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That something, according to former Associated Press reporter Matti Friedman, is the grossly disproportionate number of journalists assigned to covering Israel—more, Friedman writes, than “AP had in China, Russia, or India, or in all of the 50 countries of sub-Saharan Africa combined.”
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Investigations into Palestinian Authority corruption or Abbas’s rejection of peace offers are simply quashed, while exposés of Israeli intransigence merit headlines. Friedman believes the reason is anti-Semitism, the willingness to associate Jews with the worst traits in today’s world, namely, militarism, colonialism, and racism.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
the CBS Nightly News with the words, “And that’s the way it was.” Few of his viewers found it extraordinary that the clash and turmoil of billions of human
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
No amount of spin can separate the public’s prurient fascination with Israel from the media’s hunger for ratings.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
“Every Hebrew boy in the Land of Israel now weighs as ten, as we have lost Jewish communities ten times as large as the Jewish community of Palestine,” writes Gutman, inspired by Tabenkin.