The New York Times Couldn’t Find A Starving Gaza Child: So They Used A Sick Kid.
Here we go again.
Fact is, you REALLY don’t hate the corporate media enough.
On Friday The New York Times shocked the world with a front page story about children starving to death in Gaza.
The story was accompanied by a heartbreaking photo of a Palestinian woman cradling her skeletal son. His name, The Times told us, was Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq. The suffering boy is 18 months old and diagnosed with “severe malnutrition.”
The little boy is so thin that his spinal column appears to be poking through his skin.
The story - and especially the photo - supported the left-wing narrative.
Israel bad, Palestinians good.
But it wasn’t long before sleuths in the alternative media - those would be real journalists - uncovered the truth: The child in the photo was suffering from a genetic disorder (it’s been reported he was born with cerebral palsy), something the photographer could have figured out if he’d simply looked at the boy’s sibling: a healthy toddler standing just feet away.
It’s rare to find one brother starving to death and another at a healthy weight during a famine.
Does this mean there is no starvation in Gaza? Absolutely not. Conditions there must be gothic by now. There are reports that the IDF is preventing food aid from entering the war zone. There are also credible reports of Hamas stealing food aid, as they did with international aid during the 18 years they plundered that territory, building tunnels and preparing for war at the expense of the Palestinian people.
But what The Times did with that photo was not journalism. It was pro-Hamas propaganda.
On Tuesday, four days after the deliberately misleading photo was published (did I mention it ran on the front page, above the fold?) the Times printed a correction.
Did they send out the factual information on The New York Times main X account, with 55 million subscribers? Nope. They posted it on The New York Times Communications account, with 89,000 subscribers.
Oldest trick in the newspaper book:
Scream the lie. Whisper the correction.
