Media representation of the Arab-Israeli war sidelined Arab self-representation

Evidence

In 1973, during the anxious days of the October Arab-Israeli War, the New York Times Magazine commissioned two articles, one representing the Israeli and one the Arab side of the conflict. The Israeli side was presented by an Israeli lawyer; the Arab side, by an American former ambassador to an Arab country who had no formal training in Oriental studies. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 743

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this 1973 example compare to how Middle East conflicts are framed in contemporary media coverage?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 743
• XREF: connects to: Algeria’s anti-Israel confrontation is a media construct for domestic consumption — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 83; Western media coverage structurally selected which Egyptian revolutionaries got heard — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 230