TV News LIES

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto took a shot at former President Trump for spreading falsehoods about hurricane relief money for people in North Carolina, Florida and other states impacted by extreme weather in recent weeks.

“We’ve also got a lot of misinformation, don’t we? We get people who say in North Carolina that if you’re a Republican, you’re not going to get help, if you’re a Democrat, you’ll get help,” Cavuto said Thursday during a conversation with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

“I would imagine that does a huge disservice to people working together and scares the bejesus out of others when they believe it,” he added.

Buttigieg responded, “Absolutely.”

“I mean, one of the things I’m worried about, the false claim that was going on, for example, that had people believing that if you got $750 in immediate help that, you were never going to get anything else,” he said in the interview, first highlighted by Mediaite.

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CNN anchor Chris Wallace took a shot at his former network over its coverage of the last presidential election and the resulting lawsuits the outlet was hit with.

“I had no problem with conservative opinion any more than I do with liberal opinion,” Wallace said during a podcast appearance with Mediaite Editor-in-Chief Aidan McLaughlin. “But what I do have a problem with is conspiracy and lies. The truth is nonnegotiable.”

Wallace, the former host of “Fox News Sunday” who moderated presidential debates and anchored political coverage on the network for years, left the top-rated cable channel in 2021.

He has previously criticized Fox over its controversial but highly-rated opinion programming.

Wallace months after leaving Fox told The New York Times working at the outlet had become untenable for him, saying, “When people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”

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Four Palestinian Journalists, who reported from war-hit Gaza, have officially been nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, highlighting their courageous work in the face of adversity.

The Palestinians Journalists who have been nominated for the Nobel Peace are:

1. Motaz Azaiza
2. Wael Al-Dahdouh
3. Hind Al-Khodari
4. Bisan Odeh (Bisan Owda)

Almost 12 months of unbridled war, death, destruction and suffering in Gaza have proved the deadliest conflict on record for journalists. One year in, NBC News has spoken to 21 media professionals and organizations in the region who described killings, attacks and arrests by Israeli forces.

As of Aug. 31, 116 journalists had been killed since Oct. 7, according to statistics from the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit based in New York. The majority, 111, were Palestinians killed in Gaza, three were Lebanese and two were Israeli journalists killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7. Another 35 have been injured. Other monitoring groups have compiled far higher figures.

The Israeli military has said it “takes all operationally feasible measures to mitigate harm to civilians including journalists” and “it does not deliberately shoot at civilians, including journalists.”

A number of prominent columnists have resigned in protest from the Jewish Chronicle after allegations it printed articles about the Gaza conflict that were based on “wild fabrications”.

The weekly title, the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, is facing calls for an investigation after it deleted nine articles by Elon Perry because of doubts over their accuracy and concerns he had misrepresented his CV.

The sensationalist articles by the former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier allegedly included fabricated claims about Israeli intelligence.