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Reason
Liz Wolfe

Media Got the Hospital Story Wrong

That hospital bombing narrative so many people seemed so sure about yesterday? It totally fell apart.

"Hundreds of people were feared dead after an explosion at a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 17," reads the New York Times' updated reporting, which tellingly leans on passive voice. "Hamas, which controls Gaza, blamed the blast on an Israeli airstrike," says the Times. "Israel said it was caused by an errant rocket fired by another armed group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which denied the assertion."

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