Viewers of ABC News Live in the past 12 days may have thought they were watching Iranian State Media with the platforming of two Iranian regime mouthpieces, Trita Parsi (four times) and Negar Mortazavi, and no push back whatsoever by ABC.
The New York Times obituary of Ayatollah Khamenei did a reasonable job of describing his cruelty to his own people. But when it came to his pursuit of nuclear weapons, the Times dropped the ball and portrayed him as a victim.
AP shares without challenge propaganda from Mehr News Agency while also failing to disclose that its Iranian regime-controlled partner is owned by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization.
It’s horribly dispiriting – particularly given the tsunami of antisemitism in Britain since the Oct. 7 massacre – that Telegraph editors not only allowed such a toxic trope to be published, but actually defended it.
CNN's access in Iran does not guarantee an unfiltered look inside the Iranian capital, especially when that access is granted by the Islamic Republic itself, CAMERA's Darcie Grunblatt writes in The Jerusalem Post as foreign correspondent Frederik Pleitgen adopts the regime's narrative portraying Iran as the victim of Western aggression.
Political science professor and host of PBS' "Ivory Tower" program, Nina Moore, proved that she could push back on statements from her fellow academics at the roundtable when she wanted to. When Israel was slandered by Professor Anirban Acharya, Moore said nothing.
The Wall Street Journal's obituary for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei erased his regime's brutal repression of women, instead lauding it for boosting female literacy rates, and whitewashed its bloody fueling of conflict and terror as a defensive posture.