Before the official confirmation of the death of terrorist Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed by Israeli Defense Forces in an underground bunker in suburban Beirut, Associated Press reporter Bassem Mroue filed “Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.”
That headline, recycled by many newspaper outlets who ran the AP story, holds more than a hint of the ridiculous Washington Post headline marking the 2019 assassination of another terrorist leader, the founder of ISIS: “Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.”
(Mainstream American conservative figures earn far more hostile headlines over their own obituaries in the mainstream press. Radio host Rush Limbaugh’s death in 2021 was marked with this New York Times headline: “Agitator Who Made Talk Radio A Right-Wing…
