Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday that evidence suggested a misfired rocket was the likely cause of an explosion that resulted in heavy casualties at a hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17.
The truth matters for the historical record, but it wasn’t a lie like the other poster said; it was at worst a false conclusion. Instead of treating this like a reasonable mistake, though, they’re cooking up conspiracy theories to assign malicious intent to what is pretty clearly just a result of the fog of war.
If it was a mistake. I’m reserving judgement until there’s an actual forensic investigation and a truth-and-reconcilliation commission for Israel’s crimes.
I would argue the truth always matters not just in hindsight. The news making such a blunder in reporting will just makke it easier for future reports to be poopooh’ed away as “fake news”.
In this case the news jumped on the bandwagon without knowing what was going on and that is just stupid, as this conflict has enough evidently disgusting things happening where there is less or no ambiguity in who did what.
People do not need excuses to accuse something of being fake news. Also, there really weren’t a lot of reporters that actually reported this as an Israeli airstrike - they mostly just reported about the claims that were being made of an Israeli airstrike, but tried to stay neutral.
Though yes, some jumped to conclusions. Reasonable conclusions in my opinion, but that’s bad reporting.
But if truth matters, then we shouldn’t react to bad reporting with wild and speculative claims about people lying to make Israel look bad.
Well the initial reporting was that it was Israël, it was updated a few hours later to more generic language, but the push notification I got then was " Israël kills 500 in bombing of Gaza hospital".
Your comment on fake news is correct… I used a hyperbolic term often used by the MAGAettes et al. I more meant to say is that the average person will be more able to ignore all the reporting because such a big and horrific event turned out to be less cut and dry than initially reported.
Reasonable conclusions… I tend to disagree as both sides are skilled manipulators of the truth, and both have shown to have no qualms of doing this on the backs of dead children.
I tend to trust the internet osint community more than the mainstream media, as the online sleuths usually add the supporting information to their claims.
And your last point I agree to completely, we should not be jumping to conclusions or making wild accusations. Both sides of the conflict (so not the civilians caught between them) seem to be grade A assholes.
The truth matters for the historical record, but it wasn’t a lie like the other poster said; it was at worst a false conclusion. Instead of treating this like a reasonable mistake, though, they’re cooking up conspiracy theories to assign malicious intent to what is pretty clearly just a result of the fog of war.
If it was a mistake. I’m reserving judgement until there’s an actual forensic investigation and a truth-and-reconcilliation commission for Israel’s crimes.
I would argue the truth always matters not just in hindsight. The news making such a blunder in reporting will just makke it easier for future reports to be poopooh’ed away as “fake news”.
In this case the news jumped on the bandwagon without knowing what was going on and that is just stupid, as this conflict has enough evidently disgusting things happening where there is less or no ambiguity in who did what.
People do not need excuses to accuse something of being fake news. Also, there really weren’t a lot of reporters that actually reported this as an Israeli airstrike - they mostly just reported about the claims that were being made of an Israeli airstrike, but tried to stay neutral.
Though yes, some jumped to conclusions. Reasonable conclusions in my opinion, but that’s bad reporting.
But if truth matters, then we shouldn’t react to bad reporting with wild and speculative claims about people lying to make Israel look bad.
Well the initial reporting was that it was Israël, it was updated a few hours later to more generic language, but the push notification I got then was " Israël kills 500 in bombing of Gaza hospital".
Your comment on fake news is correct… I used a hyperbolic term often used by the MAGAettes et al. I more meant to say is that the average person will be more able to ignore all the reporting because such a big and horrific event turned out to be less cut and dry than initially reported.
Reasonable conclusions… I tend to disagree as both sides are skilled manipulators of the truth, and both have shown to have no qualms of doing this on the backs of dead children.
I tend to trust the internet osint community more than the mainstream media, as the online sleuths usually add the supporting information to their claims.
And your last point I agree to completely, we should not be jumping to conclusions or making wild accusations. Both sides of the conflict (so not the civilians caught between them) seem to be grade A assholes.