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This week the NYT likely misreported a geopolitical event and ran a misleading photo to go with it.

NYT Uses Photo of Wrong Location for Hospital Story by David Zweig on Substack

U.S., Experts Say Evidence Suggests Palestinian Militants’ Rocket Hit Gaza Hospital (WSJ)

The NYT has run a kind of response.

This makes me think of Putin’s failed assault on Kyiv. Putin has succeeded in getting many thousands of people killed, but his initial goal of the invasion was not achieved. Putin was 70 years old when he thought he could take Kyiv in 2022. He had photos in mind, but probably with the old kind of newspaper reporting and Soviet-style control over media. Now every villager holds up an iPhone and livestreams marauding soldiers. However, if you go to the Wikipedia timeline of events, you can see how important “traditional” journalism still is. Sources include the New York Times and Al Jazeera (based in Doha, Qatar). Paying for journalism affects the world. Saying what journalists “should” be doing without paying for any newspaper subscriptions has less of an effect I would think.