hotair.com BY ED MORRISSEY
Remember how ardently the mainstream media and Big Tech fought against “misinformation”? Let’s take a look at their commitment to “truth” this past week. Every mainstream media outlet in America fell for a Hamas propaganda hoax eight days ago, reporting that Israel had bombed a hospital in Gaza and demolished it, killing over 500 people. Our MSM “misinformation” censors amplified that hoax and sent it around the world before the sun rose in Gaza, touching off riots at US embassies and violent demonstrations here in the US.
Most of these media outlets began retracting the story when the sun rose, and the hospital clearly remained standing. The New York Times – the “paper of record”! – still hasn’t yet admitted to being a Hamas repeater station. As of yesterday, the most that the NYT would admit was that Hamas had not yet “made its case” on an Israeli attack, despite ample evidence that the parking lot damage came from a stray rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Meanwhile, the rest of the media seems more interested in circling wagons than in admitting complicity in a hoax that touched off violence around the world. NPR’s David Folkenflik defended the use of Hamas claims today, arguing the media has little choice, although Folkenflik is particularly critical of the NYT in his analysis:
When the fog of war envelopes the pursuit of breaking news, the journalism that follows often suffers…
