Gaza Hospital Fiasco Offers A Vivid Example Of Journalism's Rot

Gaza Hospital Fiasco Offers A Vivid Example Of Journalism's Rot BY: DAVID HARSANYI

"When news broke yesterday that Israel had bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, killing patients, children, and staff, every “anti-Zionist,” “critic of Israel,” and most big American journalism outfits ran with the horrible story. 

The tale incited worldwide condemnation and recrimination. 

But it wasn’t true. 

Israel did not hit the hospital. 

The Islamic Jihad did. 

Hundreds of people did not die. 

The missile landed in a parking lot. 

It was Hamas disinformation.

• The media’s disastrous failure on the Gaza hospital bombing story is one of the most vivid and instructive examples of the structural and inherent problems plaguing contemporary journalism. 
• It mirrors many other fiascos of the past decade...