The impartiality of the American press in reporting news on the Arab-Israel conflict was established through a survey conducted among 132 American daily newspapers with a circulation of 100,000 or more, it is reported in the current issue of Editor and Publisher, a newspaper trade weekly.
The survey was conducted by Dr. Laurence R. Campbell, dean of the Florida State School of Journalism. The majority of the newspapers replied that news on the Arab Israel situation appears regularly in their columns and is being examined in the same way as local police news, or state news, or Washington news, regardless of the position taken on the editorial page. Dr. Campbell, who visited the Middle East last year, comes to the conclusion that the Arab claim that the American press is partial towards Israel is nothing but a “fabrication of their own false prophets.”
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