CNN’s coverage of the disputed West Bank territory, also known as Judea and Samaria, is demonstrably biased against Israelis. One need only contrast how the network covered two recent attacks carried out there – one perpetrated by Israelis and the other by Palestinians.
A senior Hamas official's son is arrested in Europe, a hospital in Gaza is being used as a Hamas torture chamber, and a Qatari conspiracy looms over the International Criminal Court.
Stories of the abuse of Israeli hostages continue emerging, Iran's interference in Iraqi elections grows, and Israel and India to ink a major defense deal. Plus: as the horrors in Sudan finally start making the headlines, we recall another time the world overlooked atrocities elsewhere to fixate on the Jewish state.
With such grand sanctimony comes grand hypocrisy in the pages of The New York Times. Masha Gessen and a band of supposed “good citizens” of a “bad country” promote the idea that “all [Israelis] are responsible” for the imagined evilness of their nation.
This week: released terrorists rewarded with luxury; Lebanon's failure to disarm Hezbollah risks disaster; a violent antisemite gets prison time; and a throwback to a less-than-prescient speech by former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
CNN's audience deserves transparency about the motivations and credibility of those the network presents as "experts." The network's inconsistent standards do a disservice to media consumers and continue to undermine journalistic integrity.
This week: Hamas's marching orders for Al Jazeera, Palestinians openly discuss Hamas's use of hospitals, new archaeological finds, and the International Court of Justice's irrelevance.
CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and The Guardian treated Saleh al-Jafarawi, "Mr. Fafo," as a legitimate journalist. If al-Jafarawi is a "journalist" in the same way their reporters are, then why should the public trust anything these outlets report?