A CNN analysis featured a misleading graph tracking strikes between Hezbollah and the IDF from October 2023 to June 2026. The cherry-picked data distorted the reality of the war, while also highlighting a broader issue: the consequences of newsrooms uncritically relying on politicized NGO datasets.
CNN's article on a crime wave in Israel's Arab sector distorts history to portray the Arab sector as perpetual victims of Israel, erasing Arab aggression in the 1948 war and the positive contributions of many in the sector to Israel today.
The BBC's Jeremy Bowen promoted the decidedly not “in-depth” (but definitely predictable) narrative that it is Israel that is “the problem” in the Golan Heights border area.
Amid disturbing reports of anti-Druze massacres by Syrian forces, caution amidst the fog of war might be warranted. What we’ve seen from the New York Times is something else entirely. It is indifference to the Druze community and advocacy for the new Syrian regime.
