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News organizations deny advance knowledge of Hamas attack
The Washington Post ^ | November 9, 2023 | Jeremy Barr

Posted on 11/09/2023 6:02:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Several news organizations firmly denied on Thursday that they had advance knowledge of the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, after a pro-Israel media watchdog group suggested that freelance photographers they worked with had been tipped off.

HonestReporting, which says it is dedicated to “exposing and responding to inaccuracies or bias” in media coverage of Israel, published a report Wednesday naming four freelance photographers who it implied had advance knowledge of the Hamas incursion because they had been well-positioned to photograph it.

While not directly accusing the news organizations, the group made insinuations of complicity. “What were [the photographers] doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators?”

CNN, the Associated Press, Reuters and the New York Times, which all published photographs by the freelancers, denied any advance warning of the attack.

But CNN and the AP chose to cut ties with Hassan Eslaiah, one of the freelancers, though they did not specify why. Eslaiah got extra emphasis in the HonestReporting story, which resurfaced a several-years-old photo of him posing with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: enemedia; hamasattacksisrael; israelattacked; israeliranhamaswar; newsorgs; wot

1 posted on 11/09/2023 6:02:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

No one believes a woke journalist. No one.


2 posted on 11/09/2023 6:04:49 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: MinorityRepublican

Evil anti American commies.


3 posted on 11/09/2023 6:05:30 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Da Coyote

I don’t.

Especially since they conveniently had reporters in with Hamas.


4 posted on 11/09/2023 6:05:33 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We remember the Roger Stone arrest. They were there before the cops before daylight because they had a hunch. 🙄


5 posted on 11/09/2023 6:13:25 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: MinorityRepublican

6 posted on 11/09/2023 6:17:50 PM PST by wtd
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To: MinorityRepublican

I remember more than one time where reporters started throwing stones at Israelis and then started filming once they got the “Palis” to start rioting.
So I really don’t believe that they didn’t have advance knowledge.


7 posted on 11/09/2023 6:19:11 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

>> CNN, the Associated Press, Reuters and the New York Times, which all published photographs by the freelancers, denied any advance warning of the attack.

Every single scummy one of those NGOs is lying. They knew there was a scoop coming within minutes of Hamas breaching the border. They were licking their chops over it. Total depraved filth they are.


8 posted on 11/09/2023 6:21:07 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Such reporters should be treated as the equivalent of Gestapo Propaganda teams ... shot on sight ...


9 posted on 11/09/2023 6:34:45 PM PST by BlueLancer (Everyone thinks you were executed. Stay dead - you'll live longer. (A. Breakspear, "Carnival Row"))
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’re lying.
They always lie, about everything.
Not one news organization has credibility.
We need proof, then prosecute them for accomplice to mass murder, mass rape, kidnapping, crimes against humanity, etc.
Make sure EVERYBODY sees the connection between America’s fake news cartel and America’s enemies. They are, in fact, America’s enemies.
These evil enablers must be held accountable, including holding congressional hearings.
When DJT returns, it will be much easier than they think to break these cretins stranglehold on the dissemination of the news.
Use the power of government against them. Appoint a very tough and determined MAGA person to administer the FCC. Tell the fake news conglomerates that if they don’t stop lying, which they do, 24/7, then their license to operate will not just be suspended but confiscated. Of course, they’ll go to the courts, at which time DJT can tell the court the same thing they told him, “You don’t have standing” to interfere. This is an Executive Branch matter, and his word is law, and final.
Bye bye fake news.
I would rat them out for every lie they ever told. It would be time to expose the left, the swamp, the commies, all of them.
Sounds like a pipe dream, but it doesn’t have to be. Fight fire with fire until they cry like the little girls that they are.
There’s no such thing as a decent democrat.


10 posted on 11/09/2023 6:47:04 PM PST by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: Da Coyote

“No one believes a woke journalist. No one.”

I can think of 5 people in my family that STILL think vaccines are ‘safe and effective’.


11 posted on 11/09/2023 7:04:55 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Today’s journalists have the credibility of Hillary Clinton.


12 posted on 11/09/2023 7:21:29 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: MinorityRepublican

I read that one of the ‘freelancers’ was on the back of a motorbike brandishing a grenade. Any “journalist” inside Gaza is not independent by any stretch of the imagination.

Hamas don’t do dat.


13 posted on 11/09/2023 7:29:44 PM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Of course they denied it; ALL MURDERERS DENY THEIR GUILT!


14 posted on 11/09/2023 7:49:49 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: Thapsus_epiphany

Be a shame if a lot of those big shot owners, talking heads, and big name reporters started having serious or maybe even fatal ACCIDENTS wouldn’t it.


15 posted on 11/09/2023 8:04:16 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gee, if only the Post hadn’t LIED TO US FOR YEARS ABOUT A CERTAIN RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA DOSSIER THAT WAS KNOWN TO BE A LIE...AND, YET, THEY PERSISTED.

Oh, Okay, NOW I can believe them.


16 posted on 11/09/2023 8:38:58 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: MinorityRepublican
So these news reporters are not merely rapists of the truth, but maybe plain rapists too.


17 posted on 11/09/2023 8:45:05 PM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Jeremy Barr is jealous he couldn’t be in the front row seat with his hamas buddies


18 posted on 11/09/2023 8:47:39 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Nervous Tick

Every single scummy one of those NGOs is lying. They knew there was a scoop coming within minutes of Hamas breaching the border. They were licking their chops over it. Total depraved filth they are.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It is truly frightening how many millions of people in the West, and especially in the USA, are so easily indoctrinated by the enemy propagandists in the major news media.


19 posted on 11/09/2023 9:05:27 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just watched the Tucker episode where he interviews Andy McKay, aka Ricky Vaughn, who was convicted of tweeting an obviously sarcastic meme telling people to text their vote for Hillary. He was doxed and they theory of his crime put forward by a Huff Post journalist.

That’s what Journalism is now, I guess. To borrow a page from antifa:

AJAB


20 posted on 11/09/2023 11:21:01 PM PST by Vlad0
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