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“The press has been gutted. The bureaus have shrunk, and into that vacuum have come ideological voices,” says Matti Friedman The post The ‘Tectonic Shift’ in Media That Changed Perceptions ...
Journalist Matti Friedman, on why Western media frequently frame the Israel/Hamas narrative as a good guy vs bad guy story.
As it happens, on October 7th, our producer Mitch Ginsburg was hiking across the Scottish Highlands with his buddy – author, journalist and friend of the show, Matti Friedman. This is their story.
At the rally outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, where thousands have turned out for a larger-than-usual protest, Canadian-born Israeli author and journalist Matti Friedman says ...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has the dubious honor of being the highest-profile conflict in the world, and the war now waging between Israel and Hamas means it is getting more headlines than ever ...
Friedman claims that the world is not responding to actual events in this country as they happen but to the way they are portrayed by the media.
After 30 Years in Israel, I See My Country Differently Inside the Israeli crack-up By Matti Friedman ...
Thomas Friedman and the Red Lines in Journalism on Israel and Palestine His column comparing Middle East nations to insects reveals how the New York Times publishes crimes against human cognition.
The debate sort of petered out in the early-1990s, when Israel itself began talking about a Palestinian state, and when right-wing groups then decided criticizing Israel was a mitzvah.
What happens when Israel’s lawbreakers become lawmakersHere is why Beita and Evyatar matter: Both the Israeli settlement movement and its Palestinian opponents see the conflict over this small ...
Pro-Palestinian protestors outside The New York Times building protest coverage of the Israel-Hamas War. (Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) JERUSALEM – It gives journalist Matti Friedman ...