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NR Isolates Washington Post’s Awful Record on Israel-Hamas War

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…

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