Now everyone knows that Hamas isn’t exactly a purveyor of the truth, so even the NYT had to qualify all three headlines with “Palestinians say”. Why not, for the first headline, at least, say “Palestinians claim that strike on hospital kills hundreds”? That still has a lie in it (the death toll), but leaves out the “Israeli strike”, which is simply an assertion made up by Hamas for propaganda purposes. The article below in today’s NYT (click to read) is an apologia of sorts for the changing headlines. The first reports of a strike at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City came early Tuesday afternoon Eastern time.

Source: Washington Post October 20, 2023 03:51 UTC