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Others, like Elon Musk, the owner of X, have expressed disdain for the mainstream press It's pretty grimly funny seeing this in the NYT, days after the banner,
by jseliger 3y ago
Others, like Elon Musk, the owner of X, have expressed disdain for the mainstream press
It's pretty grimly funny seeing this in the NYT, days after the banner, page-spanning headline blaring "Israel strike kills hundreds in hospital, Palestinians say" https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1714426406761828560 https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/171442640676182856.... It appears that every one of the first six words is a lie, and a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad killed dozens of people in the hospital's parking lot. And then the tepid followup: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/business/media/hospital-blast-gaza-reports.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/business/media/hospital-b...: "After Hospital Blast, Headlines Shift With Changing Claims: The fast-moving events highlighted the difficulty of covering the war between Israel and Hamas." OSINT Twitter accounts were more judicious and ultimately more accurate way faster.
The NYT is fine if one wants a particular slant to the news, and it may be that social media companies think many people don't. Their cooking vertical for recipes is really good, though.
And this comment is ignoring the way the NYT and other legacy media have been attacking the tech industry since Nov. 2016.
- aCoreyJ 3y agoYea of course it's false if you ignore the "Palestinians say"... That's why it's there
- anon373839 3y agoI believe the point is that the headline was written to suggest that the claims were factual, and to deemphasize their source. An alternate, less manipulative, headline could have been: “Palestinians blame Israel for deadly hospital blast.” And of course, when you consider the weaselly correction headline after, the slant is undeniable.
- jacooper 3y agoThis has only been said by the IDF, the same ones who lied about the children, and lied about poisoning wells in 1948. So yes it was a bomb from Israel, and Hamas never had such a powerful bomb.
- marmadukester39 3y agoAlso by US intelligence.