NRO has posted a long article by Zach Kessel and Ari Blaff on mainstream media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. They find that the Washington Post’s coverage ranks as the worst. According to Kessel and Blaff, “While other U.S. outlets have on occasion fallen into the trap of credulously parroting Hamas propaganda, none as prominent have done so with the frequency and brazenness of the Post…” They make an impressive case, but mostly without the comparative analysis that would make it definitive.

The Post vies for recognition as the worst along with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the news agencies such as the Associated Press. Each in its own way plugs for Hamas. The most notable fact (as I think it is) is how bad they all have proved themselves to be in this conflict and other such cases. Their performance is regularly worse than pathetic.

[I think the WSJ has done better than the WaPo, but that’s a low bar. From the very beginning of this conflict, American media (and more broadly, Western media) have taken Hamas propaganda at face value while casting skepticism on anything Israel or the IDF has to say. The al-Ahli hospital “strike” may be the most infamous example in this war, but their entire coverage is predicated on Hamas being a “government” on one hand and in the same breath treating Gazans as somehow entirely separate from anything Hamas does. It’s absurd. — Ed]