He's not wrong, but there seems to be an issue of the Gell-Mann amnesia going on here. The mass media has consistently been terrible about reporting unverified

He's not wrong, but there seems to be an issue of the Gell-Mann amnesia going on here. The mass media has consistently been terrible about reporting unverified claims, and this is nothing new. And numerous cases were even worse than the Gaza attack, with no effort to correct things or verify what happened at all. Here's just one example off the top of my head. When the last Democratic primary began, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders held a meeting. The New York Times reported on it, and said that it was cordial[1]. A year later during the heat of the primary, Warren's poll numbers started dropping and Sanders' started rising, and her campaign suddenly claimed that Sanders' had said during the meeting that a woman couldn't be president. The New York Times was happy to report her claims[2], and didn't even mention that their reporting of the meeting when it happened showed no evidence of this. There are plenty of other examples where the New York Times and other members of the media have either made an article about unverified accusations, or made fairly misleading reporting that would lead readers astray. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-2020.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/elizabeth-war... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-woman-president.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/politics/bernie-sander...