Is there an imminent famine in Gaza? How CNN has covered this story over the last four months is illuminating, but not in the sense of discovering the facts. Rather, CNN’s coverage illustrates how the network is leaving its audience both uninformed and misinformed.
CNN authors found it sufficient to largely copy and paste from competing statements without adding any value. To call this lazy journalism isn’t entirely accurate, though. After all, we know that the network will work overtime to concoct bizarre “investigative” reporting riddled with holes, dubious claims, and thin evidence. The amount of effort devoted seems to depend on who the story makes look good or bad.
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Keir Simmons erroneously referred to locations which Hezbollah targeted within internationally-recognized Israeli territory as "settlements." While MSNBC agreed the terminology was wrong, the network declined to broadcast a correction.
A Hamas leader admitted to deliberately engaging in war crimes as a matter of strategy and CNN’s Nic Robertson still made it instead about Israel being bad.
CAMERA prompts correction after UPI falsely reported that United Nations said "nearly 500" West Bank Palestinians were killed in settler-related incidents since Oct. 7. In fact, the UN cited seven fatalities. McClatchy subsequently corrects on more than two dozen sites.
Four times this week, the New York Times covered anti-Israel demonstrations and incidents. Each time, it concealed from readers vile extremism, death threats, support for Hamas and its Oct. 7 attacks, and violent assaults by those the paper characterizes as "pro-Palestinian protesters."
In response to communication from CAMERA's Jerusalem office, Reuters deletes posts on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook which erroneously used Tel Aviv as a metonyn for Israel.
Even as authorities from Sydney to Brooklyn were still investigating and removing pro-Hamas graffiti, the Associated Press engaged in scrubbing of a different sort.
The University of Minnesota is set to hire, as its new director for the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, an individual who would serve better as a case study on the persistence of genocidal antisemitism than as credible researcher of it.
