1. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2007
   I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
2. Aljazeera - English home page
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   English-language site of the Arabic news network.
3. America’s last taboo
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2002
   The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
4. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
5. Control Room
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2004
   Shows the coverage of the 2003 Iraqi war from the perspective of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet.
6. Counterpunch
   Periodical profile
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
7. Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double Standards
   An Exchange With The BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2008
   The priorities of the news media mean that the more Palestinians are killed, the less importance their deaths have to news organisations. Conversely, the fewer Israelis killed the more seriousness their deaths are accorded.
8. Double Standards
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
9. Electronic Intifada
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. News, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
10. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
11. The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism, & The Gulf War
    Resource Type: Book
    The Gulf Within documents the experiences of Arab and Muslim Canadians during the Gulf War. It's about the subtle and not-so-subtle anger and distrust other Canadians and institutions demonstrated towards these groups.
12. Ha'aretz
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Israeli daily newspaper
13. International Middle East Media Center
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide English language media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
14. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
15. Israeli Deaths Matter More
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The reality is that by devoting disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths over Palestinian deaths, the BBC’s claims to “impartial” reporting are simply demolished. With great consistency, lives in the ‘Third World’ are presented as being of far less importance than those who are ‘like us’.
16. Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
17. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
    
18. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
19. Media bias on the Middle East
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Part of the Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database). Provides documents from all points on the ideological spectrum, both Zionist and anti-Zionist, along with background on everybody whose opinion you find here. Also lets you see what our sources say about each other.
20. Necessary Illusions 
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
21. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
22. Palestine Media Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
23. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
    
24. Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
25. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
26. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
    
27. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
28. Sources.com 
    Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students – and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
    Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
    Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
29. Telling It
    Women and Language Across Cutures
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
30. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
31. Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
32. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
33. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
34. Who Should Bomb Iran First?
    The Myth Of Left-Leaning Media Bias
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Mainstream media discussions of media balance are limited to a single question: Is the media too critical of powerful interests?

Experts on Media Coverage/Middle East in the Sources Directory

1. Electronic Intifada
2. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights