Israel-Palestinian coverage is a matter of perception

Miami Herald Ombudsman

Transcribed from the clipping

"'The Herald is biased towards Jews,' Nidal Hussain, a local Palestinian leader, said in an interview this week... Further breaking down the 77 stories, I found that only three mentioned Palestinians alone. This is a very imprecise measure of what the stories were about, but it does reflect a general trend... According to the Association of Religion Data Archives, there were in 2000 an estimated 337,000 Jews in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, compared with 13,000 Muslims... The constant reporting from the Israeli vantage is unfortunate."

Context added by this archive

The second ombudsman column in this archive, and the only one that counts its own paper's stories.

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"Israel-Palestinian coverage is a matter of perception," The Miami Herald, 18 May 2008. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2008-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2008-003

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