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.
Further sanitizing Hamas’s actions: This is the second of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that started on October 7, 2023.
Creating a narrative, absolving Hamas: This is the first of a three-part series examining Rolling Stone’s coverage of the war in Gaza that started on October 7, 2023.
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.
In falsely labelling Kfar Aza a "settlement," CBS' Errol Barnett adopts anti-Israel jargon signaling that the supposedly illegitimate community should be obliterated.
Engaging in vile Oct. 7 denial, France24 "World of the Week" presenter Gavin Lee said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "is the person who triggered the conflict in the first place," as if Hamas' orgy of murder, kinocide, rape, kidnapping, torture and maiming never happened.
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.
“From Ground Zero” is a compilation of short films made by people in Gaza since the war started, and chronicles some of the hardships that they face. In discussing the movie, Variety does not mention the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel or the hostages that remain in captivity.
