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Keeping Score on the Media War

January 19th, 2009 by Syd Walker

Alison Weir is an extraordinary American woman.

Alison Weir: If Americans Knew

A journalist working mainly on local stories, she began to take a serious interest in the Palestine conflict around ten years ago.

Ms Weir traveled to Palestine during the second Intifada to see for herself what was going on. Then she returned home and compared US media coverage of the previous month to what she’d witnessed on the ground.

Her disgust at what she discovered prompted her to carry out detailed statistical comparisons of US media coverage of the Palestine/Israel conflict. The imbalance is stark. On US TV and in US newspapers, Palestinian deaths are ‘worth’ much, much less than Israeli deaths. The US media narrative is systematically, demonstrably and egregiously slanted towards Israel.

Many have known of this bias for years, but Alison Weir documented it – then put the material onto a must-see website If Americans Knew.

In the video Off the Charts (below) she talks about her personal journey in search of the truth – as well as the imbalance in media coverage that she discovered. The video is empowering as well as informative, because it shows how much one committed person can achieve in a few years. Highly recommended!

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Shelly T. writes:
January 19th, 20093:39 pmat

I love Alison Weir and her website… and she is someone I only recently “discovered” because she was interviewed on al Jazeera. If we could all write like crazy about this disparity and bias it might make a dent, especially with mainstream media currently going bankrupt. What really helps is letters to the editor of local newspapers,– imagine if we had letters published in every newspaper in America? I have two blogs where I write about this stuff, but my letter last week in the newspaper got 100,000 eyes on it which is much more than my website gets.
Please everyone write letters to the newspaper while you still can. That’s one thing they are still good for, their circulation numbers and the people they reach. It’s not just “preaching to the choir”. Weir does great work but we can all help her. Shelly T.

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- Syd Walker writes:
  January 20th, 20096:20 pmat
  
  Shelly, you make a very good point. Just because the mass media is biased, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t bother to try.
  
  A few years ago I was watching CNN… it might have been during the Iraq invasion in 2003. They invited viewers to email comments. I sent in something really rude, blasting them for disgusting Zionist bias. It was also quite short. An hour later, to my utter amazement, I heard Richard Quest read it out on air.
  
  Incidentally, your website Civilianism.com is excellent. I’ll add it to my blogroll. Well done! Syd Walker
  
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