There were reports in the MSM that Sri Lanka’s military shelled a hospital. The qualifiers in the following headline from the The Independent are mind boggling:
'75 die' as Sri Lanka forces are accused of shelling hospital
The death toll is in quote marks, and the thrust of the headline isn't the shelling, but rather the accusation. I don't know what to believe, and I get the sense The Independent isn't confident either. After all, The Indy was perfectly willing to go out on a limb in January when it accused the IDF of shelling a UN school in Gaza with this memorable headline:
In fact, there was no massacre, and UNRWA's Gaza director, John Ging admitted as much to the Globe & Mail.
Do you think The Independent really learned a lesson from Gaza, or is this another example of selective outrage?
