This is entirely consistent with the establishment media practice, which is always to portray Israel as the aggressor.
“Washington Post admits it ‘did not provide adequate context’ on front page Israel-Hezbollah escalation story,” by Brian Flood and Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Fox News, July 30, 2024:
The Washington Post admitted it “did not provide adequate context” to a widely criticized front page that portrayed Israel as the aggressor against the Hezbollah terror group.
Hezbollah launched its deadliest assault against Israel since the Oct. 7 attack in the northern town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on Saturday, resulting in at least 12 dead and dozens injured, all of them children and teens who were playing on a soccer field.
The “Democracy Dies in Darkness” paper published an editor’s note on Tuesday after facing intense backlash when Monday’s front page featured a large image of Israelis mourning the death of 11-year-old Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din with the headline “Israel Hits Targets In Lebanon.”
The headline, which prompted widespread backlash with everyone from Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., to Israel Defense Forces, was referring to Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Hezbollah that occurred Sunday….
“The headline and subheadline that accompanied a July 29 Page One photo and article about Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon did not provide adequate context. The headlines should have noted that the Israeli strikes were a response to a rocket strike from Lebanon that killed 12 teenagers and children in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The photo depicted mourning for one of those victims, as the caption noted,” Post editors wrote….
Ian says
Democracy died years ago in the WAPO organization.
James Lincoln says
WAPO: the epitome of fake news.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
They didn’t describe Fu’ad Shukr as an austere religious scholar? The way they previously did Abu Baqr al Baghdadi? Why not: does WaPo consider shi’a muslims Rafidite dogs?
Troybeam says
Of course they blame Israel as the aggressor, the more something is said the more people believe it which is why the media is blaming Israel disregarding the truth of Oct.7, 2023 when Hamas Muslims attacked Israel’s people. Journalism is dead to the people because they stopped telling the truth and began the political rhetoric that the government and the leftist board members dish out for the masses.
OLD GUY says
If the political leaders and media would have treated Hitler with such respect and caution of hurting the Germans feeling the Allies and America would have lost that war too. What happened to “Talk softly and carry a BIG STICK”. When you are fighting an enemy and you don’t have the resolve to defeat them you will lose. And never forget your enemy is NOT just those in UNIFORMS.
somehistory says
It was once the news practice to tell the public what to think about. Now, publications and *news* sources are more likely to tell the public what to think.
this was the objective of the post’s story on the atrocity of hezbollah’s murder of at least 12 children. The paper wanted the public to *think* a certain way….to blame Israel for rockets fired, and children dead.
James Lincoln says
Spot on, somehistory.
A leftist narrative is created by the government / media industrial complex and is dispatched posthaste to the masses.
Now, more than ever, I checked the source of any news article. The obvious liars are CNN, BBC, MSNBC, New York Times, Associated Press, etc.
And to think that these now crap propaganda sources were once fairly reliable decades ago…
gravenimage says
Washington Post portrays Israel as aggressor in story on Hizballah strike in northern Israel
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Just disgusting. It is Hizballah that attacked Israel and murdered numerous children.