A new study from The Washington Institute for Near East Studies has published a news study that sheds further light on the Washington Post’s biased coverage towards the war in Gaza. According to Robert Satloff, the Post accounts for 72 percent of all non-official anonymous sources.
The study looked at “seven leading U.S. media platforms—the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, along with ABC News, CBS News, ABC News, and CNN.”
It further found 436 stories included anonymous sourcing, but 379 included “government or organizational official or someone described as being knowledgeable about sensitive political, military, or diplomatic issues.”
That left 57 stories “that cited local people as anonymous sources.” Of these, 41 came from the Washington Post.
Satloff notes some justifications “were simply bizarre, such as one…
