Tag Archives: AP Media Bias

The AP anti-Israel slant

Posted on 12/21/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Here’s the story: Terrorists from Gaza have been firing rockets and mortars into Israel. They shot mortars on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. They shot mortars and a kassam on Monday. The kassam rocket landed near a kindergarten as children were … Continue reading →

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The whitewashing a of terrorist mass murderer

Posted on 11/10/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Arafat’s dead, but the tongue-baths and whitewashing live on. Wow, what a nifty-keen profile of the Yasser Arafat museum in the AP! Why, if you read this profile, you would hardly know that the biggest mass-murderer of Jews since Adolf … Continue reading →

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Compare and contrast: A tale of two “protests”

Posted on 10/27/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The AP has two ways of describing situations: One way when Israelis are involved, and another way for everyone else. Witness: Crowd harasses UN investigators in Beirut Oh, so a crowd yelled slogans or something at UN investigators? Maybe they … Continue reading →

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The AP whitewash of the week

Posted on 10/17/2010 by Meryl Yourish

I was under the weather the last 24 hours, which precluded me from posting on this little tidbit I found yesterday, on a story about new negotations for Gilad Shalit’s release: The militant group is leading the negotiations, demanding the … Continue reading →

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Friday briefs

Posted on 10/08/2010 by Meryl Yourish

That’s funny, I thought young American Jews were disconnecting from Israel: If the Peter Beinarts of the world are right, and young Jews are separating from Israel, how is it that Taglit (Birthright) Israel had to shut down registration in … Continue reading →

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Your daily dose of anti-Israel bias

Posted on 10/05/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Get a load of this one from the AP. They’re not even trying to hide the anti-Israel editorializing anymore. Arsonists torched a mosque in a West Bank village Monday, scrawling “revenge” on a wall in Hebrew and charring copies of … Continue reading →

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The Netanyahu narrative: He doesn’t really want peace

Posted on 09/03/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The anti-Israel (and anti-Bibi) narrative continues. In this AP peace processs analysis, the writer reports about critics on “both sides,” and yet, it is Netanyahu who is slammed throughout. Witness: Analysts on both sides questioned the ability and desire of … Continue reading →

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The subtle anti-Israel bias of the mainstream media

Posted on 08/27/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Check out this description in an AP article about a 3,500-year-old Egyptian trading post. See if you can detect the incredibly subtle anti-Israel bias: The settlement sheds light on ancient Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period (1600-1569 B.C.), when the Egyptian pharaohs … Continue reading →

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The evolution of the AP Israel bias: Updates

Posted on 08/23/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Sunday morning, the AP released an article about the upcoming peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, and updated it throughout the day. The first version bore a timestamp at My Way News of 6:49 a.m. Eastern Time. The second … Continue reading →

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The AP: Back to its normal anti-Israel bias

Posted on 08/10/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The AP bias returns: In this article about Lebanon attempting to “reassure” Congress that Hezbullah has nothing at all to do with its army, the AP describes the Lebanese ambush on the IDF as follows: The Congressman Berman said his … Continue reading →

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The AP: Abbas’ Propagandists

Posted on 07/25/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Someday, the AP might actually present a thorougly unbiased article on Israel and the Palestinians, but on that day, I suspect the Moshiach will have arrived. Let’s take the current article describing the continued Palestinian refusal for direct negotiations with … Continue reading →

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The anti-Israel media double standard

Posted on 07/10/2010 by Meryl Yourish

A few days ago, Israel released formerly classified photos that detailed Hezbollah weapons caches and soldiers nestled deeply within southern Lebanese civilian villages and towns. The world media dutifully passed along the information just as eagerly as they passed along … Continue reading →

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My snarky briefs, not yours

Posted on 06/23/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Biased AP headline of the month: Parents say Israel abandoned son held in Gaza. Apparently, the headline was too long. So instead of writing, say, “Parents say Israel abandoned soldier abducted by Hamas,” we have the pap above, which does … Continue reading →

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The media anti-Israel narrative strikes again

Posted on 06/22/2010 by Meryl Yourish

There’s a new AP boilerplate on the Mavi Marmara incident. It used to be two-sided. At least, in some stories, the AP put the fact that Israeli commandos were attacked halfway down the story, like this: Israel has sought to … Continue reading →

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Fixing the narrative, one letter at a time

Posted on 04/01/2010 by Meryl Yourish

In the last week or so, I wrote a letter to the AP complaining about their one-sided version of the history of Hebron, which had a thriving Jewish community until the massacre of 1929, after which the British allowed Muslims … Continue reading →

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Checkpoint “misery” exaggerated by the AP

Posted on 02/21/2010 by Meryl Yourish

This get-out-your-hankie story is the latest profile by the AP of the horrors the Palestinians have to go through—all, of course, caused by Israel. This one is an AP correspondent who spent a week (five days, actually) going through the … Continue reading →

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A pro-Israel AP spin

Posted on 01/03/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Since I have written probably hundreds of posts about the anti-Israel AP spin of articles reporting on events in Israel, here’s one that’s a reverse spin: One that actually, accurately reflects the symbolism of the Neturei Karta nutjobs spending Shabbat … Continue reading →

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The AP spin: Hamas calls for destruction of Israel are “suggestions”

Posted on 12/14/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Really, you just can’t make this stuff up. Buried deep inside the whitewashed AP version of Hamas’ anniversary festivities in Gaza is this nugged of wisdom from the AP, which purports to show the moderation of the terrorist group even … Continue reading →

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This is why nobody believes the MSM

Posted on 08/11/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Oh, please. Is there anyone out there with a brain who believes for a second that anyone other than thoroughly-vetted Obama plants will be allowed at this town hall meeting? Obama braces for ‘vigorous’ town hall health talk A day … Continue reading →

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Monday SNB

Posted on 08/10/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Funny how the AP keeps on missing these tidbits: Fatah has approved adding “the right to resist occupation in all its forms” to its new platform. (This is on top of insising that all of Jerusalem is theirs.) They further … Continue reading →

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