Media Manipulating Public on Israel-Hamas War: Lee Smith

The journalist/author says an Obama-era echo chamber of media, think tanks, and experts is spreading disinformation about the ongoing conflict.

People inspect the area of Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, where Palestinians were reportedly killed in a blast that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other, and where Palestinians who fled their homes were sheltering amid the ongoing conflict, on Oct. 18, 2023. (Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters

Inaccurate media reporting has fueled the flames of division over the Israel-Hamas War amid confusion about an explosion at a Gaza City hospital.

After U.S. officials backed Israel’s assertion of innocence in the blast, major news outlets that relied on Hamas’s version of events—like the New York Times—have been forced to issue corrections, albeit quietly and begrudgingly.