NY Times Headline Bias Again on Display
Eylon A. Levy flagged this egregiously skewed New York Times headline yesterday, tweeting:
Here’s a news flash for those who rely on Timesheadlines to keep current: Palestinians carried out three separate terror attacks against Israelis yesterday, stabbings and a car ramming, killing 21-year-old Hadar Buchris in the third attack. The “three Palestinians killed,” as The Times headline puts it, were the three assailants. The grossly distorted Times headline gives no indication that the three Palestinian were the perpetrators, not victims, of attacks.
Later yesterday the headline was substantially improved:
This is not the first time in recent months that a Times headline falsely depicted Palestinian attackers as victims.
Last April, when two Palestinians attacked policeman with knifes, the headline was:
And, a year ago, when a Palestinian stabbed Israeli soldier Almog Shiloni to death in a Tel Aviv train station, Times headline writers replaced the original straightforward, accurate headline (“Palestinian Stabs Israeli Soldier at Tel Aviv Train Station”) with an obtuse headline which whitewashed Palestinian responsibility (“Palestinians Are Suspected As Two Israelis Die in Knife Attacks”).
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