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Palestine Media Watch

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “organization established in october 2000 that monitors the us mainstream media's coverage of the israeli-palest”. Today it says “organization established in october 2000 that monitored the u”.
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The opening as it read in 2020

Palestine Media Watch ( PMWATCH ) was an organization established in October 2000 that monitored the U.S. mainstream media's coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and mobilized against what it deemed to be anti-Palestinian or pro-Israel bias in the coverage of the conflict. The organization focused mainly on issuing letter-writing action calls and publishing reports analyzing coverage. According to the group's founder, Ahmed Bouzid, "There's a paradigm we're trying to change: that Israelis are defending themselves and the Palestinians are attacking, and when the Israelis do something it must be a mistake or an act of self-defense." The organization's website has not been active since about 2009. The organization was the subject of a PhD dissertation by Robert Lyle Handley from the University of Texas, Austin, titled, "Palestine Media Watch and the U.S. The University of Texas, Austin .

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In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “organization established in october 2000 that monitors the us mainstream media's coverage of the israeli-palest”. Today it says “organization established in october 2000 that monitored the u”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

organization established in october 2000 that monitors the us mainstream media's coverage of the israeli-palest

Now

organization established in october 2000 that monitored the u

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