{"id":3370,"date":"2023-10-29T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/the-new-york-times-portrayal-of-the-gaza-hospital-story-is-reprehensible\/"},"modified":"2023-10-29T17:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T17:26:27","slug":"the-new-york-times-portrayal-of-the-gaza-hospital-story-is-reprehensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/the-new-york-times-portrayal-of-the-gaza-hospital-story-is-reprehensible\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times’ portrayal of the Gaza hospital story is reprehensible."},"content":{"rendered":"


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By Elad Vaida<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Op-ed contributor
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Mark Twain may not have really said<\/a> \u201ca lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes,\u201d but the saying still hits home. Thanks to mainstream media outlets like the New York Times, lies don\u2019t just travel halfway around the world, they do so in first class with generous help from their leftist journalist friends.<\/p>\n

A prime example of the mainstream media\u2019s tendency to spread falsehood is the recent lie that Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, killing hundreds of innocent civilians. As we now know, evidence shows that the hospital was tragically destroyed by a missile from Palestinian Islamic Jihad<\/a>, a terrorist group operating from Gaza, and that the death toll was not as high as initially thought.<\/p>\n

The NYT, which originally blamed Israel for the bombing on October 17, issued an \u201ceditors\u2019 note<\/a>\u201d on October 23, explaining that their report \u201cleft readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was\u201d and acknowledging that \u201cTimes editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sure, the NYT, as the editors\u2019 note says, changed parts of the original story within two hours of publication to reflect the \u201cthe scope of the explosion and the dispute over responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

But why did it take them almost a whole week to issue this equivocating non-apology?<\/p>\n

Notice that the Times never actually apologized for its behavior. It acknowledged that \u201cTimes editors should have taken more care\u201d instead of saying, \u201cwe were reckless and spread misinformation that will end up hurting Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the theologian and writer Michael Brown pointed out, the lie that Israel indiscriminately bombed a hospital full of hundreds of women and children \u201cwill live on for decades<\/a>.\u201d The tale will be told throughout the Arab world, the falsehood cementing itself in millions of minds and fomenting further hatred against Israel.<\/p>\n

But this narrative won\u2019t just spread in the Middle East \u2014 it will spread in the West as well, giving fuel to Israel haters and antisemites who will prove immune to the evidence showing Israel\u2019s innocence.<\/p>\n

The NYT and other mainstream media publications who carelessly parroted Hamas\u2019s claims of the supposed Israeli atrocity are to blame. But we shouldn\u2019t be surprised. This is their modus operandi: spreading lies nonstop, and, when they are caught in the act, publishing an \u201ceditors\u2019 note\u201d or a correction of the original erroneous article days, weeks, or even months after the fact.<\/p>\n

A prime example of this came right before the 2020 election, when the NYT and Washington Post claimed a story about Hunter Biden\u2019s incriminating laptop was \u201cRussian disinformation,\u201d before finally admitting they were wrong \u2014 a year and a half after the election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What makes the mainstream media\u2019s behavior even worse is their ruthless crackdown on free speech. The NYT and their allies have, for years, pushed an authoritarian censorship regime against conservatives in the name of stopping \u201cdisinformation,\u201d which gives the left a blank check to squash any speech they don\u2019t like by arbitrarily slapping it with the label of \u201cdisinformation\u201d \u2014 all while spreading lies themselves.<\/p>\n

The Book of Proverbs warns that \u201cThe one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.\u201d How true that statement rings when reading much of the news these days.<\/p>\n

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Elad Vaida is a writer living in Virginia. He was previously the speechwriter for Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana). His writing has appeared in American Greatness, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Washington Examiner, and other publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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