Israel war: What is liberal media’s excuse for botching the hospital story?
Zachary Faria
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Liberal media and the unofficial House “Hamas Caucus” continue to be upset at Jews for existing in the Middle East, and their willingness to embrace and peddle terrorist propaganda means you should stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.
When the Gaza Health Ministry claimed that an Israeli air strike destroyed a hospital and killed 500 people, there was no moment of doubt or hesitancy from liberal media. The New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, BBC, and Los Angeles Times (among others) repeated that talking point uncritically. They laid the blame, and the burden of proof, on Israel without a second thought.
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As it turns out, that reckless decision was wrong. All preliminary evidence, including from U.S. intelligence officials, indicates that the blast was the result of a misfired rocket from Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The blast was also on a parking lot, not a hospital, and it almost certainly did not kill 500 people. Every detail was almost certainly wrong, so why did those media outlets run with it in the first place with no effort to corroborate any of the details?
The best-case scenario here is that these outlets assumed that the health ministry, which is run by the very same Hamas terrorists who just raped, kidnapped, and slaughtered Israeli civilians, would never dare lie to them. Journalists at those outlets treated the antisemitic animals that make up Hamas as trustworthy sources and then raced to put out stories quickly without checking any facts. Again, that is the best-case scenario.
Now, consider that the New York Times used a picture of an unrelated destroyed building to accompany its headline blaming Israel for the blast. Or that the Associated Press has a long, cozy history with Hamas, including allegedly sharing an office building in Gaza with the group, and recently had to suspend one of its pro-Hamas (read: pro-terrorist) reporters in Gaza for his reaction to the Hamas slaughter of innocent Israelis.
Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) embraced Hamas’s lies about the hospital attack because they are hateful antisemites. That one is easy. But how could so many media outlets who whine about “disinformation” and are presumably focused on accuracy botch a story like this so badly based on nothing but the word of the inhuman terrorists who started this conflict?
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Whatever you think the answer is, it is clear that these media outlets do not deserve the benefit of the doubt. Their corrections are muted, if they are even acknowledged at all, and there has been no announcement of anyone being fired for what should be a fireable offense. This wasn’t an innocent mistake or a typo. This was a conscious decision to parrot terrorist talking points and present it as news.
At best, their standard for “journalism” is in the gutter, in which case they deserve your utter contempt for posturing as your moral superiors on “disinformation.” Given the yearslong media crusade to defend or “contextualize” Palestinian terrorism against Jews, you should not be expected to assume that the best-case scenario is the only accurate one here.