“Oof. Major goof and journalistic failure on Swisher’s part in May 30th interview with Maher.
After an audio clip from Mehdi Hassan, Swisher asserted that Hassan is “pointing out that the vast majority of people who are being killed are women and children.” Not in that audio clip he didn’t. And if he had, as a journalist it would have been incumbent on Swisher to correct him — because per even UN figures, about half the number is men, and half combined women and children, including teenagers being categorized as children.
The mistaken assertion about the proportion of deaths has been voiced as a propaganda point, but is not actually a fact, and repeating it or even accepting it as an assertion is not appropriate for a journalist.
Otherwise it was a good interview.”
Rachelle A via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/08/24