The images of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, and the plight of the rest of the hostages cruelly held by their terrorist captors for 668 days, have not gone viral. Instead, much of the media have self-conscripted themselves to a disinformation campaign that serves the interests of a Palestinian movement that’s not only pathologically hostile to Jews, but to the West as well.
MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin, Antonio Hylton and Catherine Rampell fail to correct the record after Pulitzer Prize winner Mosab Abu Toha falsely and repeatedly identified released hostage Emily Damari, a civilian kidnapped from her home, as a soldier.
CAMERA prompts correction at CBS after the network grossly underreported the number of hostages kidnapped Oct. 7 as "roughly 100." Hamas and other terrorists kidnapped 251 hostages on Oct. 7.
As a music magazine, Rolling Stone has no obligation to cover these events at all. Yet it not only chooses to do so, it chooses to do it in a manner that misinforms and misleads its readers. This is the last of a three-part series.
UPDATE: After communication from CAMERA staff and members of the public, The Los Angeles Times finally corrects the demonstrably false claim that most of the remaining hostages are soldiers. In fact, the overwhelming majority of those then remaining -- 60 out of 73 -- are civilians.
CBS commendably corrects after wrongly referring to released hostage Arbel Yahoud, 29, as a soldier. The network has yet to correct its false reference to Kibbutz Kfar Aza as a 'settlement.'
There’s more than one way to erase the hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip. The more genteel journalistic erasures exact far greater and lasting damage than the bombastic street displays.
On January 14, communities across the globe marked 100 days since Israeli hostages were abducted to Gaza. When an Israeli soccer player in Turkey was arrested for doing the same, the New York Times cast it as a martial reference, and refused to correct their misrepresentation.
While Agence France Presse neglects to correct an article which underreported that Hamas captured "dozens" of hostages, subsequent AFP articles accurately cite 240 hostages. VOA, unlike AFP, commendably corrects.
