Coverage from the first six weeks of the war paints a bleak picture of the Palestinian side, according to the analysis, one that stands to make humanizing Palestinians — and therefore arousing U.S. sympathies — more difficult. To obtain this data, we searched for all articles that contained relevant words (such as “Palestinian,” “Gaza,” “Israeli,” etc.) on the New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times. We then parsed through every sentence in each article and tallied the count of certain terms. For this analysis, we omitted all editorial pieces and letters to the editor. The basic data set is available here, and a full data set can be obtained by emailing ottoali99@gmail.com.
gaza-media-bias-all-sentences-with-massacre-horrific-or-slaughter.csv - All sentences in which the words horrific, slaughter and/or massacre have been used in relation to Palestinians or Israelis . Please note that for all terms, instances in which the term has been printed in quotes have been removed from the published summary statistics but not from this raw data.
gaza-media-bias-headlines-of-all-relevant-articles-surveyed.csv - Headlines of all relevant articles surveyed for this research.
gaza-media-bias-summary-statistics-of-terms-mentioned.csv - Summary statistics of terms mentioned in the article.