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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5735586" data-attributes="member: 48469"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/pageoneplus/editors-note-gaza-hospital-coverage.html" target="_blank">Editors’ Note: Gaza Hospital Coverage - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</a>October 23, 2023&quot;On Oct. 17, The New York Times published news of an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City, leading its coverage with claims by Hamas government officials that an Israeli airstrike was the cause and that hundreds of people were dead or injured. The report included a large headline at the top of The Times’s website.Israel subsequently denied being at fault and blamed an errant rocket launch by the Palestinian faction group Islamic Jihad, which has in turn denied responsibility. American and other international officials have said their evidence indicates that the rocket came from Palestinian fighter positions.The Times’s initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the blast. However, the early versions of the coverage — and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels — relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified. The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5735586, member: 48469"] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/pageoneplus/editors-note-gaza-hospital-coverage.html']Editors’ Note: Gaza Hospital Coverage - The New York Times (nytimes.com)[/URL] October 23, 2023 "On Oct. 17, [B]The New York Times published news of an explosion at a hospital in Gaza[/B] City,[B] leading its coverage with claims by Hamas [/B]government officials that an Israeli airstrike was the cause and that hundreds of people were dead or injured. The report included a large headline at the top of The Times’s website. Israel subsequently denied being at fault and blamed an errant rocket launch by the Palestinian faction group Islamic Jihad, which has in turn denied responsibility. [B]American and other international officials have said their evidence indicates that the rocket came from Palestinian fighter positions.[/B] The Times’s initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the blast. However, the [B]early versions of the coverage [/B]— and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels — [B]relied too heavily on claims by Hamas[/B], and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified. The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was." [/QUOTE]

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