz says it was a rocket fired at Israel that fell on a house in Beit Lahiya. Looks like the AP was played. A Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants struck the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing an … Continue reading

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The AP reads my blog

Check out this change in the story about Palestinians entering Israel. From yesterday’s story: Hamas, which wrested control of the Gaza Strip last month, denounced the deal since it allowed Israel to decide who could enter Gaza. Hamas officials and … Continue reading

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Nasrallah taunts Israel from secure, undisclosed location

The great, brave leader of Hezbollah, who was hiding in some underground bunker somewhere, afraid to show his face, told Israel that she had achieved none of her objectives during last year’s war. Proof again that the Arab/Muslim world seems … Continue reading

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Palestinians trapped in Egypt heading home

The Palestinians trapped in Egypt will be heading home via Israel and then into Gaza. The AP piece looks almost balanced. Israel has agreed to allow Palestinians stranded in Egypt for weeks to pass into Israel and then into the … Continue reading

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Unless…

This, rather mundane these days headline, is repeated every week or so: UN Mideast envoy warns of Gaza collapse The U.N. Mideast envoy warned Wednesday of impending economic collapse in the Gaza Strip unless Israel reopens the Hamas-led territory’s main … Continue reading

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AP passes along Hezb propaganda

The AP is joining the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times with this piece of garbage, and the New York Times-owned International Herald Tribune was only too happy to pass it along: BEIRUT, Lebanon: Militant Hezbollah … Continue reading

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AP media bias in action

You know how I keep telling you that the media never acknowledges the deaths of Israelis the way it leaps onto the deaths of Palestinians? Well, take a look at this headline. Notice how the death is reported. Israeli Soldier … Continue reading

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Muslim ERA Watch: AP buys Iran BS

The AP ran a nice little fluff piece about how the Mad Mullah might accept some moves forward for women in Iran. Of course it’s all crap, but the AP never lets the facts get in the way of pretending … Continue reading

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The media bias, part the next

Hey, kids. If it’s a day that ends with a “y,” it’s time for the AP anti-Israel media bias. Let’s start, as always, with the headline. Israeli Troops Kill 10 Palestinians No doubt there what happened. But please note that … Continue reading

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