The New York Times ran with Hamas' narrative that Israel bombed a Gaza City hospital, forcing the publication to apologize for giving readers an 'incorrect impression.'
By now, everyone knows that Israel had nothing to do with the tragic explosion outside a Gaza City hospital last week. The evidence is, quite simply, overwhelming. With that being said, what The New York Times did nearly a week ago was inexcusable and perhaps unforgivable. When the banner headline on your website reads, 'Israeli Strikes Kill Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say,' you’re swallowing a monstrous lie.
In an editor’s note, the paper said it had 'relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified,' which 'left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was.' What’s more, given the sensitivity of the issue, 'Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.
There were other news organizations that ran similar headlines: the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, Reuters and CNN.com to name a few, but the Times – which boasts 55 million followers on X, formerly Twitter – is the largest and most influential. I give the Times credit for belatedly admitting its massive mistake, but it came after bowing to pressure from many critics, including me. That’s a very rare development, especially since the Times dumped their ombudsman positions.
’m sorry, but you don’t have to be pro-Israel to see that the evidence of Israel's noninvolvement is definitive. What I find inexplicable is that some Western news organizations are continuing to cast this as a dispute, with each side blaming the other.
Western intelligence also says Hamas greatly exaggerated the death toll as more than 500 when U.S. intel has suggested it could be as low as 100, according to Reuters. Still absolutely tragic, but not as deadly as claimed. Most journalistic errors can be alleviated by corrections, but in this case, it’s too late to undo the consequences.
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