Disputing some of the mainstream western media’s reportage from Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war, N. Ram, Director, The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited, on Sunday said that they were “censored” and “being shamefully used without vetting by their media organisations”.
Some of those who reported for western media organisations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times were “embedded in the Israeli defence forces”, Mr. Ram said, citing a recent content analysis by The Intercept, which said that their coverage heavily favoured Israel.
Speaking at a session on ‘Israel’s War on Gaza and the Palestine Problem: Role of Media in Building the Narrative’, during a colloquium organised by the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ), Mr. Ram referred to reports that over 100 journalists had been killed while covering Gaza, of whom an overwhelming majority were Arab and not western journalists.
