Like everyone else here, I’m grateful for all the support readers are showing during this webathon. One of the nice things about this campaign is that it lets me acknowledge and promote some of the good work my colleagues have been doing – which often consists, as I write on the homepage, of challenging the lazy consensus of the rest of the media.
For example:
In October, just ten days after Hamas committed its massacre in Israel, much of the press — the New York Times, the AP, the BBC — fell for the group’s claim that Israel had killed hundreds of Palestinians in a strike against a hospital. NR didn’t buy it. We kept pointing out that there weren’t hundreds of casualties, and for that matter there was no Israeli strike. And we kept correcting the record when other journalists, and Democratic politicians, sustained the lie.
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