Friedman shows his own biases in this piece. I don't remember the media  reporting Hamas' casualty figures as fact; I remember them citing casualty figures from several sources, without vouching for the accuracy of any of them. Friedman complains that the media portrayed the Gaza war as an "onslaught against innocent people". Well, the media reported that a great number of noncombatants were killed--Friedman doesn't seem to dispute that--and the media noted evidence that some Israeli attacks may not have violated the laws of war. I'd call that honest reporting. Friedman doesn't offer a reason for doubting the reports of Human Rights Watch, apart from his unsupported assertion that they are advocates for the Palestinians.

I can offer Friedman one example of pro-Israel bias in the media: CNN's 2004 retrospective on Yasir Arafat in their People in the News segment. The report said that "Egypt went to war with Israel" in 1956--when Israel, Britain, and France attacked Egypt. They said that Begin's Lebanon war was started by the PLO(come on) and trotted out the old refrain that the Six Day War was "preemptive"(tendentious at the least).