A recent study by a Yale professor has shown that The New York Times Gaza war coverage projected sympathy toward the Palestinians and lessoned Hamas responsibility rather than give a balanced perspective on the conflict, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday.
Edieal J. Pinker, professor of operations research at the Yale School of Management conducted his study by reviewing 1,561 Times articles published from the first day of the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, until June 7, 2024. He then referenced both “Israel” and “Gaza” to determine the coverage that may have skewed readers’ perception by “diminishing Hamas’ responsibility for their situation and the continuation of the war.” Pinker noted that he “does not claim the NY Times is biased” in it’s reporting and leaves those conclusions to the reader.
“I find that there is a dominant narrative of the war that contextualizes many of the articles,” Pinker wrote. “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.”
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