In other words, the Times reported Israeli deaths at a rate approximately three times greater than Palestinian deaths.
During this period over three times more Palestinians were being killed than Israelis.
Overall, we found that in every single category Times coverage reported Israeli deaths at rates three or more times greater than Palestinian deaths.
Such patterns of distortion gave readers the impression that equal numbers of people on both sides were being killed — or that more Israelis were being killed — when the reality is that Palestinians have always been killed in far greater numbers. In particular, we found that Times stories so often repeated reports of Israeli children's deaths that in some periods they were reporting on Israeli deaths at a rate of 400 percent.
In contrast, the majority of Palestinian deaths — particularly children's deaths — were never reported by the Times at all.
According to Israeli human rights groups and others who assiduously gather data on all children killed in the conflict, at least 82 Palestinian children were killed before any Israeli children were killed — and the largest single cause of these Palestinian children's deaths was "gunfire to the head." Yet, almost no one is aware of this, since Times coverage consistently omitted or minimized coverage of these Palestinian deaths.
In other words, we found that New York Times coverage of Israel-Palestine exhibited highly disturbing patterns of bias.
To make matters worse, since the Times is often considered "the newspaper of record," with hundreds of newspapers subscribing to the New York Times News Service, the paper's distortions become replicated throughout the country.
Unintentionally, editors around the country are reporting this issue with a distortion based on ethnicity that most would oppose, if they were aware that they were doing it.
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