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.
On July 21, an AFP journalist society posted a press release about the "last journalists in Gaza" facing death by starvation. The Committee to Protect Journalists then declared that "Israel is starving Gazan journalists into silence.” But were the journalists really being starved into silence?
Early this month, four Agence France Presse photographers working in the Gaza Strip were named as Pulitzer Prize finalists for their “Breaking News Photography.” But zooming in on two of these individuals – Omar al-Qatta and Bashar Taleb – exposes them as the very picture of broken news photography.
