WaPo Caption Said Israeli Children Held As Hostages In Gaza Were ‘Detained’ By Hamas
When did our press become stenographers for terrorists?
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Rush Limbaugh used to call the corporate press the “drive-by media” and he wasn’t wrong.
Reporting in most of the media is shallow, often uninformed, and then they just move right along to the next story that they cover exactly the same way.
The media at large uncritically repeats what’s told to them by whatever source — as long it confirms their priors.
That’s what they’re doing with the current war in the Middle East.
And boy, oh, boy is it a problem.
Be aware that every time an article says “Palestinian authorities” that’s code for “Hamas spokesperson”.
Our failing Regime Media is uncritically reporting what Hamas is telling them and essentially legitimizing them as “authorities” in the process.
The media is essentially acting as regime propagandists parroting whatever is fed to them by a terrorist organization that just tortured and slaughtered Israeli civilians in a way that would’ve made Heinrich Himmler stand up and applaud.
While some terrorist sympathizers in the press are outing themselves with their bylines, we may never know the names of the people behind the scenes who choose to frame the “news” with a clear bias.
There was a spectacular example of this yesterday with a caption for a photo in the Washington Post that stated that an Israeli woman’s children were “detained” by Hamas.
Author and conservative journalist Bethany Mandel spotted the caption and posted it on Twitter.
Interesting choice of words from Washington Post. “detained” 🤔 pic.twitter.com/kiuKHPjIwo
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) October 20, 2023
Stephen Miller, the contributing editor of The Spectator — not to be confused with Trump’s senior policy advisor with the same name — was right on top of this.
You could say that he “pounced” — and it was the right kind of pouncing.
He wanted to know who made the decision and why.
This is a choice. This is an editorial choice by Washington Post.
You wanted proof @farhip, this is it. https://t.co/dNhWQEJdca
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 20, 2023
It’s not like this is a single person’s decision. An editor had to approve it.
.@farhip @ErikWemple
You guys should probably explain why the first caption was allowed to be published, who wrote it, which editor approved it.Then you guys should explain why it was changed, which editor approved the change and why.
Democracy dies in darkness. pic.twitter.com/yn1i4ZBjZz
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 20, 2023
@farhip Paul, who at Washington Post made this stealth change and why was it approved after originally being published? pic.twitter.com/gKHgcMIlGM
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 20, 2023
Paul, who and why approve this change? pic.twitter.com/vQGVnbsXk9
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 20, 2023
Miller is like a dog with a bone.
He is not going to let this go.
Also, @farhip @ErikWemple Not dropping this. So your options are:
1 ignore this and wake up to your mentions as a garbage fire for the next six months
2 Explain it, as best you know how, let W&M handle it
3 Say you’re being harassed and blame “fog of war” on MAGA.…
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 20, 2023
@ErikWemple Check your DMs
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 20, 2023
At one point, he asks the salient question that Team WaPo should really be asking themselves.
Why does the RW shitposter guy have to be the one who explains basic journalism ethics to you guys? Have you ever stopped to ask that? @farhip @ErikWemple https://t.co/478QaYalJG
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 20, 2023
Because, he really is a sh*tposter.
Describing kidnapped Jewish children and babies as being “detained” by Hamas terrorists happened in the fog of war. Mistakes happen and we should all take a moment to learn from this.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 20, 2023
The question remains — why did WaPo do it?
Newsweek Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon explains it succinctly in this clip:
This was the week our press corps was revealed for what they truly are: the stenographers of terrorists. pic.twitter.com/Zk9pkOfviC
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) October 20, 2023
She’s right. Here at ClashDaily, we often call the press the “Regime Media”. In this case, the Regime talking points that are being parroted by the American Pravda Press are from Hamas. Think about that for a second.
The New York Times was the worst with that — they changed the headline at least three times, changed the content of the article, and in the first publication, they used a misleading photo of a building that was damaged that was not the hospital.
Libs And Journos POUNCE On Gaza Hospital ‘Bombing’ — There’s Just One BIG Problem…
Perhaps it has something to do with who it is that they hire.
When will the NYT stop hiring literal Adolf Hitler fans as their lead reporters in Gaza? https://t.co/rmzqw6YxjF pic.twitter.com/cQzqV1vtzV
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 20, 2023
Conservative columnist Becket Adams notes that this is a real departure from the four years under the Trump administration.
“We gotta report it because that’s what they’re saying; we’ll find the facts later,” is such a crazy position to hear promoted following everything journalists and pundits argued during the last presidency. https://t.co/E4SKCGNhDD
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) October 19, 2023
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