Last week, NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf published a piece about journalists in Gaza. Among many problematic points in the piece, she said the following:
“Israel’s military has also killed many of the Palestinian journalists in Gaza – 189, according to the CPJ – saying, often without providing evidence, that they are members of Hamas.”
There are two major problems with this assertion. First, as we have shown, again and again and again and again (this is by no means exhaustive of our coverage), the CPJ is not a reliable source for any respectable journalist or outlet. Anyone who continues to cite them, as NPR does here, should not be taken as a serious or reliable source of information.
Second, the evidence is not missing. It is published, and some of it comes from CPJ itself.
CPJ revised its own list of supposed Gazan journalists killed in the war, admitting that some were combatants, which means even the organization cited by NPR admits there was at least some evidence. Embedded below is our ongoing list of terrorists remaining on the CPJ list even after their audit. The best evidence is what terrorist organizations say themselves, and there is plenty of it.
NPR can continue to use unreliable sources, and ignore plain and simple evidence if they choose, but if they do why would anyone rely on NPR’s coverage of Gaza, or really anything else?
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