[The Shadow]

Apparently it does. According to FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) when Human Rights Watch released their report on the Hezbollah attack on Israeli targets during the 2006 war (8/29/2007 (http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/08/30/lebano16740.htm)), the New York Times ran an 800 word article with the headline, "Rights Group Accuses Hezbollah of Indiscriminate Attacks on Civilians in Israel War" and accompanied it with photos of frightened Israeli civilians. However when the same group released its report on Lebanese deaths attributed to indiscriminate Israeli attacks, while finding no evidence to support the Israeli claim that Hezbollah was firing from civilian areas, effectively using the Lebanese civilians as shields (9/6/2007 (http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/09/06/isrlpa16781.htm)) the times ran a 139 word article with no pictures and the rather simle headline of "Israel Criticized Over Lebanon Deaths". The times also failed to take note that while 43 of the 120 or so Israeli deaths were civilians, about 900 of the estimate 1,200 Lebanese deaths were civilians. As FAIR puts it, "It is difficult, then, to avoid the conclusion that Israeli lives are considered significantly more important by the Times than Lebanese lives."

My apologies for not linking to the NY Times articles but they require a subscription in order to read them.