ABC News is making the wrong kind of headlines.
The network caught a storm of flack Tuesday over a post on the social media platform X about the latest expected return of hostages taken by the terrorist group Hamas during its Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel.
The ABC post labeled some of the hostages “deceased,” a choice of words that ignited the internet.
“BREAKING: Hamas will release the bodies of four deceased hostages on Thursday and six living hostages on Saturday, Hamas and Israel confirmed,” the post said.
“Four more dead hostages will be released next week, according to Israel.”
In a responding post, Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, slammed the deliberately cloudy language.
“Do you mean ‘murdered,’ @ABC?” he wrote.
Lee was far from alone. As of late Tuesday afternoon, the post had been viewed more than 750,000 times and had received more than 1,300 responses. Virtually all of them damned the network’s obfuscation of reality.
The identities of the dead were not included in ABC’s report, but CNN reportedthat two of the four were brothers Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who were 9 months old and 3 years old when Hamas savages captured them during the single deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
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USAID subsidizes MSM left-wing propaganda in general and now this particular episode, the last straw.
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