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AP Writes Puff Piece on Hezbollah ‘Victims’ of Israeli Pager Attack
Andrew Stiles
August 6, 2025

The Associated Press reached new heights of terrorist sympathy on Wednesday by publishing a compassionately credulous report on “the human toll of Israel’s exploding-pagers attack targeting Hezbollah,” the Iranian-funded terrorist group. The AP contacted the Hezbollah public relations department and was given the contact information of several “victims” of the September 2024 attack who agreed to discuss their “slow, painful path to recovery.”…Doing what comes naturally, the AP makes sure to note that the United Nations, a thoroughly unserious organization, and other so-called human rights groups have denounced Israel’s attack—without a doubt the most precisely targeted anti-terrorism operation in history—as an “indiscriminate” war crime. READ MORE

FREE PRESS The Editors: Mistakes at ‘The New York Times’ Only Go in One Direction On Tuesday evening, The New York Times quietly added an editors’ note amending their front-page story on hunger in Gaza from last week. The note and what it admits—about the story, the paper, and how this war has been covered by the media—deserves a lot more attention than it’s received, as does the actual state of hunger in Gaza. The initial story, titled “Gazans Are Dying of Starvation,” quickly rocketed around the internet when it was published on July 24. It was featured on the front page of the paper the following day, with a photo of a sick child being cradled in his mother’s arms. READ MORE

CAMERA BLOG When Journalists Become the Story On July 21, 2025, the Society of Journalists for Agence France Presse (AFP) put out a dramatic press release  about the imminent deaths due to starvation of “the last reporters in Gaza.” The press release referred to the heartbreaking cries of AFP employees who no longer have the physical capacity to work due to starvation, and mentioned 10 reporters — one freelance writer, three photographers, and six freelance videographers – who would die in the absence of intervention…  Missing from the crescendo of rising condemnation was criticism of Hamas for intercepting and disrupting the distribution of humanitarian aid or of the UN for rejecting offers by the Israeli and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to collaborate on distributing food and humanitarian aid to Gazans…