The reporting on the war in Israel is hitting a new height of incompetence.
As if the hospital debacle wasn’t bad enough, recently CNN took things to a whole new level of stupid.
They have a severe geography problem.
The network displayed a map of Israel while discussing aid, and the highlighted cities of Tel Aviv and Sredot were in the wrong place.
Before going any further, we posted a map of Israel below (using Google Maps) to show it’s not hard to get this right.
Welp, the wizards of smart over at CNN threw up this image during a segment.
They don’t only lie.
They can’t even show a proper map of #Israel.
FYI @CNN:
1) #TelAviv is located on the beach.
2) Sderot is nearby #Gaza.
You can’t deliver correctly even the simplest things & you wish us to believe a lot more difficult stuff you report on!?#IStandWithIsrael pic.twitter.com/Mhnw1xE5hI— Ariel Aharonovich (@AAharonovich) October 22, 2023
Things didn’t go much better at MSNBC after IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus ran circles around Yasmin Vossoughain.
MSNBC’s @yasminv tries to draw a false parity between Israel and Hamas, falsely suggesting Israel is using indiscriminate “rocket fire” to hit women and children like Hamas.
IDF spox @jconricus sets her straight, noting that Hamas targets civilians, while the IDF works to warn. pic.twitter.com/xHO5LiVMdo— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 23, 2023
CONRICUS: And I just want to say one thing when it comes to data coming out of Gaza. Please keep in mind that everything that comes out of Gaza is not verified independently. It is information decimated by Hamas and that Hamas are the equivalent of ISIS when it comes to truthfulness (crosstalk).
Then Vossoughian got really mad when Conricus challegened Hamas narrative.
VOSSOUGHIAN: Sir, Colonel, are you disputing the number of people that have been killed in Gaza? The number of women and children. Are you disputing that, are you saying that’s not accurate?
CONRICUS: I am definitely questioning each and every piece of information that comes out of the Hamas-controlled so-called Ministry of Health. Each and every piece of information, and I’ll give you an example. The first report (crosstalk).
VOSSOUGHIAN: But many of these, Colonel, are being reported by independent journalists that are in the region as well.
In a follow-up, @yasminv scoffs at the idea that the IDF is trying to follow the laws of war.
She gets triggered when @jconricus calls into question the fake casualty numbers put out by Hamas.
He also calls out MSNBC for parroting Hamas’s lies about the hospital blast. pic.twitter.com/u14cXQynbz— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 23, 2023
