Zach Kessel and Ari Blaff offered a big write-up at National Review titled “How the Washington Post Abandoned Basic Journalistic Standards Covering the Israel–Hamas War.”
Some of it recounts the general tendency to rely on Hamas: “A review by NR of the Post’s coverage since 10/7 revealed no fewer than 148 individual articles that cite the ministry’s casualty statistics. Some of the articles refer to the Gaza Health Ministry as ‘Hamas-run’ while others lack any modifier that would inform a naïve reader who might view the Gaza Health Ministry as a neutral agency.”
But Kessel and Blaff muster several disturbing episodes of misinformation, such as the alleged al-Ahli hospital bombing, which was not an Israeli bombing and did not destroy the hospital. There were more inflammatory articles:
A month after the hospital-blast misstep, the paper…
