Recently news broke that Sally Buzbee, a top journalist at the Associated Press (AP), had been chosen by The Washington Post to become a new executive editor at the ultra-liberal paper.
The only problem? Buzbee and the AP have recently been caught in a massive scandal regarding their involvement with the Palestinian terror group ‘Hamas.’
As The Washington Free Beacon reports:
The controversy began on May 15 after Israeli airstrikes destroyed the Jala Tower in Gaza City. The 12-story complex was home to a number of Hamas operations, including weapons manufacturing and military intelligence, as well as the Associated Press and other media organizations. According to national security expert Noah Pollak, the AP’s local reporters knew of the terrorist group’s presence in the office building.
Buzbee denied the AP, which has maintained offices in the Jala Tower for 15 years, was ever aware of the Hamas operations in the building, and demanded an independent investigation into the matter. “We are in a conflict situation,” Buzbee said in an interview with the AP. “We do not take sides in that conflict. We heard Israelis say they have evidence; we don’t know what that evidence is.”
The AP’s denials notwithstanding, evidence suggests the organization’s due diligence was less than thorough. Matti Friedman, a former AP correspondent based in Jerusalem, has written extensively about his experiences covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the ground. In a 2014 article published in the Atlantic, for example, Friedman explained how news coverage of the region was often shaped by an “informal alliance” between media organizations and Palestinian terrorist groups.
“The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby—and the AP wouldn’t report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas,” Friedman wrote. “Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it.”
Will The Washington Post attempt to retain its journalist credibility by refusing to work with a journalist with alleged ties to a murderous terrorist group? Or will it simply do what it has always done: takes sides against America and Israel
More evidence that fake news will go to any length to lie or mislead or misrepresent the truth!
This is the whole problem with the news media. They are or if not align themselves with the radicals they are supposed to be reporting about. The enemies of Freedom are writing the narratives.