09July2014
Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
Channel 4's Alex Thomson offered a rare glimmer of dissent:
'Curious to watch UK media living down to the Palestinian claim that 1 Israeli life is worth 1000 Palestinian lives.'
Major br...
By David Edwards
Writing for the Washington Post in June, Paul Farhi wondered if, in breaking the story of the US National Security Agency's spying programme, the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald had 'become somet...