Since the beginning of the latest Israeli assault on the besieged Palestinian enclave, Western news organisations have repeatedly published unsubstantiated claims, told one side of the story and glossed over violence selectively to justify Israel's violations of international law and shield it from scrutiny.
On August 6, 2022, more than a year before Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, in a particularly egregious break from good journalism, The New York Times buried the lede on the deaths of six Palestinian children in its report on a flare in Israel-Gaza fighting. In the report, the journalists waited until the second paragraph to mention that six children were among those killed by Israeli strikes in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and without even breaking the sentence added that Israel said some civilian deaths were the result of militants stashing weapons in residential areas and in at least one case, a misfired Palestinian rocket killed civilians, including children, in northern Gaza.
In journalism schools this is identified as breathless reporting. And it turned out to be wrong reporting too. Ten days later, the Israeli military finally admitted that it was behind the strikes that killed those children in Jabalia. The New York Times did not report this bit as breathlessly.
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