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Washington Post Admits Bad ‘Context’ Under Front-Page Photo on Dead Children

Chris Nesi and Olivia Land at the New York Post are reporting that The Washington Post has apologized for its misleading front page on Monday morning, which juxtaposed a photograph showing mourners of an 11-year-old killed in a Hezbollah rocket strike on a soccer field next to a headline that said “Israel hits targets in Lebanon.”

The headline “did not provide adequate context,” the paper admitted in an editor’s note Tuesday. “The headlines should have noted that the Israeli strikes were a response to a rocket strike from Lebanon that killed 12 teenagers and children in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.” 

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