Published November 12, 2023
On October 7, four photojournalists who provide reporting and photos for the likes of the Associated Press (AP), CNN, the New York Times, Reuters, and other outlets were allegedly at the Israeli border with Hamas terrorists who committed acts of atrocities against innocent Israeli civilians that shocked the world. Since an Israel-supporting news watchdog website reported the claim, everyone wants to know if these Gaza-based reporters knew in advance about the attack and, more importantly, if they could have saved lives by alerting the world about it. The question arises: Did the AP, CNN, the New York Times, and Reuters know about the Hamas terror attack in advance?
The allegations have sent major media into panic mode and generated even more mistrust in the corporate press.
The website HonestReporting, which chronicles coverage of Israel by an increasingly one-sided press to contrast the “Pallywood” and crisis actor coverage by Hamas and its agents, asks: “Is it conceivable to assume that ‘journalists’ just happened to appear early in the morning at the border without prior coordination with the terrorists? Or were they part of the plan?”
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SOURCE: www.Pjmedia.com
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Israeli Media Advocate Accepts News Outlets Denials About Hamas Attack
FILE – Journalists observe as Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building after it was struck by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Oct. 8, 2023.
Published November 10, 2023
The executive director of Israeli media advocacy group HonestReporting said on Friday he accepted as adequate the denials by four media organizations that they had no previous knowledge of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, adding he was “so relieved.”
Reuters, The Associated Press, CNN and The New York Times issued adamant denials after HonestReporting published an article on Thursday that questioned whether Palestinian photojournalists had tipped off the four outlets, which had used their images.
HonestReporting’s Gil Hoffman told Reuters his organization had not claimed to know that there had been any prior knowledge by the news groups of the Hamas attack.
“I was so relieved when all four of the media organizations said they didn’t have prior knowledge,” Hoffman said in an interview by telephone about the article.
“We raised questions, we didn’t give answers,” he said. “I still very much think that the questions were legitimate and the answers were adequate from the media organizations themselves.”
He added that there was nothing problematic with the two photojournalists from whom Reuters acquired images.
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SOURCE: www.voanews.com
RELATED: News outlets deny advance knowledge of Hamas attack on Israel
Israeli armored personnel carriers are seen on the Israeli-Gaza border during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Israeli ground forces entered the Gaza Strip as they press ahead with their war against Hamas militants in retaliation for the group’s unprecedented Oct. 7 attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Published November 9, 2023
Several of the world’s leading news organizations are denying having prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, following explosive allegations from a pro-Israel media watchdog this week.
The HonestReporting group published an articleWednesday suggesting several freelance journalists working for The New York Times, The Associated Press, CNN and Reuters either had advanced knowledge of the planned Hamas attack or did not do enough to warn their media companies or government officials about an imminent threat to Israel.
What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? Was it coordinated with Hamas?” the group asked, attaching photos it said showed a number of photographers on the ground near the Israeli border shortly before the attack. “Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and The New York Times, notify these outlets?”
“Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically.”
Throughout the day Thursday, each of the news organizations mentioned in the article responded with forceful denials they had advance knowledge of the attack.
