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On the Media

Measuring Bias in Israel-Palestine Coverage, and Mehdi Hasan's Approach to Covering the Region

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mounting allegations of biased media coverage of Israel and Palestine; former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on his approach to covering Gaza.

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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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