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A series of studies have been published in recent weeks analyzing coverage of the war in Gaza, and the results reveal an overwhelming bias against Palestinians.
In the first six weeks of the war, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times used the terms "slaughter" and "massacre" 60 times more frequently in reference to Israelis than Palestinians, despite Palestinian deaths outnumbering those of Israelis by an order of magnitude.
CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News mentioned Israeli deaths four times as often as Palestinians during roughly the same time frame.
And on the four major Sunday morning TV talk shows, Israeli guests outnumbered Palestinians 10 to 1.
In the words of Mehdi Hasan — the former MSNBC journalist whose show was canceled after he committed the unpardonable sin of asking tough questions of a senior Israeli government official — "What else do you call that other than the deliberate dehumanization of the Palestinian people?"
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