There’s more than one way to erase the hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip. The more genteel journalistic erasures exact far greater and lasting damage than the bombastic street displays.
After parroting without question demonstrably false Houthi propaganda about an attack on "Israeli military targets," the Associated Press has commendably clarified that the ballistic missile hit an elementary school.
One day after the publication of yet another detailed study identifying serious flaws and anomalies in Hamas-supplied figures for fatalities incurred in Israel's Gaza Strip offensive, AP ran a headline and article which cited the terror organization's disputed and highly questionable figures as fact without even providing attribution.
The Associated Press says it advances the power of facts, CAMERA writes in the Algemeiner. However, the news service's refusal to report pro-Hamas incitement and cloaking support for the terror organization's Oct. 7 attack as "anti-war" protest is the latest instance of AP diminishing the power of facts.
How does Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta's call for regional war square with his reported concern about war's toll on children and why does AP's Abby Sewell conceal his war-mongering sentiment, CAMERA asks in Israel Hayom.
"Advancing the power of facts" is AP's promise and concealing troubling questions about due process in the horrific execution of Arvin Ghahremani is the reality.
After CAMERA prompts a significant correction of AP's absurd assertion that "[i]nternational law gives Palestinian refugees and their descendants the right to return to their homes," several dozens secondary media outlets correct.
The so-called "right of return" has been a fundamental Palestinian demand ever since the initial effort to eliminate the nascent state of Israel failed 76 years ago, but now AP has upgraded the unfulfilled aspiration into international law.
The banishment of Jewish students from campus spaces clearly impedes their free speech, yet AP's article supposedly covering the chilling of campus free speech said not one word about this dark phenomenon.
Some do a better job at informing readers of Nasrallah’s reign of terror and destruction, others do worse, but few are as egregiously distorted as CNN's obituary.
