On an episode of the TV program Eretz Nehederet (“A Wonderful Country”), Israel’s version of Saturday Night Live lampooned the BBC for what some say has been one-sided coverage of the war with Hamas.
An actress playing a BBC News anchor reports that “Israel has bombed a hospital, killing hundreds of innocent people.” Then she demands the control room make the on-screen death toll higher.
While funny, widespread anti-Israel news coverage in the real world is shaping opinions and government policies.
The war between Israel and Hamas is raging not only within Gaza but also in newsrooms, and it’s a media war many would say Hamas is winning.
Some major news organizations treat Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, as equal to or worse than Hamas, an internationally designated terrorist group that massacred innocent Israelis.
And some have gotten into trouble by accepting as fact information put out by Hamas.
Gil Hoffman, the executive director of Honest Reporting, a pro-Israel media watchdog, says, “There’s never been a war where the incorrect coverage has been so obvious, where the media has had to apologize over and over again, admit mistakes and have lost their credibility so much, as
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