The answer to that is yes … in Israel, anyway. In a war started by Hamas with a grotesque massacre and pillaging of southern Israel, the New York Times has spent more time criticizing the victim rather than the perp. We know that thanks to an analysis conducted by Lilac Sigan for the Jerusalem Post, who researched the stories featured by the ‘Paper of Record’ in its newsletters since the start of the war.
Sigan found the coverage fairly balanced … for the first week of the war. After Israel launched its ground operations in Gaza, however, criticism of Hamas shrunk dramatically in comparison to that of Israel — and disappeared altogether about two months ago.
First, let’s look at Sigan’s methodology:
Since the number of headlines is enormous, and it’s difficult to rank each one according to its placement and size in the print paper, time spent on the homepage, and digital channel…
