Published 2025-06-24
Abstract
Personal and political biases are difficult to set aside in journalism, especially when reporting on international political conflicts, involving parties connected to the United States and its political allies. In this paper, I explored the importance of political allyship between the United States and other states to address how these relationships could impact the integrity and impartial nature of journalism. Based on the information provided in the literature review regarding the political history of journalism in the United States and how news outlets served as politicians’ mouthpieces for the general public, I have theorized that the United States’ relationship with other foreign states, and America’s involvement in foreign political affairs is likely to have a significant impact on both the quality and quantity of political news articles about violent conflicts and events. In order to examine the relationship between American foreign policy and impartial journalism, I have examined the prevalence of specific topics, and inclusion, as well as the language used in the headlines of articles that are marketed as an impartial, reliable source as they relate to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, following to spike in violence following October 7th, 2023, and the Ukrainian-Russian Conflicting following the February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Through this study and the use of case studies and literary analysis, my hypothesis regarding American foreign policy and allyship has a great impact on the quantity and quality of the events covered in the articles from the New York Times was supported by the results of the study.