Palestine Media Watch

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This article is about the pro-Palestinian media watchdog. For the pro-Israel media watchdog, see Palestinian Media Watch.
Palestine Media Watch
URL http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/index.asp
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Available language(s) English
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Palestine Media Watch (PMWATCH) is an organization established in October 2000 that monitors the US mainstream media's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and mobilizes against what it deems to be anti-Palestinian or pro-Israeli bias in the coverage of the conflict. The organization focuses mainly on issuing letter-writing action calls and publishing reports analyzing coverage[1].

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[edit] Criticism of News Coverage

The following are the types of criticism Palestine Media Watch regularly lodges against mainstream news coverage of the conflict:

  • Rare mention of UN reports/findings/resolutions
  • Rare mention of Human Rights reports/findings/statements
  • Inconsistent and infrequent use of he terms "occupation/occupied"
  • Almost exclusive use of the terms "terror/terrorist" against Palestinians
  • Frequent use of the words "response/retaliation" to describe Israeli actions
  • Infrequent contextualization of Palestinian actions: e.g., "Palestinians launched a mortar attack after Israelis bulldozed a row of houses" vs routine contextualization of Israeli actions: e.g., "Israelis bulldozed a row of houses after Palestinians launched a mortar attack"
  • Imbalance in sourcing Palestinian officials and civilians vs. Israeli officials and civilians in favor of the Israelis
  • Imbalance in depicting personal human suffering of Palestinians vs. Israelis, in favor of the Israelis

[edit] Criticism of Opinion Coverage

  • Disproportionate allocation of op-ed space in favor of pro-Israel opinions.
  • Wider range of acceptable and printable opinions is provided to pro-Israel writers vs pro-Palestine writers

[edit] Criticism of Editorial Coverage

  • Rare mention in editorials of findings by human rights organizations
  • Rare mention in editorials of United Nations resolutions/findings

[edit] References

  1. ^ Commentary on Palestine Media Watch

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