The largest Canadian newspapers have given disproportionate attention to the deaths of Israelis, portrayed Israelis in more humanized ways, characterized their deaths as more worthy of indignation, and more often identified who was responsible for killing them, a comprehensive comparison of reporting on the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians reveals.
The Breach analyzed thousands of sentences in coverage in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and National Post from Oct. 7 to Nov. 24. The study found that dozens of Palestinian deaths were required to merit just one mention in the newspapers, while there was one mention of Israeli deaths for every two Israelis who died.
The study shows a pattern of anti-Palestinian bias in Canada’s establishment media, sanitizing political violence against Palestinians and unequally stirring emotions about Israeli deaths.
Despite the unprecedented scale of Israeli bombing that has killed 20,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, the newspapers have never used emotionally evocative terms like “massacre” or “slaughter” to describe their deaths. Meanwhile, they regularly used those terms to describe the Hamas attack on Israelis on Oct. 7, when militants killed 1,139 people.
Wow, this is impressive journalism. The war on truth and efforts to sanitize genocide over the last few months have been incredibly troubling to see. The article has some great graphs! I think I’ll start subscribing to Breach this year!
The Breach is awesome!
And so are you for sharing such important articles :)
Here’s a link without tracking:
https://breachmedia.ca/palestinian-deaths-canadian-newspapers-data/
Oh, come on, all sides are doing that. The newspaper in countries on the side of Hamas/Palestine do exactly the opposite. It is unfortunate that this war (as any other) divides the world on sides, but what else is new?
Just cause you say “everyone else does it” should never justify not calling it out.
Evil prevails when the good do nothing.
I agree with you, but the evil is on both sides in this case. Calling just one side is doing exactly the same thing those journalists do.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 16•6 months ago
I disagree with your premise. I think most people on both sides condemn Hamas. The problem under discussion is the ongoing genocide of innocent Palestinian civilians.
You would be surprised about Hamas. But I was not talking about it, but about laterally paying attention only about one side needs and ignoring the other side, including acknowledging tragedy of lost civilians and who’s fault it is.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 13•6 months ago
Well you were saying both sides were evil. How are Palestinian civilians evil, in your mind?
How are Palestinian civilians evil, in your mind?
Obviously they are evil for complaining about having their land stolen for 80 years, for resenting having their olive groves burned down by settlers, by having their homes bulldozed, their roads blocked to prevent access to schools and hospitals. Their children thrown in prison for throwing rocks at tanks.
When they resist, the U.S. funded genocide they are obviously terrorists…
Where did I talk about Palestinian being evil? Hamas, yes (but I did not even talked about them), but Palestinians?
Sides? I would have hoped that Canadian newspapers are on the side of “facts”.
You can say one facts and omit others.
Western settler colonist media supporting Israeli settler colonist genocide is no surprise, they have been doing it for 80 years. And for hundreds of years before that when it was local genocide.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/15/war-on-terror-911-deaths-afghanistan-iraq/
Give it time? No, I think any military/tech advanced country would do the “retribution” as deterrent for that short lived celebration of terror act. The only thing that stopped massive scale wars between economic powers are that they do it in proxy wars and flex their muscle at the cost of people and lives that aren’t their own. Even if they are directly involved, see above, they aren’t shy away from just “use” their citizens as long as it achieve the political/military goals, while the arms dealers enjoy their record profits and funds worth them retiring for probably another couple thousand years for their offsprings. No matter how moral high ground people likes to pretend they are when they are not involved, we are not creature that thinks logically when things could have been prevented at much earlier stages.
The smart and logical flees and avoid physical and violent conflicts like war because there are no logic reasoning with it. Yes there is logic of how to defeat or kill enemies or drain their supply, economic etc as the people behind flexing their manipulation power, but there are no logic on how to prevent more killings as the war started. Cause those would needed to be done way before the war started.
The senseless death from any big scale conflict can be attributed back to mostly, guess who, yes, us everyday citizens. You gave those political figures power to decide when and how they send people to kill and die. From both side, regardless of the death tolls and how atrocious one side is killing another.
I am not even touch the topics why the hate or bigotry is in place so they hate each other already before the conflict started. I am just assuming that most won’t care or if you do care you already did the homework.