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When Media Call a Cockpit Stabbing, Hijacking Distress Signal and Nosedive a Pilot ‘Clash,’ ‘Fight’ or ‘Brawl’

One pilot stabbed another on a FlyDubai flight en route to Tel Aviv, resulting in the stabbed pilot sending distress and hijacking signals. The plane took a nosedive and a mass casualty event was thwarted by brave crew members and Israeli passengers who subdued the attacking copilot. Despite this known information, early and mid-day mainstream media news reports sanitized the terrifying events as a "fight," "brawl," or "clash" in the cockpit.

CAMERA Op-Ed: Don’t Let Terrorists Weaponize U.S. Citizenship

There is nothing American about weaponizing U.S. citizenship, CAMERA's Tamar Sternthal writes in The Washington Times. It is time for journalists to look past the strategically placed American flags to the inconvenient facts of terrorism — even if it means exposing a town that is no place like home.