Thomas L.
Thomas L. Friedman is a foreign affairs Opinion columnist for The New York Times, having joined the paper in 1981 and served as the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, and White House correspondent and economic correspondent in 1989. He has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work on international reporting from Lebanon and Israel, as well as commentary. Friedman is the author of several books including “From Beirut to Jerusalem”, which won the National Book Award in 1989. Born in Minneapolis, he received a B.A. in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975 and a master's in modern Middle East studies from Oxford in 1978.
88%
The Daily's Verdict
This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.
Bias
95%
Examples:
- By giving Hamas a pass, the protests have put the onus on Israel to such a degree that its very existence is a target for some students, while Hamas's murderous behavior is passed off as a praiseworthy adventure in decolonization.
- First, they are virtually all about stopping Israel's shameful behavior in killing so many Palestinian civilians in its pursuit of Hamas fighters, while giving a free pass to Hamas's shameful breaking of the cease-fire that existed on Oct. 7.
Conflicts of Interest
100%
Examples:
No current examples available.
Contradictions
0%
Examples:
- ][Hamas launched an invasion and murdered Israeli parents in front of their children, children in front of their parents, raped Israeli women and kidnapped or killed everyone they could get their hands on.][
Deceptions
75%
Examples:
- Again, you can be - and should be - appalled at Israel's response: bombing everything in its path in Gaza so disproportionately that thousands of children have been killed, maimed and orphaned. But if you refuse to acknowledge what Hamas did to trigger this - not to justify what Israel has done, but to explain how the Jewish state could inflict so much suffering on Palestinian men, women and children in reverse - you're just another partisan throwing another partisan log on the fire.
- First, they are virtually all about stopping Israel's shameful behavior in killing so many Palestinian civilians in its pursuit of Hamas fighters, while giving a free pass to Hamas' shameful breaking of the cease-fire that existed on Oct. 7.
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