I can’t understand why Jews would want to avoid such revered news outlets like the NY Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, and CBS News. Nor MSNBC, LA Times, CNN, BBC, etc
The NY Times editorial board is pimping a “humanitarian pause“, which only helps Hamas. Here’s the Washington Post pimping the viewpoint from an Islamist: ‘I’m still alive. Gaza is no longer Gaza.’ How many of the news outlets immediately took the side of Hamas with the hospital bombing, not waiting for actual facts, because they wanted to Blame Israel and those Jews? How many have listened to hardcore Islamists and terrorist apologists? Imagine what would happen if a Republican was coming down on the side of Hamas: they’d be roasted. But, these same outlets refuse to condemn, and mostly ignore, the anti-Semetism coming from Democrats, especially ones like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and the rest of The Squad
Jewish Viewers Find a Refuge in Fox News
Ross Abramson, a software engineer and recent New York University graduate, had a fairly conventional news diet until recently. He regularly checked his phone for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. And as a Jew with an interest in Israel, he would browse a handful of outlets like The Times of Israel.
Then the brutal Hamas-led attack on Israel happened on Oct. 7, and Mr. Abramson found himself turning to an outlet he said he didn’t rely on much before: Fox News.
“Did I watch it religiously before? No,” he said, adding that he found Fox’s reporting and commentary on Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “less antagonistic for sure” than that of other news organizations. “You don’t feel as attacked,” Mr. Abramson said.
Fox News, long a preferred source of news for the right, has lately become an information refuge for some American Jews who believe that the mainstream media has been too hostile to Israel.
Well, gee wiz, I can’t imagine why Jews would feel that the leftist Credentialed Media would be hostile towards Israel and Jews.
It’s somewhat of an improbable alliance. Jews overwhelmingly identify as Democrats. And as the Republican Party came to embrace a more populist brand of politics that vilifies “globalist” corporate interests and wealthy liberal businessmen like George Soros — something many see as coded antisemitism — Fox News hosts and guests promoted those views.
Well, they weren’t paying attention the ever-growing Jew hatred from their fellow Democrats nor how Democrats were sympathizing with Islamic extremists.
But more than any of the other major cable news channels — and perhaps more than any other major American media outlet — Fox News has wrapped itself in the Israeli flag in the weeks since the Hamas attack. Its coverage tends to emphasize the radical and antisemitic elements of the pro-Palestinian opposition, particularly on college campuses, while playing down the civilian casualties from Israeli strikes.
Fox has always been pro-Israel and anti-jihadist. The NY Times just doesn’t seem to understand that they themselves have pushed Jews away.
Since September, Fox News’s audience has grown by a larger percentage than CNN and MSNBC in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington and Miami. And in the New York market — the nation’s largest — Fox has lately beaten its left-leaning rival, MSNBC, by a few percentage points. In September, Fox was drawing 16 percent fewer viewers than MSNBC in New York.
Why would they want to watch a network that bashes Israel and takes the side of the Palestinians who want to annihilate Israel and the Jews? Fox shows what the actual meaning and intent of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators is. Are you getting the intent of the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” from all those Credentialed Media sources? Are they showing you the Jew hatred? No? It won’t happen, but, perhaps outlets like the NY Times should look at how their coverage is biased against Israel and Jews, and pro-Islamist.
More: So, there was a big demonstration in D.C., and many other US cities
And the pro-Hamas forces vandalized the White House gate and wrote anti-Jew, anti-Israel, and took our call of Fuck Joe Biden. I’m sure the NY Times covered this, along with other outlets, right?
- NY Times: A Snapshot of Support for Palestinians Across America
- ABC News: Thousands of protesters gather in DC to call for a cease-fire in Gaza
- NPR: Tens of thousands gather for pro-Palestinian march in D.C. to demand Gaza cease-fire
- CNN: Pro-Palestine protests in DC and across the US call for a ceasefire
- UK Guardian: ‘No ceasefire, no votes’: tens of thousands attend pro-Palestinian rally in Washington DC
- USA Today: Demonstrators protest for Palestinian rights in Washington DC
- Washington Post: Protest marches from US to Berlin call for immediate halt to Israeli bombing of Gaza (they’re literally a D.C. paper, and their story, which I had to dig for, not on front page, is by the AP)
CBS News and NBC News? If they have something, it’s buried. Good on Insider for covering the vile calls for killing Jews and ending Israel (actually, no. When I flipped back to the article it was replaced). So, yeah, NY Times, it’s shocking that Jews are moving away from the mostly left leaning, and apparently pro-Hamas and anti-Jew, Credentialed Media and to those who are actually showing what’s going on.
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