The mainstream media bias as against Israel was glaring, and harmful in fueling pro-Hamas lobbies and antisemitism. Yale Professor Edieal J. Pinker conducted an academic study of the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war on Hamas and found it guilty of pro-Hamas bias.
Confirming what everybody with a brain already knew:
Yale Study: New York Times Coverage of War in Israel Has Been Pro-Hamas https://t.co/NmoEbjCkE8— Chaskel Bennett (@ChaskelBennett) February 19, 2025
The study was published by the Yale School of Management, and is titled “An Analysis of the New York Times Coverage of the War Between Israel and Hamas.”
Although Pinker’s findings were obvious to any reasoning person with a sense of justice and some knowledge of the history of the region, having Pinker’s work officially published by what is still a top-ranking university has particular significance these days in America, which is just waking up from a woke nightmare following November elections.
Activist journalism is not journalism at all. Under leftist leadership everywhere, the mainstream media mutated into state media. There’s a reason why people have increasingly turned to social media for news. During the Biden days, crackdowns on the freedom of expression were also destroying social media platforms, as free society was continuously being eroded. It is no wonder that the leftist media targeted the only democracy in the Middle East.
It’s refreshing to see that the freedom of expression is still alive and permitted at Yale.
“Yale Study: New York Times Coverage of War in Israel Has Been Pro-Hamas,” by Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart, February 19, 2025:
A new academic study of New York Times coverage of the war in Israel launched by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, published by a professor at Yale University has concluded that the newspaper is guilty of pro-Hamas bias.
The study was published by Edieal J. Pinker of the Yale School of Management, and is titled “An Analysis of the New York Times Coverage of the War Between Israel and Hamas.” The abstract says (original emphasis):
I conduct a quantitative analysis of the text of 1,561 New York Times articles published from October 7, 2023 to June 7, 2024 that reference both “Israel” and “Gaza” to assess whether there are imbalances in the coverage that have a potential to influence readers opinions about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in a systematic way. I find that there is a dominant narrative of the war that contextualizes many of the articles. In this narrative, Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, 2023, killing 1200 Israelis, and Israel’s military response has killed X thousand Palestinians with X increasing over time. Little mention is made of Israeli casualties post-October 7 or of Palestinian acts of violence post-October 7, even as Israel and Hamas were locked in intensive combat over the eight months of the study period. In fact, “Israel” is mentioned more than three times as often as “Hamas”. Personal stories of Palestinian or Lebanese suffering appear an average of two out of every three days while it is common to go a week at a time without a single mention of IDF deaths even when such deaths were frequent. I argue that the net result of these imbalances and others is to create a depiction of events that is imbalanced toward creating sympathy for the Palestinian side, places most of the agency in the hands of Israel, is often at odds with actual events, and fails to give readers an understanding of how Israelis are experiencing the war.
The Jerusalem Post adds:
Pinker’s study dismisses the argument that the reason “Israel” appears more is because the Jewish State has “more independence than the Palestinians and thus will have more freedom of action.”
If this were to be the case, he argued, there would be less of an imbalance in the ratio of mentions of Hezbollah and Iran. However, the data indicated the imbalance was the same….
RightStuff says
So what’s new? They have supported our enemies forever.
Billy says
The worthless New York Times promotes Islam and its Muslims against America and Israel to help Democrats and Muslims gain more power and control.
Islam and its Muslims fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners. Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist, Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah. Under Islamic Law, Muslims are required to terrorize Non-Muslims because it is a Crime against Allah to neglect this Muslim DUTY; Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:29; Muslim Law Manual – “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15 and more).
somehistory says
Kudos to the professor. Truth, as John Denver sang, “is hard to come by.” Especially these days when so many are on the side of evil.
As a general rule, I read articles from many sources….ones I once trusted to be fair and truthful, and new ones on the world stage. What the professor wrote is true of many of the news media….and one reason, I believe, is because so many of them have mozlums on the payroll.
And if not mozlums, people who *think* like mozlums….that certain others are deserving of scorn, deserving of bad things happening to them, and even deserving of torture, rape and death.
There is “good” and there is “evil.” And Isaiah wrote thousands of years ago, that some would be “putting evil for good, bitter for sweet and darkness for light.”
The NYT seems to be in that category. “Woe to those,” Isaiah wrote.
Taffy says
And in other breaking news: Yale Professor Edieal J. Pinker had announced the results of his new study that water is wet!
skeptiker says
Die Linken und ihre Muslimfreunde… Ein Bündnis aus Liebe, vereint im globalen Kampf gegen die Ungläubigen. Die Frage ist: wer hier wessen Nützlicher Idiot ist.
James Lincoln says
The New York Times:
The “go-to” newspaper for leftists who believe that they are part of the intelligentsia.