Posted on Sat, March 28, 2015 at 14:31 pm CET
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A review of June to December 2014 coverage of the Israeli-Arab conflict on Irish television – Part One: Introduction, summary and conclusion

Irish media and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict… Read more

Topics: Ireland • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Media Bias • Rob Harris 
Posted on Fri, May 4, 2012 at 23:58 pm CEST
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New York Times coverage of Israel: What Comes After Ridiculously Biased?

With the arrival of Jodi Rudoren as correspondent, New York Times coverage of Israel and related issues has now gone to a new level of ridiculous bias… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Media Bias • Palestinian Terrorism • Pro-Palestinianism 
Posted on Mon, October 24, 2011 at 01:56 am CEST
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The Muhammad al-Dura Hoax and Other Myths Revived

On September 30, 2000, state-owned France 2 Television broadcast a news report, filmed by a Palestinian cameraman, of the fatal shooting of a… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Media Bias • Pro-Palestinianism 
Posted on Sat, July 9, 2011 at 01:45 am CEST
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The Flytilla Farce And The International Campaign For Repressive Dictatorship and Against Israel

After the failure of the Gaza flotilla, Western leftists and their Arab, often Islamist, allies took up a new way to harass Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Pro-Palestinianism 
Posted on Tue, June 28, 2011 at 00:28 am CEST
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NY Times “Scoop”: Israel Claims Media Coverage is Unfair

Sometimes when one of the better reporters around tries to be fair the result shows up the low quality of Middle East coverage generally… Continue reading

Topics: Gaza Flotillas and Convoys • Israel • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Media Bias 
Posted on Thu, June 9, 2011 at 01:59 am CEST
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What I Have Learned In My Long Visit to America

What’s most scary in America today may be the financial deficit and it may be government policies, but for me the scariest thing is… Continue reading

Topics: The Media • United States of America • Western Culture 
Posted on Tue, June 7, 2011 at 22:16 pm CEST
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Above the Threshold, Below the Belt: the Video Campaign Against the MHP

An internet website began broadcasting secretly-recorded videos of six members of the Turkish MHP engaging in extramarital sexual relations… Continue reading

Topics: Ergenekon • The Media • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, April 12, 2011 at 17:13 pm CEST
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The Fading Masquerade: Ergenekon and the Politics of Justice in Turkey

On the afternoon of March 30, 2011, Zekeriya Öz, the chief prosecutor in the controversial Ergenekon investigation, was abruptly… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Ergenekon • Islamism • The Media • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, April 11, 2011 at 18:54 pm CEST
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What Country in the World Has the Most Journalists Imprisoned?

What country in the world has the most journalists imprisoned? The answer might surprise you. According to a recent study… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Ergenekon • Human Rights • Neo-Ottomanism • The Media • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, April 4, 2011 at 19:09 pm CEST
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Why Contemporary Media Is So Bad

A reader asks me: But why is media reporting so bad (obviously with many honorable exceptions). I first wrote on this topic… Continue reading

Topics: Media Bias • Miscellaneous • Multiculturalism • The Media • United States of America 
Posted on Mon, March 21, 2011 at 01:00 am CET
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Much Mass Media Coverage of Israel-Palestinian Issues Is Propaganda, Not Journalism

So constant are the lies told in mass media coverage of Israel-Palestinian issues that it is hardly worthwhile to critique individual articles… Continue reading

Topics: Fatah • Gaza and Westbank • Global Jihad • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Media Bias • The Media 
Posted on Fri, March 4, 2011 at 19:16 pm CET
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WikiLeaks: Al-Jazeera Changed Coverage to Suit Qatari Foreign Policy

Qatar is using the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera as a bargaining chip in foreign policy negotiations by adapting its coverage to suit other foreign… Continue reading

Topics: Qatar • The Media • United States of America • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Sun, February 27, 2011 at 15:08 pm CET
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Israel-Bashing: The Al-Jazeera Mirror

American journalists on the ground in the Mid-East these past few weeks, elbow-to-elbow with al-Jazeera reporters like never before… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Media Bias 
Posted on Mon, December 20, 2010 at 01:45 am CET
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Iran Arrests Reformist Journalists

Seven reformist journalists were arrested in Iran over the past week. Earlier this week, internal security forces raided the residence of Reyhaneh Tabataba’i, a journalist working for the reformist daily Sharq, and… Continue reading

Topics: Human Rights • International Law • Iran • Shi'ism • The Media