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“They gave me this whole spiel about how ‘there’s before Oct. 7 & there’s after Oct. 7.’ That was my breaking point.” @laubast.bsky.social's award-winning investigation exposed pro-Israel bias at U.S. newsrooms & their incapacitation of Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim journalists reporting the truth.

prismreports.orgJournalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contemptA Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023

“I was just sitting there with my hands tied.” The journalists said that they were shut out of covering Israel’s genocide in Gaza, while white, Jewish, or Israeli journalists took the lead. They witnessed Palestinian voices & stories being quashed, as Zionist groups unleashed harassment campaigns.

When U.S. newsrooms may try to wipe their conscience clean by publishing a story every now & then about the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, Albast's investigation preserves an accurate record of how coverage of Palestine is shaped within U.S. newsrooms. Read her AMEJA award-winning reporting:

prismreports.orgJournalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contemptA Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023

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