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CNN Host Left Stunned As IDF Confirms Israel Hit Refugee Camp With Airstrike (newrepublic.com)
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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed at a lost of words at the justification being used to bomb a refugee camp in Gaza.

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[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wolf sucks. The IDF guy is admitting to mass murder right in front him and everyone. No self-respecting journalist would let it slide like that.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean "Let it slide"? He repeatedly pressed the guy on the point. He cut the spokesman off when he tried to change the subject. He stayed on the point about Isreal bombing innocents for as long as he reasonably could, and refused to accept any of the evasive and weasely answers the spokesman tried to give him.

What exactly do you want here? For him to scream at the guy, call him a murderer, tell him he's going to burn in hell? That's not journalism, that's self-indulgence. Wolf was doing exactly what a good journalist should do, trying to get to the truth of the story, and he only gave up when he'd gotten as far as he could from this particular avenue.

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He could have questioned the certainty that a specific Hamas guy was even present in (or under, I guess) the camp in order to make the admission of guilt more specific. For example: https://twitter.com/martyrmade/status/1719572283436782057?t=UM-uSl5z89Ua4uaw0p2-xw&s=19

Other follow up questions might include "who specifically ordered the airstrike?" and "if you wanted to minimize civilian casualties, why conduct an airstrike on a refugee camp at all?".

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And those follow up questions may well have been asked, if they hadn't lost sound on the call. But regardless of how you think you might have handled it, there was nothing wrong with the angle Wolf took here. He kept the focus squarely on the horrific nature of the decision and refused to let the guy weasel out of it.

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not so credulous to believe that they really lost sound, but okay.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Cool. Enjoy your tinfoil hat bud.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"There was a hamas commander so we dropped a giant bomb on a refugee camp full of women and children."

"It sounds like I'm hearing you dropped a bomb on a refugee camp full of woman and children to kill a hamas commander."

"No. Uhh, tunnels. Complicated situation."

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 3 points 1 year ago

Wild to watch this CNN elder short circuit because he can't figure out how to make the narrative fit.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he didnt let it slide?

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 3 points 1 year ago

To me it seemed like he was struggling to give the IDF guy an out and make it fit the narrative.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No self respecting anybody would be called "Wolf Blitzer" like what kind of dumbass childish crap is that