Fair and balanced?

In three sections of the same pre-Christmas New York Times, there are 32 pro-Palestine photos and one puzzling photo of an Israeli family in mourning.

Dec. 22, 2024 / JNS)

Here’s what “fair and balanced” coverage means today.

The cover of the Dec. 22, 2024 New York Times magazine features the Pieta-like figure of a Gaza mother holding her son. It’s a carefully crafted “Pallywood” version of Michaelangelo’s sculpture. The photograph appears in somber black and white and titled: “Escape From Gaza.” The subtitle is: “The war is nearly impossible to flee—except for a small number of sick and wounded who are offered a dramatic path to safety.”

This actually goes beyond the pope’s keffiyeh-clad baby Jesus because, inside, in addition to the cover photo, are 22 pages (!) of additional photos, also in black and white, documenting the slow and weary flight of “grievously wounded Gazans” on their way to Abu Dhabi. The accompanying texts damn Israel in monstrous ways.
That Gazan civilians were purposefully put in harm’s way by Hamas/Iran is
never mentioned. The entire offering is entirely without context and is meant to inflame public hatred for Israel ever further.Here’s what the caption tells us: “Each patient arrives not only not only with injuries but with a chapter of this ugly war’s history. On Jan. 24, Reem Elian says, Israeli soldiers shot up her home in Khan Younis, killing her son, a pharmacist, and injuring her, her other sons, and sister-in-law. After the attack, Elian says, soldiers interrogated the survivors for hours, but when she asked for an ambulance, they refused. She made it to a hospital on foot, bleeding and hopping on one leg.”

I cannot even begin to quote from the other captions, which concern children…

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