guess you're driving at the Guardian's traditional anti-Israel bias*, but

I think it's a general thing across the media, based on the inaccessibility of IS held territory.

Plenty of journos can access Gaza (facilitated by Hamas or the IDF, as appropriate) so you can get lots of good quality media soundbites and footage to satisfy the 24hr news cycle.

Northern Iraq, less so. Presumably 'cos your typical IS jihadi is more likely to chop a Western journo's head off than to pose for the camera. Less journos on the ground = less column inches in the papers.

(*which to be fair is probably more evident in the comments sections than the articles themselves)

Posted By: CWC on August 12th 2014 at 23:37:05

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Been on the grauniad website, bit bizarre that they don't report anything about ISIS (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Aug 12, 22:14:21
- Elaborate? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Aug 12, 22:41:13
  - Just seems odd (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Aug 12, 22:51:01
    - guess you're driving at the Guardian's traditional anti-Israel bias*, but (General Chat) - CWC, Aug 12, 23:37:05
    - Apart from the stories that do, of course... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Aug 12, 23:01:04
- .? (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 12, 22:20:52
  - Oh come on how many of those talk about the atrocities going on, when the paper is filled (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Aug 12, 22:45:05
    - here's a couple (General Chat) - matt in london, Aug 12, 22:58:30
  - (That's just a quick look at some of today's stories) (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 12, 22:21:13
    - they've also got a whole section on ISIS (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Aug 12, 22:39:11

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