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Source: http://blog.camera.org/archives/2012/05/post_86.html
By the Numbers: The New York Times' Palestinian Prisoner Article
(CAMERA) The New York Times published a report by its new Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren on May 3 regarding Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike. Number of quoted words by Palestinian supporters of Palestinian prisoners: 269. Number of words explaining the Israeli rationale behind administrative detention: 0. Number of paragraphs before Rudoren gets around to letting readers know that the stars of her article are members of Islamic Jihad: 14. Countries and groups that list Islamic Jihad as a terrorist organization: U.S., Canada, EU, UK and Australia. Number of people murdered by Islamic Jihad: Hundreds. Number of rockets fired at Israeli cities and towns by Islamic Jihad: Hundreds. Number of references in the article to those attacks: 0.