Under the guise of "contextualized truth," The Los Angeles Times falsely casts children suffering from serious medical conditions as famine victims. By depriving themselves of the essential ingredients which nourish healthy journalism — seek truth and report it, minimize harm and act independently — LA Times writers have devolved into ghoulish shadows of functioning journalists.
So intent is Omar Abdel-Baqui on depicting an American-Palestinian enclave in the West Bank as "a little slice of Americana" that he glaringly excises a highly revealing and very un-American detail: a call for the violent erasure of the entire state of Israel.
AFP captions accompanying a dozen portraits of Mariam Dawwas report without challenge the mother's claim that the 9-year-old "had no known illness." Independent journalist David Collier outperforms the "leading global news agency," revealing the malnourished girl suffers from intestinal malabsorption.
If information backed up by publicly shared Hamas documents is "unsubstantiated," as The Los Angeles Times suggests, what could possibly constitute substantiation regarding "journalists" moonlighting as terrorists?
Reuters corrects after citing B'Tselem's grossly inflated figure for Israeli domestic water usage. But its article still ignores Israeli data indicating that double the amount of water recommended for daily use in emergency situations is available in the Gaza Strip.
AP amends after ignoring that the Temple Mount is Judaism's most sacred site. In Gaza Strip coverage, the wire service corrects a headline which upgraded to fact an unverified claim about Israeli military culpability in the death of over 20 aid-seekers and also deletes misleading reporting on the U.N.'s own information regarding theft of humanitarian aid.
Reuters' coverage of the Houthis has whitewashed the "who" (an Iranian-backed terror organization with a genocidal raison d'être) and the "what" (some 400 missile and drone attacks).
The same terror organization behind sex gum and oxycodone-spiked flour fables is also the source for the unsubstantiated claim that more than 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect food at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites.
CAMERA's "Haaretz, Lost in Translation" tracker marks its bar mitzvah year, and the widely panned "Killing Field" story is the Israeli daily's coming-of-age episode.
