Leaders of the radical Hamas movement, which controls the Palestinian cabinet, complain of an unpleasant experience every morning: scrutinising the Palestinian newspapers and the official Palestinian radio station to find that - despite their overwhelming electoral majority - the Hamas viewpoint is given short shrift.
So it was last weekend, when the al-Hayat al-Jadida daily newspaper reported on its front page the 'confessions' aired on Jordanian Television of three men the station identified as Hamas members involved in weapons smuggling and a plan to target Jordanian officials and tourists.
There's much at stake in the Jordanian accusations, which depict Hamas as a movement undermining the stability of other countries at a time when the Hamas-led government is battling for survival and recognition in the face of an international aid freeze that has left it unable to pay the salaries of 150,000 government workers. Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, doesn't have a track record of exporting its violent jihad, or 'sacred struggle', beyond the borders of Israel and the occupied territories. It has strongly denied the Jordanian claims. 'They are a lie no one can believe,' Sami Abu Zuhri, the Hamas spokesman told the Associated Press.
But such denials were nowhere to be found in al-Hayat al-Jadida, which ran an accompanying article on the presentation by Jordanian authorities of 'information and documentation' of Hamas weapons smuggling.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida is owned by the Palestine Investment Fund, which is in turn controlled by Hamas' rival, the moderate Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah movement. Another daily, al-Ayyam, is edited by Akram Haniya, an adviser to Mr Abbas. The third and largest daily, al-Quds, also generally gives more prominent coverage to Mr Abbas and Fatah than to the cabinet, independent analysts say.
'There is a sort of bias,' said Danny Rubinstein, veteran Palestinian affairs analyst for Israel's Haaretz newspaper. 'The media gives more space to Hamas than it did before the election, but not the amount they deserve as the elected majority.'