Posted on 10/23/2023 3:24:03 AM PDT by janetjanet998
On Oct. 17, The Times published news of an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City, leading its coverage with claims by Hamas government officials that an Israeli airstrike was the cause and that hundreds of people were dead or injured. The report included a large headline at the top of The Times’s website. Israel subsequently denied being at fault and blamed an errant rocket launch by the Palestinian faction group Islamic Jihad, which has in turn denied responsibility.
American and other international officials have said their evidence indicates that the rocket came from Palestinian fighter positions. The Times’s initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the blast. However, the early versions of the coverage — and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels — relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified. The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was.
The Times continued to update its coverage as more information became available, reporting the disputed claims of responsibility and noting that the death toll might be lower than initially reported. Within two hours, the headline and other text at the top of the website reflected the scope of the explosion and the dispute over responsibility. Given the sensitive nature of the news during a widening conflict, and the prominent promotion it received, Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.
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“The fact they hire a person who praises Hitler is proof that cancel culture is actually just a weapon against their ideological enemies rather than an honest expression of things they will no longer tolerate.”
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Of course, sincerity and CRT never had any connections.
sorry they got caught
an authentic sorry means they will never do it again
but we know they will
Bass turds.
“In our defense, we were trying to start a riot”
“Also note how the left (1) regularly compares those on the right with Hitler and Nazis, while (2) actually hiring or giving standing ovations to literal Nazis, or those who praise Hitler.”
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Ditto
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