CNN Quietly Changes ‘Deadly But Mostly Peaceful’ Chyron About Hamas Pogrom

90% driving, yelling, and walking around searching for victims, with only 1/10 showing rapes, beatings, mutilations, executions, and abductions.

Atlanta, November 6 – The Cable News Network made a surreptitious effort today to back down from its framing of the Palestinian invasion of southern Israel several weeks ago that killed 1400, wounded more than 3,000, raped hundreds, tortured an unknown number, and involved brutality against Jews that drew comparisons to the depredations of the Islamic State. The network edited its footage of correspondents reporting on the events, changing the on-screen wording to “massacres” when the original had used much gentler language to describe the atrocities.

The Chyron on the CNN clips about the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in and around the Gaza Strip for the first several weeks referred to the event that sparked the war – the worst pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust ended in 1945 – as “deadly but mostly-peaceful” demonstrations by Palestinians against the existence of Israel and Israelis. Editors at CNN defended the initial characterization by noting that most of the videos – shared by the Hamas terrorists themselves – consisted of perhaps 90% driving, yelling, and walking around searching for victims, with only the remaining tenth showing actual violence: rapes, beatings, mutilations, executions, and abductions.

“It’s simple arithmetic,” insisted Global News Editor Jürgen Al-Baghdadi as recently as last Friday. “Barely ten percent of the video documentation shows anything directly violent, which means, indeed, that the operation was ‘mostly peaceful.’ We stand by the formulation of our chyrons.”

That changed this morning, a visit to the CNN online video archive showed. The same videos, as well as the new ones that correspondents and editors have assembled going forward, refer either to a “Hamas Attack” “War in Gaza.” The network declined to address the surreptitious, retroactive edit of the chyrons, or even whether the edited versions addressed the network’s biased editorial approach.

An anonymous source within the CNN newsroom acknowledged the awkwardness. “Backtracking up front would call into question previous editorial decisions and policies,” the source explained. “Making an announcement, issuing a formal correction – those would violate our industry’s longstanding ethic of minimizing reportage on harm to Jews and maximizing reportage of Palestinian suffering. It would go against not just our policy, but our morals, to imply that Palestinians have moral agency and must suffer consequences for their actions, while Israel is to blame for everything even the Palestinians do. My guess is this was the compromise position, making the ridiculous former chyron less ridiculous while still avoiding implying that Israel isn’t to blame for everything.”

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