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Amazing, isn’t it, how little due diligence our major networks perform when it comes to reporting on the war in Gaza. They accept, without questioning, Hamas-supplied figures on the numbers of killed and wounded, and on how many are women and children. They show photographs of “children killed in Gaza” who turn out to have been children killed in Yemen. They show “starving children in Gaza” who turn out to be children “starving” far from Gaza, and some who are not starving at all but have congenital diseases that make them appear to be starving. They conduct interviews with “journalists” who turn out to be members of Hamas; some of those “journalists” have even taken part in the atrocities carried out on October 7, 2023.
Take, for example, ABC’s latest interview with someone in Gaza, a certain Mahmoud Bassal, described by ABC only as an “emergency responder searching for Gazan civilians.” More on Bassal, and ABC’s failure to properly identify him, can be found here: “ABC News Fails to Acknowledge Interviewee Is Hamas Spokesperson,” by Sharon Levy, Algemeiner, October 30, 2025:
In Gaza, every public institution falls under the direct supervision of Hamas-affiliated terrorists. From journalists to the health ministry and civil defense, Hamas has embedded itself in every aspect of life.
In yet another textbook example of terrorists embedded in Gaza’s institutions, the IDF revealed in June 2025 that the “Gaza Civil Spokesperson,” Mahmoud Bassal, is an active Hamas operative.
His words are frequently echoed throughout the media, shaping and distorting the narrative of Israel’s war against Hamas — often without attribution to his Hamas affiliation.
ABC News took that one step further, interviewing Bassal as an emergency responder searching for missing Gazan civilians.
Not once did it cross the interviewers’ minds to do the most basic due diligence a journalist can — a background check on those being interviewed.
ABC News has a responsibility to acknowledge the affiliation of an interviewee, particularly if it is relevant to the story they are covering.
This would have been the case had ABC noted that those searching in the rubble were members of Gaza’s Civil Defense: a Hamas front organization. But ABC didn’t even do that….
How difficult would it have been for the ABC journalists to check with Israeli authorities on the background of Mahmoud Bassal before interviewing him? A phone call would have done the trick. Or they might in two seconds flat have done an internet search for Bassal’s name and found right here that he is a member of Hamas. Why didn’t the ABC interviewer do this?
ABC News owes its audience an explanation and a public clarification.
Amen, sister, amen.
Nothings New about the Awful Broadcasting Company even though Disney bought it but Jafar and the Evil Queen are doing the Broadcasting
“Calculated malice – or a reckless lack of due diligence?”
Coming from ABC it’s probably a mixture of both. After all ABC is part of the TDS media complex.
Only fools believe any of it.
I only listen to network news on the radio and am convinced it is comedy.
I laugh through most of it.
One of my favorite “public service ads” I hear on the cringe inducing Cox outlet in Atlanta has this NGO begging for money to “feed our kids”.
This has to be comedy. It HAS to be.
They go on about “kids going to school hungry”. What do you expect when they have a school breakfast waiting for them when they get there? Should the chirrens be eating two breakfasts? By the looks of them I think that is what is happening.
Non profits/NGOs are the lowest forms of life.