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Israeli doctor compared killing Palestinians in Gaza to 'eliminating cockroaches'
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this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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Or, you know, ACTUAL journalists:
https://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/11/mystery-mintpress-news/
"To date, MintPress’ sole moment in the national/international spotlight was a public relations disaster. It involved a hair-on-fire scoop, namely that it was the anti-Assad rebels who had inflicted chemical weapons on Syrian civilians, not Assad’s military.
Unfortunately for MintPress, the blockbuster imploded almost immediately. The bylined reporter, Dale Gavlak, demanded her name be removed from the story. She asserted that it was actually written by an unnamed Syrian colleague and was never verified, which the Strib’s Jon Tevlin reported in 2013. (Tevlin also contacted Muhawesh’s father-in-law, a local business man/adjunct professor at St. Thomas who denied being the money behind MintPress.)
Though MintPress could be considered another relatively obscure website with its own particular/peculiar agenda, it has gained a profile in the Twin Cities due to Muhawesh’s energetic self-promotion. Campuses like Augsburg have brought her in to speak on the question of balance in coverage of the Middle East. A spokeswoman at Augsburg said they knew little more about Muhawesh than that she is the publisher of MintPress, a site sympathetic to Arab issues."
Failed fact checks, conspiracy theories, "look at meeee!" publicity seeking behavior... They're a joke of a site, not a news organization.
So what? https://www.npr.org/2005/11/11/5008692/judith-miller-defends-her-reporting-at-the-times
Judith Miller was not the publisher causing the problems, that is the case with MintPress.
Stop defending shitty sources.