The Gaza Hospital Fiasco Offers A Vivid
Example Of Journalism’s Rot
The Federalist,
by
David Harsanyi
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/21/2023 8:45:25 PM
When news broke yesterday that Israel had bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, killing patients, children, and staff, every “anti-Zionist,” “critic of Israel,” and most big American journalism outfits ran with the horrible story. The tale incited worldwide condemnation and recrimination. But it wasn’t true. Israel did not hit the hospital. The Islamic Jihad did. Hundreds of people did not die. The missile landed in a parking lot. It was Hamas disinformation.
The media’s disastrous failure on the Gaza hospital bombing story is one of the most vivid and instructive examples of the structural and inherent problems plaguing contemporary journalism. It mirrors many other fiascos of the past decade.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
scottj 10/21/2023 9:11:52 PM (No. 1583091)
The media has had very little credibility. They now have no credibility.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 10/21/2023 9:29:51 PM (No. 1583095)
Modern American journalists and their MSM employers are communist wannabes. That is a logical explanation of the many lies told to the public about this false hospital bombing...and lies upon lies for the past twenty-some years.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 10/21/2023 10:09:52 PM (No. 1583107)
Journalist = Liar. Plain and simple.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
The Remnants 10/21/2023 11:05:15 PM (No. 1583117)
I actually remember a time when you'd say, "I heard it on The News", and believe that I was getting the truth of what happened. No more.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 10/21/2023 11:11:59 PM (No. 1583120)
NOTHING hit the hospital. A Hamas missile hit the parking lot.
Possibly, someone may have died in the parking lot, but not likely a single casualty in the hospital. The Enemedia is way too gullible, especially with Hamas, worse liars than Joe.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 10/21/2023 11:15:37 PM (No. 1583123)
It's amazing how often these "mistakes" go one way in the media.
Oh yeah, how many media outlets covered the Hamas missle that took out a walkway between two hospitals at the start of this WAR. Which was started by Hamas.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NotaBene 10/22/2023 12:09:28 AM (No. 1583135)
Doppler effect of the sound of the incoming missile showed that it came from Israel. Mossad is great!
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Re: "...one of the most vivid and instructive examples of the structural and inherent problems plaguing contemporary journalism." Please change 'journalism.' to ROT!!!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
5 handicap 10/22/2023 5:37:31 AM (No. 1583194)
FTA: "The media’s disastrous failure"...
There was no failure, it was an intentional lie wholly in support of the murderous scum they admire! Failure implies an effort to get it right, anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows the opposite is true. The NYT would not hire a soul with integrity nor would CBS, ABC or NBC.i, it would be impossible for any man or woman of Honor to stand the corruption!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rinktum 10/22/2023 7:02:31 AM (No. 1583220)
Journalism today is nothing more than reporting the news they want us to hear, setting a narrative or delivering leftist propaganda. Sometimes it is all three at the same time. What it never is an honest reporting of what is happening. There always is an agenda to promote or an agenda to omit depending upon the circumstances, but it is never without bias. I don’t believe what the msm reports and I certainly do not believe anything that comes out a government officials mouth. We are in a state of news gathering in this country that is reminiscent of a Soviet style propaganda outlet. We simply cannot trust the media. Tragically, even some conservatives sites are suspect. We are being told what to think.
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Anyone who has paid any attention at all. knows about the rot of journalism.
The bigger problem is the rot of American reasoning and logic and search for truth.
We are surrounded by lemmings!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rightdog 10/22/2023 7:41:28 AM (No. 1583242)
Be careful before believing everything that you see or hear from the mainstream media, many of whom are little more than propagandists who jump on anything that they think advances their own agendas, in this case hating Israel and Jews in general. Fact finding and objectivity aren't even in the equation.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chagrined 10/22/2023 7:51:44 AM (No. 1583246)
Considering how bad the enemedia is in this country, and in many outlets around the world, one might think millions more Americans would've stopped listening to them. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to have happened.
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The author of the quote “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”, is debated among scholars. Mark Twain, Jonathon Swift, Winston Churchill, and others have all been attributed as the author. Regardless of origin, the validity of this statement remains true today.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/22/2023 8:05:12 AM (No. 1583259)
#13, the reason that millions of Americans still listen to the enemedia is because what they hear there validates their feelings. There is no logic or thought process involved.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 10/22/2023 8:15:28 AM (No. 1583279)
The US intelligence services could have cleared this up within minutes (think satellites). Why didn't they?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 10/22/2023 9:24:35 AM (No. 1583330)
This story, with its one-sided propaganda, makes me reconsider that all of the reports of casualties among civilian residents of Gaza (you know, Israeli genocide) have come from the same place...Hamas...with the possible exception of the 70+ Gazan refugees killed by Hamas as they tried to leave Gaza City.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 10/22/2023 9:27:14 AM (No. 1583332)
To Reply #13
Because that is ALL they watch. They never look for alternative news but believe what the outlets you note offer. mostly lies and propaganda, as factual.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 10/22/2023 9:34:57 AM (No. 1583342)
Poster #2 - - They are not "wannabe communists" - - they are communists.
And the corrupt leftist hoaxes did not begin with creepy Dan Rathernot. They go back at least as far as the late 1980s - - with the Tawana Brawley lies - - repeated ad nauseam for months in the leftist media. And even further to the lies of the FDR years - - swearing that the idea of communists in his administration were right-wing lies.
Leftist have been evil liars from the moment of their creation.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/22/2023 9:40:18 AM (No. 1583348)
#13, even if the msm were to show Amerika's ignorant ones the pics and videos of the 1,400 Israeli men, women, and children who were burned alive, chopped up, and/ or shot in the back of the head, they would claim it all as fake news because their minds were irreversibly pre-conditioned. It is rather sad how such a primitive form of brainwashing can skew one's common sense and morality. And notice how so few of them dare to stray from this evil borg.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Zigrid 10/22/2023 11:14:18 AM (No. 1583428)
It doesn't matter... whatever the fake news says...Israel is moving forward with their plan to eliminate Hamas and doesn't need the narrative provided by the congressional squad....it makes no difference to Moosad and IDF...they are on a mission....God speed!!
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chagrined 10/22/2023 11:28:58 AM (No. 1583445)
All good points, posters #15, #18, and #20.
More specifically, #15, our yutes are purposely being prevented from learning how to think for themselves in our wonderful indoctrination centers known as skrewls. Feelings, social justice, gender tripe, and other such blather has replaced true academics such as reading, writing and arithmetic.
And #18, the same can be said for their ignorance of U.S. and World History, also peddled by our wonderful, burgeoning, brainwashing centers. They flat out do not recognize the difference between a lie and truth, with some of them even proud of their ignorance of American History in particular.
And #20, they don't want to go against the grain, be shamed in front of their ignorant peers. That would be way too tough for the limp wristed sissies so prevalent amongst our yutes.
A sad state of affairs which will be quite daunting to overcome as our despicable band of thieves (our government) continues on their merry way to ruin, and poisonous social media sites pile on too. I have no answers.
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