The private media never admits its errors when they depend on a single source and this gives rise to false information as we have seen in the coverage of the Gaza hospital explosion.
A radical change was seen, so to speak, in the coverage of the Gaza hospital explosion, at first some important media outlets such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal published a full-page Israeli attack that kills 500 people in the explosion of a hospital. hospital, then as more information emerged there were different headlines saying “US says Israel is not involved”, but as far as we know no media outlets rectified it as new evidence came to light.
All of this is despicable and corrupt, whether by very Junior people who just came out of Columbia journalism school or “expert” journalists who take orders, and know nothing about history because one of the very obvious things about the Palestinian conflict- Israel in its many years is that the Palestinians, not only Hamas, but many others, hide their weapons inside hospitals and schools, and this is actually well known.
These people didn't know anything about anything, in the first instance they should be neutral and the other aspect is that in particular The New York Times has a very bad history regarding Israel.
In breaking news situations the media has to update things as information arrives, but critics say the damage has already been done, we are seeing large protests emerge after these headlines; and in these moments it is good to remember Winston Churchill
"A lie goes around the world before the truth has time to put on its pants." - Winston Churchill
In Churchill's time it was much slower, now it goes around the world in digital time, therefore, that news that was distorted by the New York Times went around the world practically instantly and of course was picked up by everyone. newspapers in the Arab world that despise Israel and always have.
How to stop all this, apart from reforming our own media, I don't know, the role of the New York Times is especially disastrous because historically and even today it is considered the newspaper of reference, which is totally fallacious, because if we go back In the late 1920s and 1930s, when his Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty reported bad awareness of Stalin's activities in Ukraine, the famous Holodomor was increased with
millions of Dead is why the New York Times does not have clean hands.
"The excellent harvest that is about to be harvested demonstrates that any report of a famine in Russia today is an exaggeration or malignant propaganda" - Walter Duranty, from the Soviet Union, August 1933
