Measuring Bias in Israel-Palestine Coverage, and Mehdi Hasan's Approach to Covering the Region
On the Media
WNYC Studios
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🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
A Palestinian-American college student was shot in Vermont last fall. On this week’s On the Media, he reflects on the explosive media attention he’s received. Plus, what the data says about allegations of biased media coverage of Israel and Palestine, and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan explains his approach to covering the war.
1. Suzanne Gaber [@SuzanneGaber], producer at Notes from America, speaks with Hisham Awartani, a Palestinian-American college student, about the explosive media attention he received after he was shot in Vermont last fall. Listen.
2. William Youmans [@wyoumans], professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, and Mona Chalabi [@MonaChalabi], data journalist and illustrator, on the allegations of biased media coverage about Israel and Palestine and what data reveals. Listen.
3. Mehdi Hasan [@mehdirhasan], former MSNBC host and CEO of the new media company Zeteo, on his approach to covering Gaza, and his goal of making his audience care about news beyond the borders of the US. Listen.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't like seeing my name plastered everywhere but I condone it it sucks to say but like people here |
| 0:06.6 | find it hard to empathize with people in Gaza then they would meet. |
| 0:10.0 | When a Palestinian college student was shot in Vermont, he became a media focal point. |
| 0:15.8 | From W NYC in New York, this is on the media. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Michael Lohanger. |
| 0:20.3 | When it comes to coverage of Israel and Palestine, cries of media bias come from all sides. |
| 0:26.4 | But what do the data say? |
| 0:28.0 | The issue here is disproportionality, right? |
| 0:31.0 | Israelis were far more likely to be described as murdered, massacred, slaughtered than Palestinians. |
| 0:37.5 | Plus, Medi Hassan reflects on what it was like covering the region from the anchor's chair. |
| 0:42.4 | My position is this is what I want to do. |
| 0:44.8 | To hell with everyone else. |
| 0:46.2 | Is the result of that that my shows seem to be a corrective |
| 0:49.7 | to other shows in the media landscape may be. |
| 0:53.3 | It's all coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Brooke Gladstone is out this week. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm Michael Lohanger. |
| 1:09.8 | On Monday, President Joe Biden took questions about Gaza while licking an ice cream cone with late night host Seth Myers. |
| 1:17.0 | My National Security Advisor tells me that we're close. We're close. It's not done yet. |
| 1:22.0 | My hope is by next Monday we'll have a ceasefire. |
| 1:26.0 | Shame on me by the way for forgetting the first rule of comedy. When the Middle East comes up, |
| 1:30.3 | put your ice cream cone down. |
| 1:33.0 | But then on Thursday, |
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