Many people blame Israel poor media and claim the media, especially in the US is unbiased in presenting the Israeli story--NOT SO.The way the news is presented to impact each of us without us seeing it.
I was last week in Los Angeles and read the LATimes. big, important national newspaper.
Both my wife and I read seemingly a typical news from Israel/P written by a Palestinian correspondent.
We immediately noticed how he slide under your skin: every time he mentioned Israel he said: THE JEWISH STATE, right, nothing wrong? it is afterall the Jewish state, but the mind is already tune to this negative implication, by us and most others.

He wrote in the beginning that the son of a Hamas leader was killed in the Israeli attack. Both my wife and I independently thought at that stage that a innocent civilian kid was killed when his father was attacked. Later in the story he wrote that the son was 21 years old Hamas fighter who died in the fighting.

So, unless you are like my wife (which I trained to look for this type of skewed info) and myself, who was trained by seminars and observations for years to read the total article with clear eyes, you, yourself, your Jewish friends and most people will see what the writer calculated for you to see. You would not know how they twisted the story. They are masters in it!
I spent hours looking at analysis of the media distortion of the Hezbollah war. They compared many pictures, how they were doctored etc.
I doubt many people had the inclination or time to see it. THIS IS WHAT I MEAN MEDIA DISTORTION.

MOST PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THE TIME OR INCLINATION TO LOOK IN DETAILS.
We take a quick look and come to the conclusion our mind tells us to grasp by previous inclination.
Most do not know what they don't know!!!

I could give you many stories like that but this is enough.
Matania