The major media outlets in the United States, notably the NYTimes and the Washington Post, are once again complicit in the perpetuating misinformation. The latest example is the rush to blame Israel for a hospital bombing in Gaza that purportedly killed five hundred people. When it later became apparent that it was a misguided missile from Islamic Jihad, that the hospital was not severely damaged, and far fewer people died, there was no major recantation from the newspapers.
Even when the actual evidence continued to pile up and contradict the initial reports, they just merely resorted to stating that there is “evidence on both sides.” They couldn’t even admit that they were incorrect. They don’t even seem to want to restore their credibility. And that’s the problem. How stupid can these media groups be to even believe any news from Hamas? In the rush to downplay the atrocities or equivocate Israel’s response for the Hamas slaughter, they perpetuate the lies and don’t even seem to really care that they do.