Matti Friedman: When We Started to Lie
Journalists observe the Israeli military operation in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank on August 29, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh via Getty Images)
I watched as the goal of mainstream journalism shifted from describing reality to ushering readers to the correct political conclusion.
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Exactly ten years ago, during an Israel-Hamas war that seemed major at the time but seems minor now, I published two essays describing my time reporting on Israel for the Associated Press. “Is there anything left to say about Israel and Gaza? Newspapers this summer have been full of little else,” I wrote at the time. “Television viewers see heaps of rub…
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