Your source to mainline mainstream media misdeeds and malarkey.
It was a weekend of wild news items and completely fractured news reporting. An alleged attack on aid workers and Palestinians gathered to receive supplies by Israeli troops was errant from the start, but the avalanche of news reports rolled out despite Hamas being the primary source. As the week went on, more and more outlets have been forced to change and correct their reporting.
Also delivering trouble was the firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado. The fact that a pro-Palestinian man was targeting Jewish people set up all sorts of conflict for journalists as they struggled to reframe the details. Then we close out with revered journalist Christiane Amanpour detailing the harrowing experience she had when traveling to a dangerous nation.
Her version of events is as stunted as her claim of harrowing travel
Now, crack one open and savor some outmoded media malpractice and misinformation.
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After some early reporting, the stampede of news outlets falsely reporting on the Gaza attack was shameful.
The BBC delivered ever-evolving coverage of the Gaza attack.
The Washington Post had to reframe its coverage from Sunday.
The BBC tried to refute Karoline Leavitt’s criticism and ended up proving her correct.
CNN lectures the FBI for correctly calling a firebomb attack on Jewish rally goers “terrorism”.
The attack in Boulder, Colorado, had NBC News struggling to avoid noting Jewish victims were involved.
USA Today attempts to draw sympathy for the family of the firebomb attacker.
Christiane Amanpour tries to say she risked her life to speak at Harvard.
