This much seems obvious, but the “War in Gaza” has created a particularly grimy editorial genre of Natural Disaster-izing mass death. Take one May 6 report in the New York Times detailing how Israel’s assault has completely destroyed the education system of Gaza. But, alas, the New York Times can’t spell out the obvious, lest they offend the crybully pro-Israel media watchers and their right-wing “liberal media”-complaining confederates. Again, contrast this Fog of War, who’s-to-say-who-did-what framing with how CNN covered Russian attacks on hospitals in a straightforward way. “Russian missile strike on Zaporizhzhia maternity hospital kills newborn baby,” a November 2022 CNN headline reads.

Source: New York Times June 22, 2024 08:31 UTC