LA Times surprised to find Israeli media favoring its own country

There’s no visceral wartime imagery; details on injured Israeli soldiers are handled delicately. Bloody scenes such as the carnage after Tuesday’s shelling of a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip appear only in snippets, and often in the context of analysis as to how the world will react.

There is, however, round-the-clock coverage of the Israeli south, where rockets fired by Gazan militants have killed three Israeli civilians and injured dozens since the conflict began Dec. 27.