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Eko

(10,255 posts)
25. Not sure Tablet is a good source of information.
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 05:51 PM
Oct 2024
Overall, we rate Tablet Magazine as right-center biased based on an editorial bias that moderately favors the pro-Israel nationalist right. We also rate them Mostly Factual in reporting rather than High due to the promotion of conspiracy theories despite a clean third-party fact check record
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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/tablet-magazine/
Tablet Mag is a news media source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Right.
Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Right display media bias in ways that moderately align with conservative, traditional, libertarian, or right-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Right bias is a moderately conservative rating on the political spectrum.

About Tablet Mag

According to its About page, "Tablet is a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. Launched in June 2009, it’s a project of the not-for-profit Nextbook Inc., which also produces the Jewish Encounters book series, edited by Jonathan Rosen. Our archive holds all the articles and features that originally appeared on the website Nextbook.org."
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/tablet-mag-media-bias


As for their numbers being correct historically.

Historically, the Gaza Health Ministry’s figures have been found largely accurate. News organizations, human rights groups, and international governments and bodies (including the United Nations) cite them in the moment; and human rights groups that have worked to verify the ministry’s data in previous conflicts have found it generally reliable. Vox reports these figures, as it reports the Israeli government’s stated death tolls.

Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch, which has been monitoring human rights abuses in Gaza for three decades, told the Guardian the group has “generally found the data that comes out of the ministry of health to be reliable.”

Historically — in conflicts in 2008, 2014, and 2021 — the health ministry’s fatality numbers closely matched death tolls resulting from independent research by United Nations humanitarian agencies.

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23940215/israel-palestine-gaza-hamas-death-toll-war-fatalities-verified-count-conflict

Prof Spagat has also looked back at previous conflicts, and found that health ministry figures in Gaza have held up under past scrutiny.

In an analysis of health ministry death figures from the Israel-Gaza conflict in 2014, in which Gaza was bombed, and a separate record of death figures from that same year collated by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, Prof Spagat found overall consistency in the reported figures.

The ministry of health said 2,310 Gazans had been killed in 2014, while B'Tselem counted 2,185 deaths. The UN said 2,251 Palestinians were killed, including 1,462 civilians and Israel's foreign ministry said the 2014 war killed 2,125 Palestinians.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67347201

You can use statistics to prove or disprove pretty much anything you want. But you can believe a statistics guy who writes for a right leaning Jewish mag who doesn't know anything about how the casualties are reported or the history behind them. Ill go by history.

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The same organization that reports the Hamas Gaza Government's casulty reports at 100% fact AZLD4Candidate Oct 2024 #1
Historically their numbers have proved accurate. Eko Oct 2024 #22
Lol, no they aren't NickB79 Oct 2024 #24
Not sure Tablet is a good source of information. Eko Oct 2024 #25
Vox has a left wing bias Mosby Oct 2024 #31
That was not "their own investigation" - your own source is quite clear about that muriel_volestrangler Oct 2024 #32
So you admit the BBC is biased? Mosby Oct 2024 #34
Your post title doesn't even deserve an answer. (nt) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2024 #35
That was not their own investigation, just read and follow the link. Eko Oct 2024 #37
ROFLMAO Israeli Oct 2024 #39
It's true. Mosby Oct 2024 #42
Nail on head Israeli Oct 2024 #38
Do you think your country should exist? Mosby Oct 2024 #41
3 of those were Israeli media sites and the last one,, well,,, Eko Oct 2024 #36
This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Oct 2024 #43
I guess Israel has the "right to defend herself" from the United Nations by gassing peacekeepers.. mountain grammy Oct 2024 #2
Those peacekeepers are doing a bang up job AZSkiffyGeek Oct 2024 #3
Oh ok. Then I guess it's ok to gas them mountain grammy Oct 2024 #4
Jury's out as to the origin of the rockets w/ gas. Igel Oct 2024 #6
You seem to be accusing Israel of the gassing, MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2024 #14
"It did not say who fired the shells or what sort of toxic substance it suspected." Beastly Boy Oct 2024 #9
The rules of engagement moniss Oct 2024 #5
Should Lebanon be kicked out of the UN? Mosby Oct 2024 #28
Hezbollah sent the rockets not moniss Oct 2024 #29
Hezbollah is part of the government of Lebanon Mosby Oct 2024 #30
Your seeming indication of some "shooting role" moniss Oct 2024 #33
Role of Peacekeepers? manicdem Oct 2024 #7
From Oct 8th to late September, Israel killed about 10 times as many in Lebanon as Hezbollah killed in Israel muriel_volestrangler Oct 2024 #8
Not for the lack of trying on Hezbollah's part... Beastly Boy Oct 2024 #10
I'm stating that Israel kills a fuck-ton of Lebanese muriel_volestrangler Oct 2024 #11
The UN did jack shit to protect the Lebanese, if you haven't noticed. Beastly Boy Oct 2024 #13
Yea, I mean what does the UN actually do there? manicdem Oct 2024 #19
How many were Hezbollah or militants? manicdem Oct 2024 #17
Or even under civilian buildings, like HAMAs did. MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2024 #18
How about restoring the Israeli government from Likud? onandup Oct 2024 #12
The only ones who can remove the Likud from the Govt. are the Israeli voters, MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2024 #15
It's been suggested Hezbollah be removed by force onandup Oct 2024 #20
LOL. MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2024 #21
.... MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2024 #16
Literally no Israeli government would ignore 8000+ rocket attacks in a year NickB79 Oct 2024 #23
The out-of-control bully/warmonger continues his rampage. brush Oct 2024 #26
Time to shut down all military aid to Israel. sinkingfeeling Oct 2024 #27
Official UNIFIL Statement on Merkava Tank Incident C0RI0LANUS Oct 2024 #40
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