Every good reporter knows you never bury the lede. You never smother the key point of a story with fluff and verbiage. And yet that’s exactly what much of the media is doing in its coverage of the Battle of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. They’re burying, if not outright hiding, the most vital, most unsettling part of this tale – namely, that a neo-fascist militia is using a hospital as a base from which to plot the murder of Israel’s soldiers and citizens.
When I watch news coverage of the clashes in and around Kamal Adawn, I feel like I’m losing my marbles. This is very clearly a fight between Hamas militants cynically holed up in a hospital and IDF troops who want to stop this army of anti-Semites from attacking their nation and their people. And yet it is presented to us as a mad, bloodlusting invasion of a medical facility by that most psychopathic of nations, Israel.
Browsing the news sites, you get the warped impression that Israel is so insane it sends its troops into perfectly normal hospitals
Hacks are breaking every rule of reporting.
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