Hoax-Prone NYTimes Forced To Retract Yet ANOTHER Bogus Story

When Trump blasted the Presstitutes in the ‘mainstream’ press as ‘fake news’… he was being far kinder than they really deserved.

The same news outlets that have blasted independent media and right-of-center bloggers like yours truly as ‘misinformation and disinformation’ have a far better track record for not taking the bait on bogus stories than the so-called ‘respectable’ press that claim to be writing the ‘first draft of history’.

We could rattle off the list of things they fell for that we didn’t — from Russiagate, to Hunter’s laptop, to so many sup-sets of the Covid orthodoxy, to Biden’s decline, to the ‘very fine people’ hoax, to Hamas ‘bombing’ a hospital, to the Trump arrests — but a complete list would probably fill an entire column.

That’s just staying in the political sphere, without getting into, say, the polar bears starving to death. Except there was no epidemic of starving polar bears. A photographer saw one sickly bear and crafted an entire narrative around that one photo. National Geographic was forced to retract it, but not before those images were used as ‘proof positive’ of the impending horrors of — you guessed it — Climate Change.

The polar bear story is especially relevant because it is a near-perfect parallel for the lie the helped perpetuate just a few days ago.

Here was the headline of the story in question:

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation
After 21 months of devastating conflict with Israel, Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians — the young, the old and the sick — are facing what aid groups say is impending famine.

The fact that Western Media has found itself retracting articles overstating their criticisms of wrongdoing on the part of the IDF, and the harms incurred on Gazan civilians, it would be incumbent on them to exercise the utmost caution in confirming the accuracy of any claim made about the actions of either party in this conflict.

Criticizes the real mistakes and atrocities all you want, so long as they actually happened.

But it is of critical importance to remember that parties on both sides are keenly aware that the eyes of the world are on them, and journalists need to be especially aware of attempts to manipulate their reporting for propaganda purposes, like Hamas having to correct their own casualty numbers downward becuase they were terribly inflated — but repeated by media as if they were airtight facts. Or how some of the same people have been reported as killed (or grievously wounded) on social media — multiple times. One social media activist even got the nickname ‘Paliwood’ and was practically a Where’s Waldo meme in the early days of the conflict.

A misfired Hamas rocket landed in the parking lot of a hospital, early in the fighting, and before dawn, news outlets were blaming Israel for hundreds killed in a hospital strike.

The latest messaging war centers on efforts to feed the civilians that are trapped in the region, with Egypt forbidding refugees to cross to the relative safety of their country.

Israel is still in open conflict with Palestinian combatants who refuse to give up Jewish hostages, while being perhaps the only nation in history actively supplying aid to the very people with whom they are engaged in open warfare.

Some of the aid points have been targeted by insurgent violence, and there is serious need and real hunger in some parts of Gaza.

Just as the media found themselves an emotionally sensational story with a heartbreaking photo when a dead toddler washed up on shore in Syria back in 2015 — a story blending truth and lies whose emotional power opened immigration floodgates to Europe — the NYTimes found an emotionally sensational photo of an emaciated child. And they build a story around it… implicating Israel.

That story, along with the photo of the child was on their front page.

The only problem with that story is that it wasn’t true. Even they are saying so (quietly).

We have appended an Editors’ Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.

They issued a correction, but even the correction is perpetuating a lie, a lie that was quietly deleted without acknowledgment:

Their correction is not issued on their main social media account with more than 55 million followers, but on their lesser-known communications account with only 88 thousand followers. It’s quite a difference. What’s that old saw about a lie traveling halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on?

NYTimes was the delivery system for said lie. Because of course it was.

It’s hardly the first one.