How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war
Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash.
Working in a kibbutz that was ravaged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, #Otmazgin — a volunteer commander with #ZAKA, an Israeli search and rescue organization — saw the body of a teenager, shot dead and separated from her family in a different room. Her pants had been pulled down below her waist. He thought that was evidence of sexual violence.
He alerted journalists to what he’d seen. He tearfully recounted the details in a nationally televised appearance in the Israeli Parliament. In the frantic hours, days and weeks that followed the Hamas attack, his testimony ricocheted across the world.
But it turns out that what Otmazgin thought had occurred in the home at the kibbutz hadn’t happened.
Beyond the numerous and well-documented atrocities committed by #Hamas militants on Oct. 7, some accounts from that day, like Otmazgin’s, proved untrue.
“It’s not that I invented a story,” Otmazgin told The Associated Press in an interview, detailing the origins of his initial explosive claim — one of two by ZAKA volunteers about sexual violence that turned out to be unfounded.
“I couldn’t think of any other option” other than the teen having been sexually assaulted, he said. “At the end, it turned out to be different, so I corrected myself.”
I am so sad this morning to hear of the passing of my PhD supervisor, co-author, friend and mentor Prof. Greg Philo. We have all lost a brilliant and pioneering scholar of media. A real fighter. I will miss Greg so much. He inspired me, made everyone laugh, was always optimistic and smiling. #gregphilo#media
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Is this what music is turning into? Because yiiiiiiikes.
This is literally money talking and feeling it has been disrespected by someone expressing their opposition to further killing after 35,000+ Gazans (at least half women and children) have already been slaughtered and seen their open air confinement zone razed in reply to the Oct 7 loss of 1,200 Israelis.
We have here a picture of exactly the calculus our politicians are using to assess their larger interests in relation to Gaza.
I wrote up some thoughts about the things newsrooms need to do right now in order to survive the massive search engine and audience squeeze they're experiencing. TLDR: so much of it comes down to creating an open-minded culture of experimentation. #journalism#mediahttps://werd.io/2024/dispatches-from-the-media-apocalypse
Ten artykuł warto przeczytać niezależnie od tego, czy ma się coś wspólnego z dziennikarstwem, czy jest się jedynie odbiorcą.
Szczególnie bym go polecił osobom uważającym, że "zaoranie" kogoś oznacza dobre dziennikarstwo. Obawiam się tylko, że akurat te osoby tego tekstu nie przeczytają. A nawet jeśli, to i tak nie zrozumieją, czemu to nie jest dziennikarstwo, tylko szopka dla gawiedzi.
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