Tel Aviv has stepped up indiscriminate attacks against displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza due to the army’s failure to ‘dismantle’ Hamas
When the headline is distorted, and a practical lie, it does a disservice to your message. And in fact makes other sources less credible overall in the media landscape.
This applies to this current genocide, as well as any other media event. People are not dumb, when they see the headline and open the article, they will internalize the distortion. And then when they see future headlines they will interpret it through that lens.
While that is true, the distortion is still far less than with every pro-Israel piece of text I’ve seen recently.
One could say that when you are on the right side, lies impede you, but in fact people are dumb, including people writing headlines. They sometimes think that imitating their adversary is a good thing.
Many of the casualties in the chaos that erupted in Gaza at a food distribution site were killed as a result of aid trucks ramming people as people tried to escape Israeli fire, according to a local journalist in Gaza, Khadeer Al Za’anoun.
Al Za’anoun, who was at the scene and witnessed the incident, told CNN that, though there were large crowds waiting for food to be distributed from aid trucks, the chaos and confusion that led to trampling only started once Israeli soldiers opened fire.
“Most of the people that were killed were rammed by the aid trucks during the chaos and while trying to escape the Israeli gunfire,” he said.
He said that around 20 were killed directly by the gunfire, and the rest were killed under the aid trucks’ wheels.
CNN says 20 people were shot, triggering a stampede that killed a lot more. Where did this site get “thousands”?
Firing into a crowd of thousands*
The number of casualties is going to be different.
The title is “guns down thousands”. That means directly shoots thousands, not 20 in a giant crowd.
Fine.
Doesn’t change the fact that Israel shot at a crowd of starving people.