“Israeli ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer slammed CNN for its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Thursday on OutFront, telling host Erin Burnett the network did a disservice to viewers by not providing facts and context in their reports on the violence there,” as spotted by the Washington Free Beacon:
Dermer reminded Burnett Hamas has been using schools, hospitals and other non-military installations as weapon depots.
“It would be a disservice to your viewers for a reporter from Gaza not to mention that in the last week we had two different UNRWA schools where we had actually rockets found in the schools and handed over to Hamas,” he said.
Dermer grew angrier when he mentioned he’d watched two hours of CNN and not heard a single reporter tell the viewers of this practice.
“I have not heard a single person say what I just said to you now, and I think that that does a disservice to your viewers to not give them the context they need to make these judgments,” he said. “Hamas is placing missile batteries in schools, in hospitals, in mosques, and there must be outrage by the world at Hamas to end this.”
I’m forced to watch about a half hour of CNN in the background on the monitor above my treadmill at the local gym each night, and while it’s always been a train wreck, sadly, the events of the past two week have been tailor-made for the only thing left that the low-rated Time-Warner owned network can apparently still do: bash Israel and report on horrific plane crashes.
Say, does anybody know Jeff Zucker’s whereabouts when the Air Algerie flight was shot down over Africa this week…
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