Here is how Time magazine's Karl Vick reported on the massacre of Israelis last weekend in this week's print edition.
Nowhere in the article does it say that hundreds of Israeli civilians were murdered.
It mentions a Hamas "assault" and "raid" that shocked Israelis. The third to last paragraph mentions that they "opened fire" at a concert. No deaths are mentioned explicitly. It only says that some were taken hostage.
The next to last paragraph implies, but doesn't say, that there were some "deaths of civilians" that may or may not have happened during this incident.
There is no mention of a single outrageous act of terror. No mention of teams of terrorists invading homes. No mention of babies slaughtered in their beds. No mention of the grandmother shot and then videoed with her own phone and posted to her Facebook. No mentions of pools of blood or stabbings or shootings in kibbutzim or the word "slaughter" that every single other Western media outlet reported on. No humanization of the victims. No mention of the victims. And the only implication that this may have been an outrageous terror attack is at the very end of the article.
This isn't "burying the lede." This is hiding the lede. It is the most irresponsible excuse for journalism I've ever seen.
Someone who gets all their news from Time would have no idea what happened except that Israelis are shocked over...a "raid" and "surprise attack" of some sort.
I should have done this long ago, but I canceled my subscription to this piece of trash.
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