http://twitchy.com/dougp/2023/11/13/wapo-still-happy-to-pass-along-gaza-reports-numbers-n2389749
Last month, citing reports from the Gaza Health Ministry, the media reported that an Israeli airstrike at a Gaza hospital killed several hundred people. Those reports quickly circulated and culminated in protests around the world. The problem was that the reports weren't accurate. The explosion was in a parking lot near a hospital and it was from a rocket fired from inside Gaza.
In other words, claims from the Gaza Health Ministry (Hamas basically) are propaganda and not reliable reports, but the Washington Post, New York Times, Associated Press and others ran with it anyway because it feeds a narrative.
Has the media stopped using Gaza-based sources? Of course not!
Here's what the Washington Post is reporting today, and guess the source:
Hannah Allam (@HannahAllam) ~ Gaza reports more than 11,100 killed. That’s one out of every 200 people. They include doctors, journalists, professors and poets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/gaza-rising-death-toll-civilians/?itid=sr_1
Yeah ... even if true, which is HIGHLY doubtful ... these people are either terrorists posing as doctors, journalists, professors, and poets, or terrorists hiding behind doctors, journalists, professors, and poets.
Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) ~ Hamas reports ...
Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) ~ Gaza is a place, it can’t report. Kind of like WaPo can’t report ...
Richard - Thought Criminal (@nowiknowmyabcs) ~ “Gaza reports.” This is like saying “Central Park reports” or “Interstate 95 reports.” What you really mean is “The terrorist government of Hamas reports.”
Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) ~ Tip: if you want to appeal to people’s sympathies you should remove “journalists.”
Replace "journalists" with "propagandists" for much greater accuracy.
One thing's for sure:
Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) ~ They keep doing it. They don't care.
They most certainly don't -- and then are completely baffled why trust in the media went down the drain a long time ago.
The WaPo is a rag written by liars. They lie ... it's what they do.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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