The Action Update: All the News That’s Fit to Twist

Over the past few weeks, though really for far longer, the byword in international media coverage of the war in Gaza has been “fiction.” Sorry, we know that’s blunt. But how many times did the New York Times et al. expect to be able to run fraudulent photos and headlines before someone pointed out that the pages of the Grey Lady look a lot more like Al-Jazeera than All the news that’s fit to print. There are several storylines from this week’s news cycle that, thus, bear discussing.